The Linkou Line ( Chinese : 林口線 ; pinyin : Línkǒu Xiàn ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī : Nâ-kháu Soàⁿ ) was a railway branch line in Taiwan operated by the Taiwan Railways Administration . It was located in Taoyuan County and New Taipei City . The Linkou line was suspended from operation in December 2012.
4-531: The railroad was originally built to transport coal to the Linkou Power Plant and was opened on January 1, 1968. But owing to the traffic policy of Taoyuan County, the local government made this line available for passenger service on October 27, 2005. Passenger service on the Linkou Line ended on December 28, 2012, followed by freight services on December 31, 2012, due to the grade-separation of
8-618: Is a coal-fired power plant in Linkou District , New Taipei , Taiwan . With the previous total installed capacity of 600 MW, the power plant used to be the smallest coal-fired power plant in Taiwan. The power plant is currently undergoing retrofitting to increase its installed generation capacity to 2.4 GW. The power plant began its operation on 18 July 1968 after a successful train run of its first 300 MW giant electric generator which started two weeks before. On 1 September 2014,
12-481: The northern section of the TRA Taiwan Trunk Line . While still in operation, service was only on work days, excluding government holidays. This Taiwanese rail-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Linkou Power Plant The Linkou Power Plant ( traditional Chinese : 林口發電廠 ; simplified Chinese : 林口发电厂 ; pinyin : Línkǒu Fādiànchǎng )
16-425: The current two unit generators were decommissioned. On 6 October 2016, the plant completed its refurbishment of its old two units and commissioned the new one supercritical unit of 800 MW. On 24 March 2017, the second of the 800 MW unit was commissioned. One 800 MW ultra supercritical coal-fired unit has been built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and CTCI Corporation at the plant. On 24 October 2019,
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