Nangang Station

Nangang 南港
Nangang Station Building
Location	No. 380, Sec.7, Zhongxiao E. Rd. Nangang, Taipei Taiwan
Operated by	Taiwan Railway Administration Taipei Rapid Transit System Taiwan High Speed Rail
Line(s)	West Coast (097)      HSR (NAK)      Line 5 (BL22)
Distance	19.1 km from Keelung
Connections	Bus stop
Construction
Structure type	At-Grade/Underground
Other information
Classification	一等 (Taiwan Railways Administration level)
History
Opened	TRA: July 20, 1899 (original) September 21, 2008 (underground) Metro: December 25, 2008 THSR: July 1, 2016
Traffic
Passengers	Metro: 26,908 daily (2016) TRA: 13,809 daily (2014) THSR: 8,695 daily (2016) (HSR)

Nangang Station (Chinese: 南港車站; pinyin: Nángǎng Chēzhàn) (formerly transliterated as Nankang Station until 2003) is a major railway station located in Nangang, Taipei, Taiwan, parallel to Zhongxiao East Road. The station serves several modes of public transportation, including the bus system, Taiwan Railway Administration, and Taipei Metro (Nangang Line). The station is also the terminus of the Taiwan High Speed Rail as of July 2016. The current underground Nangang Line station was the last one in the Taipei Metro that was built without platform screen doors.

Nangang Station was originally built by the Japanese during Japanese rule of Taiwan in 1899 to support local industries and the growing population. Since then, the station has been upgraded three times to support tremendous growth: in 1905, in 1966 (due to the KMT moving the ROC government to Taiwan), and in 1986-1987 (to accommodate increased passenger traffic and new cargo traffic).

As with most urban train stations in Taipei, Nangang Station is currently being converted from a surface station to an underground station as part of the TRA's Taipei Railway Underground Project, an effort to move existing surface railways from Songshan Station to east of Nangang Station underground to accommodate growing traffic and economic development in Nankang Software Park. Existing TRA platforms were successfully moved underground on September 21, 2008. The 7.6-km tunnel project cost NT$76.5 billion. The high-speed rail extension to the station will open for service by mid-2016.