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Bannan line

{{Short description|A MRT Route in Great Taipei Metropolitan}}

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{{Infobox rail line

| name = Bannan line

| color = {{rcr|Taipei Metro|BL}}

| mapcolor = Blue

| logo = Taipei Metro Line BL.svg

| logo_width = 38px

| other_name = Blue Line

| image = Exit 6, Ximen Station 20210323.jpg

| image_width = 300px

| caption = Ximen metro station, located in Ximending, Taipei

| type = Rapid transit

| locale = Taipei and New Taipei, Taiwan

| start = {{stl|Taipei Metro|Dingpu}}, {{stl|Taipei Metro|Far Eastern Hospital}}

| end = {{stl|Taipei Metro|Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center}}, {{stl|Taipei Metro|Kunyang}}

| stations = 23

| routes = {{plainlist|

  • Dingpu–Nangang Exhib. Center (full)
  • Far Eastern Hospital-Kunyang (short-turn)

}}

| open = {{start date|1999|12|24|df=y}}

| operator = Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation

| character = Underground

| depot = {{plainlist|

  • Nangang
  • Tucheng

}}

| stock = {{plainlist|

}}

| linelength = {{convert|26.6|km|mi|1|abbr=on}}

| tracks = 2

| gauge = {{track gauge|sg|allk=on}}

| speed = {{convert|80|km/h|abbr=on}}

| electrification = {{750 V DC|conductor=y}}

| map = {{Bannan line RDT|inline=y}}

| map_state = collapsed

}}

{{Infobox Chinese

| t = 板南線

| s = 板南线

| p = Bǎnnán Xiàn

| t2 = 板橋南港線

| s2 = 板桥南港线

| p2 = Bǎnqiáo Nángǎng Xiàn

| altname3 = Blue line

| t3 = 藍線

| s3 = 蓝线

| p3 = Lán Xiàn

| tp3 = Lán Siàn

| w3 = Lan2Hsien4

| tl3 = Nâ Soàⁿ

| phfs3 = Làm Sien

| altname = Banqiao–Nangang line

}}

The Bannan or Blue line (code BL) is a metro line of Taipei Metro in Taipei, Taiwan, with a total of 23 stations serving the districts of Nangang, Xinyi, Daan, Zhongshan, Wanhua, Banqiao and Tucheng. The line's name is a portmanteau of Banqiao and Nangang.

The entire line runs underground. The excavation of tunnels using the cut-and-cover method resulted in large scale detouring of road traffic. Because of that, the line runs beneath existing roads and totals {{convert|28.3|km|mi|abbr=on}}.

Overview

Service on this line is divided into a full-length service from {{stl|Taipei Metro|Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center}} to {{stl|Taipei Metro|Dingpu}}, as well as a shorter service from {{stl|Taipei Metro|Kunyang}} to {{stl|Taipei Metro|Far Eastern Hospital}}.

Due to {{stl|Taipei Metro|Taipei City Hall}} being at the centre of the Taipei 101 New Year's festivities, intervals between trains can be reduced to a minimum of 135 seconds, transporting up to 39,000 passengers per hour.{{cite news|url=http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/local/taipei/2010/12/23/284807/Taipei-City.htm|title=Taipei City promises faster New Year MRT|publisher=The China Post|date=2010-12-23|access-date=2010-12-23|archive-date=16 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170416220732/http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/local/taipei/2010/12/23/284807/Taipei-City.htm|url-status=live}} This results in an average of about 27 trains per hour on the line during peak hours.

History

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  • 8 November 1990: The Nangang section begins construction.
  • 30 December 1991: The Taipei Main Station western underground passageway opens.
  • 24 December 1993: Nangang section construction at the intersection of Zhongxiao East Rd and Shaoxing Rd caves in, causes traffic jams.
  • 30 October 1998: Construction is completed on the tunnel between Kunyang and Houshanpi.
  • 17 September 2001: Typhoon Nari floods many stations, rendering them nonoperational.
  • 29 November 2001: Taipei Main Station re-opens for service.
  • 30 December 2003: The Nangang section eastern extension to {{station|Nangang}} begins construction.
  • 17 November 2004: The Nangang section eastern extension to {{stl|Taipei Metro|Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center}} begins construction.
  • 21 May 2014: The 2014 Taipei Metro attack occurs between Longshan Temple and {{stl|Taipei Metro|Jiangzicui}} when 21-year-old university student Cheng Chieh attacked passengers with a knife, leading to 4 deaths and 24 injuries.
  • 28 September 2018: Half-height platform edge doors are installed in Tucheng, making all stations on this line and entire Taipei Metro system have some form of platform doors.

