Songjiang Nanjing Station

Songjiang Nanjing 松江南京
Songjiang Nanjing Station exits 2 and 3
Location	B1, No. 126, Songjiang Rd. Zhongshan, Taipei Taiwan
Operated by	Taipei Rapid Transit System
Line(s)	Line 3 (G17)      Line 4 (O12)
Connections	Bus stop
Construction
Structure type	Underground
History
Opened	November 3, 2010
Traffic
Passengers	25,189 daily (2011)[1] (Ranked 47th of 89)

Songjiang Nanjing Station
Traditional Chinese	松江南京站
Postal	Sungkiang Nanking Chan
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Sōngjiāng Nánjīng Zhàn Bopomofo ㄙㄨㄥ ㄐㄧㄤ ㄋㄢˊ ㄐㄧㄥ ㄓㄢˋ Wade–Giles Sung^1-chiang^1 Nan^2-ching^1 Chan^4 Tongyong Pinyin Sōngjiāng Nánjīng Jhàn Southern Min Hokkien POJ Siông-kang Lâm-kiann Chām Tâi-lô Siông-kang Lâm-kiann Tsām

The Taipei Metro Songjiang Nanjing Station (Chinese: 松江南京站; pinyin: Sōngjiāng Nánjīng Zhàn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Siông-kang Lâm-kiann Chām) is a station on the Xinzhuang Line located in Zhongshan District, Taipei, Taiwan. It is a transfer station between the Xinzhuang Line and Songshan Line. The station opened on November 3, 2010 for traffic on the Xinzhuang Line, and Songshan Line services opened on November 15, 2014.

Station overview

This underground station^[2] has an island platform and has two side platforms for the Songshan Line.^[3] It is located beneath the intersection of Songjiang Rd. and Nanjing East Rd. (hence the name of the station), and opened in November 2010 with the opening of the Luzhou Line and the Taipei City section of the Xinzhuang Line.^[4][5]

Construction

Excavation depth for this station was around 29 meters for the Xinzhuang Line station and 20 meters for the Songshan Line station. The Xinzhuang Line station is 191 meters in length and 32 meters wide, while the Songshan Line station is 202 meters in length and 26 meters wide.^[6] It has eight entrances, two accessibility elevators, and four vent shafts.^[4] Two of the entrances and a vent shaft are integrated with joint development buildings. One entrance is integrated with the Council for Economic Planning and Development building. The station is equipped with platform screen doors for both lines.

Public Art

The theme for the Songshan Line station is "Metropolitan Images of Daily Life" (都會眾生相).^[6] It uses four elements (earth, fire, water, wind) to present surreal situations of the combination of city and nature.

• Earth: Business in the City Jungle
• Fire: University in a Flash
• Water: Office Under the Sea
• Wind: Coffee Shop Floating in the Clouds

History

• June 1, 2003: Construction began on the station.
• November 3, 2010: The station opens for service with the opening of the Xinzhuang Line.
• November 8, 2014: Songshan Line platforms were opened temporarily for visitors.^[7]
• November 15, 2014: Songshan Line opened for services.

Station layout

Songjiang Nanjing Station Platform 2

Songjiang Nanjing Station Platform 4

Street Level	Entrance/Exit	Entrance/Exit
B1	Connecting Level	Lobby, information desk, automatic ticket dispensing machines, one-way faregates
		Restrooms (Inside fare zone, outside fare zone near Exit 1, 2, 6, 7)
B2	Passage Level	Escalators, elevators to Concourse and Platform levels
	Side platform, doors open on the right
	Platform 3	←   Line 3 toward Songshan (Nanjing Fuxing)
	Platform 4	→   Line 3 toward Xindian/ Taipower Building (Zhongshan) →
	Side platform, doors open on the right
	Passage Level	Escalators, elevators to Concourse and Platform levels
B4	Platform 1	←   Line 4 toward Luzhou/ Huilong (Xingtian Temple)
	Island platform, doors will open on the left
	Platform 2	→   Line 4 toward Nanshijiao (Zhongxiao Xinsheng) →

Exits

• Exit 1: Yijiang St.
• Exit 2: Changan Junior High School
• Exit 3: Changan Junior High School
• Exit 4: Yitong Park
• Exit 5: Jianguo N. Rd. Sec. 1
• Exit 6: Jianguo N. Rd. Sec. 2
• Exit 7: Siping Sunshine Shopping District
• Exit 8: Songjiang Rd.

Around the station

• Embassy of Panama
• Evergreen Laurel Hotels (Taipei)
• Siping Street Shopping District
• State Visitor Changchun Theater
• Yitong Park
• The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (between this station and Xingtian Temple Station)
• Datong High School
• Zhong Shan Girls High School
• Chang-an Junior High School
• Changchun Elementary School
• Museum of Jade Art
• Suho Paper Memorial Museum

Preceding station		Taipei Metro		Following station
Nanjing Fuxing toward Songshan		Line 3 Songshan		Zhongshan toward Xindian
Xingtian Temple toward Huilong or Luzhou		Line 4 Xinzhuang		Zhongxiao Xinsheng toward Nanshijiao

References

1. "Passenger Volume at Taipei Rapid Transit Stations" (PDF). Taipei City Department of Transportation. 2012-01-20. Retrieved 2012-02-05.
2. "Songjiang Nanjing Station". Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation. Retrieved 2016-04-14.
3. "捷運松山線工程特色". Department of Rapid Transit Systems. 2006-11-01. Retrieved 2010-11-22.
4. "Introduction to Xinzhuang MRT Line" (PDF). Department of Rapid Transis Systems. 2008-03-01. Retrieved 2010-06-18.
5. "Second Stage of Taipei MRT (Approved MRT Lines)". Department of Rapid Transit Systems, TCG. 2010-03-12. Retrieved 2010-06-18.
6. "捷運系統松山線簡介" (PDF). Department of Rapid Transit Systems. September 2010. Retrieved 2010-11-22.
7. Gerber, Abraham (November 9, 2014). "Residents sneak a peek at new MRT transfer station". Taipei Times. Retrieved November 9, 2014.

Coordinates: 25°03′07″N 121°31′59″E / 25.052003°N 121.533042°E