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A former station on the Taitung Line (臺東線), opened in 1916 as Hatsune (初音停車場), in what is now Jian, Hualien. It was renamed more than once, becoming Nanhua (南華車站) in 1957 and finally Gancheng in 1989, named after the village it served. Dwindling passenger numbers led to its closure in 1994. The surviving marble-faced station building, which dates to around 1990, is now used by a local community association and railway maintenance crews.
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- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
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- Railways in Taiwan (臺灣鐵路建設)
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I am a web application developer, photojournalist, urban explorer, and history enthusiast passionate about the open web and documenting my experiences on this planet. This project was founded in the early 2010s and has evolved into a sort of personal Wikipedia of places that interest me (and often the photographs I’ve taken there). I’m originally from Toronto, Canada, but spend most of my time residing in Taiwan.