= Stations =

class="wikitable"

|+Bannan Line stations timeline

!Date

!Description

!Remarks

24 December 1999

|Taipei City Hall to Longshan Temple

| rowspan="3" |Revenue Service

31 August 2000

|Longshan Temple to Xinpu

30 December 2000

|Kunyang to Taipei City Hall

27 May 2006

|Banqiao to Tucheng

|Trial Service

31 May 2006

|Xinpu to Yongning

|Revenue Service

16 May 2008

| rowspan="2" |Taipei Main Station to Nangang

|Trial Service

25 December 2008

| rowspan="3" |Revenue Service

27 February 2011

|Nangang to Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center{{cite news |date=2011-02-24 |title=MRT Nangang extension to start operations |publisher=Focus Taiwan News Channel |url=http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/WebNews_Detail.aspx?ID=201102240036&Type=aLIV |access-date=2011-02-24 |archive-date=8 August 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120808062040/http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/WebNews_Detail.aspx?ID=201102240036&Type=aLIV |url-status=live }}

6 July 2015

|Yongning to Dingpu

Services

As of December 2017, the typical off-peak service is:

  • 8 trains per hour (tph) between {{stl|Taipei Metro|Far Eastern Hospital}} and {{stl|Taipei Metro|Kunyang}}
  • 7 tph between {{stl|Taipei Metro|Dingpu}} and {{stl|Taipei Metro|Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center}}

Stations

class="wikitable sortable"

|+

! colspan="3" |Services

! rowspan="2" |Code

! colspan="2" |Station Name

! rowspan="2" |Travel time to previous station (s){{cite web|url=https://data.gov.tw/dataset/61792|title=臺北捷運系統相鄰兩站間之行駛時間、停靠站時間 {{!}} 政府資料開放平臺|website=data.gov.tw|language=zh|access-date=4 October 2019|archive-date=7 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191007145554/https://data.gov.tw/dataset/61792|url-status=live}}

! rowspan="2" |Stop time at station (s)

! rowspan="2" |Date opened

! rowspan="2" |Transfer

! rowspan="2" |Districts

! rowspan="2" |City

colspan="2" |Normal

!Night

!English

!Chinese

bgcolor=#{{rcr|Taipei Metro|BL}}

| colspan="11" |

●

|

|

|{{Color|#{{rcr|Taipei Metro|BL}}|BL01}}

|{{stl|Taipei Metro|Dingpu}}

|{{lang|zh-Hant-TW|頂埔}}

|{{n/a}}

| rowspan="9" |25

|2015-07-06

|{{rint|newtaipei|LB}} (constructing)

| rowspan="4" |Tucheng

| rowspan="9" |New Taipei

●

|

|

|{{Color|#{{rcr|Taipei Metro|BL}}|BL02}}

|{{stl|Taipei Metro|Yongning}}

|{{lang|zh-Hant-TW|永寧}}

|180

|2006-05-31

|{{rint|taipei|lg}} (Pitang) (constructing)

●

|

|

|{{Color|#{{rcr|Taipei Metro|BL}}|BL03}}

|{{stl|Taipei Metro|Tucheng}}

|{{lang|zh-Hant-TW|土城}}

|95

|2006-05-31

|{{rint|taipei|lg}} (constructing)

●

|

|

|{{Color|#{{rcr|Taipei Metro|BL}}|BL04}}

|{{stl|Taipei Metro|Haishan}}

|{{lang|zh-Hant-TW|海山}}

|106

|2006-05-31

| rowspan="3" |N/A

●

|●

|●

|{{Color|#{{rcr|Taipei Metro|BL}}|BL05}}

|{{stl|Taipei Metro|Far Eastern Hospital}}

|{{lang|zh-Hant-TW|亞東醫院}}

|142

|2006-05-31

| rowspan="5" |Banqiao

●

|●

|●

|{{Color|#{{rcr|Taipei Metro|BL}}|BL06}}

|{{stl|Taipei Metro|Fuzhong}}

|{{lang|zh-Hant-TW|府中}}

|92

|2006-05-31

●

|●

|●

|{{Color|#{{rcr|Taipei Metro|BL}}|BL07}}

|{{station|Banqiao}}

|{{lang|zh-Hant-TW|板橋}}

|89

|2006-05-31

|{{Rint|newtaipei|Y}} (out of station) {{Rint|tw|TRA}} {{Rint|tw|THSR}}

●

|●

|●

|{{Color|#{{rcr|Taipei Metro|BL}}|BL08}}

|{{stl|Taipei Metro|Xinpu}}

|{{lang|zh-Hant-TW|新埔}}

|102

|2000-08-31

|{{Rint|newtaipei|Y}} ({{stl|Taipei Metro|Xinpu Minsheng}})

