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Xinma

新馬車站
Xinma; 新馬車站
Train station
General information
Location	Su'ao, Yilan County, Taiwan
Coordinates	24°36′55.14″N 121°49′22.32″E / 24.6153167°N 121.8228667°E
Owned by	Taiwan Railways Administration
Operated by	Taiwan Railways Administration
Line(s)	Eastern Trunk line
Train operators	Taiwan Railways Administration
Other information
Station code	068; ㄒㄇ
History
Opened	22 November 1920
Passengers
	0 daily (2023)
Services

Xinma (Chinese: 新馬車站; pinyin: Xīnmǎ Chēzhàn) is a railway station on the Taiwan Railways Administration Yilan line. It is located in Su'ao Township, Yilan County, Taiwan.

History

The station was opened on 22 November 1920. The current station building was opened on 31 December 1970. Its distance between Su'aoxin Station is only 0.9km, the shortest distance between railway stations in Taiwan.

On 21 October 2018, a train derailment occurred at Xinma Station, killing 18 people and injuring 187.^[2] Due to the accident, the station was closed to passenger service on 31 May 2022 to reroute the Yilan line to a shallower curve.^[3]

Structure

Sinma Station has a simple reinforced concrete structure building. The station is staffless and managed by nearby Su'aoxin Station.

Around the station

Wulaokeng Scenic Area

References

^ Taiwan Railway Corporation (June 2024). "表6 各站客貨運起訖量 Table 6 Volume of Passenger & Freight Traffic". 中華民國112年臺灣鐵路統計年報 Statistical report of Taiwan Railways -2023- (Report) (in Chinese (Taiwan) and English). Taiwan Railway Corporation. pp. 20–31. Archived from the original on 2024-05-22. Retrieved 2024-08-16.
^ By Yong Xiong, Mimi Hsin Hsuan Sun and Sheena McKenzie (21 October 2018). "At least 18 dead and 178 injured in Taiwan train derailment". CNN.
^ "交通部臺灣鐵路管理局". 2022-05-09. Archived from the original on 2022-05-09. Retrieved 2023-09-13.