The south-link railway electrification project will enter its most crucial stage soon, Wen Tai-hsin, chief secretary of the Railway Reconstruction Bureau, announced. The Railway Reconstruction Bureau will start to install cables inside the 42 tunnels that cover 40.8 kilometers of the overall 123.4-km rail section, which connects Taitung County and Pingtung County.
Between September 2017 and June 2019, working hours on the south-link project will increase from 5 to 10 hours at a time during certain periods, to take into account the tunnel work, he said. Previous work has focused more on getting the basic infrastructure ready, including track upgrades and reinforcement of surrounding slopeland.
Commercial operation of the fully electrified train network is expected in 2020 upon completion of the south-link project, and the fastest train from Taipei to Taitung will take only 3.5 hours, either via the west coast or the east coast, according to the Ministry of Transportation and Communications.
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