●

|●

|●

|{{Color|#{{rcr|Taipei Metro|BL}}|BL09}}

|{{stl|Taipei Metro|Jiangzicui}}

|{{lang|zh-Hant-TW|江子翠}}

|74

|2000-08-31

|N/A

●

|●

|●

|{{Color|#{{rcr|Taipei Metro|BL}}|BL10}}

|{{stl|Taipei Metro|Longshan Temple}}

|{{lang|zh-Hant-TW|龍山寺}}

|190

|28

|1999-12-24

|{{Rint|tw|TRA}} ({{rws|Wanhua}})

|Wanhua

| rowspan="14" |Taipei

●

|●

|●

|{{Color|#{{rcr|Taipei Metro|BL}}|BL11}}

|{{stl|Taipei Metro|Ximen}}

|{{lang|zh-Hant-TW|西門}}

|103

|30

|1999-12-24

|{{Rail-interchange|taipei|3}}

|Zhongzheng, Wanhua

●

|●

|●

|{{Color|#{{rcr|Taipei Metro|BL}}|BL12}}

|Taipei Main Station

|{{lang|zh-Hant-TW|台北車站}}

|132

|40

|1999-12-24

|{{Rint|taipei|R}} {{Rint|taoyuan|mrt}} {{Rint|tw|TRA}} {{Rint|tw|THSR}}

| rowspan="2" |Zhongzheng

●

|●

|●

|{{Color|#{{rcr|Taipei Metro|BL}}|BL13}}

|{{stl|Taipei Metro|Shandao Temple}}

|{{lang|zh-Hant-TW|善導寺}}

|64

|30

|1999-12-24

|N/A

●

|●

|●

|{{Color|#{{rcr|Taipei Metro|BL}}|BL14}}

|{{stl|Taipei Metro|Zhongxiao Xinsheng}}

|{{lang|zh-Hant-TW|忠孝新生}}

|76

|28

|1999-12-24

|{{Rint|taipei|O}}

|Daan, Zhongzheng

●

|●

|●

|{{Color|#{{rcr|Taipei Metro|BL}}|BL15}}

|{{stl|Taipei Metro|Zhongxiao Fuxing}}

|{{lang|zh-Hant-TW|忠孝復興}}

|84

|40

|1999-12-24

|{{Rint|taipei|BR}}

| rowspan="2" |Daan

●

|●

|●

|{{Color|#{{rcr|Taipei Metro|BL}}|BL16}}

|{{stl|Taipei Metro|Zhongxiao Dunhua}}

|{{lang|zh-Hant-TW|忠孝敦化}}

|63

| rowspan="4" |28

|1999-12-24

| rowspan="6" |N/A

●

|●

|●

|{{Color|#{{rcr|Taipei Metro|BL}}|BL17}}

|{{stl|Taipei Metro|Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall}}

|{{lang|zh-Hant-TW|國父紀念館}}

|67

|1999-12-24

|Xinyi, Daan

●

|●

|●

|{{Color|#{{rcr|Taipei Metro|BL}}|BL18}}

|{{stl|Taipei Metro|Taipei City Hall}}

|{{lang|zh-Hant-TW|市政府}}

|72

|1999-12-24

| rowspan="2" |Xinyi

●

|●

|●

|{{Color|#{{rcr|Taipei Metro|BL}}|BL19}}

|{{stl|Taipei Metro|Yongchun}}

|{{lang|zh-Hant-TW|永春}}

|82

|2000-12-30

●

|●

|●

|{{Color|#{{rcr|Taipei Metro|BL}}|BL20}}

|{{stl|Taipei Metro|Houshanpi}}

|{{lang|zh-Hant-TW|後山埤}}

|73

|30

|2000-12-30

|Nangang, Xinyi

●

|●

|●

|{{Color|#{{rcr|Taipei Metro|BL}}|BL21}}

|{{stl|Taipei Metro|Kunyang}}

|{{lang|zh-Hant-TW|昆陽}}

|99

| rowspan="2" |25

|2000-12-30

| rowspan="3" |Nangang

●

|●

|

|{{Color|#{{rcr|Taipei Metro|BL}}|BL22}}

|{{station|Nangang}}

|{{lang|zh-Hant-TW|南港}}

|105

|2008-12-25

|{{Rint|tw|TRA}} {{Rint|tw|THSR}}

●

|●

|

|{{Color|#{{rcr|Taipei Metro|BL}}|BL23}}

|{{stl|Taipei Metro|Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center}}

|{{lang|zh-Hant-TW|南港展覽館}}

|114

|{{n/a}}

|2011-02-27

|{{Rint|taipei|BR}}

bgcolor=#{{rcr|Taipei Metro|BL}}

| colspan="11" |

References

{{commons category|Taipei Metro Blue Line}}

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