Woke up early today to get ready for a new day adventure. After much research, I decided we shall explore 平溪 area today. Pingxi line, is a single track branch Line, it runs through Ruifang (瑞芳） to Jing Tong (菁桐）.
I read about releasing of sky lanterns (天灯） in Shifen (十分） and the waterfall there, visiting Pingxi old street (平溪老街） etc. Thus am excited to explore this train line of what is left of Taiwan 3 most scenic railways.
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| Ditched the leggings today. whaha |
Took a train from Taipei(台北） to Ruifang （瑞芳）where we would then board the Pingxi line train. From Taipei, it takes bout 45min to reach Ruifang, along the way, we camwhore a bit and admire the scenery as we both were asleep the last time we travel on this line in 2010. Ruifang is also the nearest station to 九份 , having been there before, we were no strangers to this station.
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| Train stopping at opp track |
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| As we pulled out of 八堵 |
Was snapping away as we travelled towards Ruifang. As its a weekday morning, the train is pretty empty with most of the people travelling to Taipei for work instead of out of it.
The thing we noticed about trains in Taiwan is, we are allowed to consume food on it, seen some people munching their breakie as they travel to work. But the thing is after eating, they would hold on to the wrappers and dispose it properly after disembarking from the train. Hence the train is as clean as our Singapore version though they are allow to consume food onboard.
Wow, I mean really wow they could have thrown it onboard out of convenience but nope, Taiwanese people are so well behaved that I couldnt even find tissue paper thrown on the floor of their trains. Really IMPRESSED.
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| Check out how clean their trains are |
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| Sunny day |
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| Part of Keelung river, approaching Ruifang station |
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| Random photo of some settlements near Ruifang town |
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| Love this photo :) |
Upon reaching Ruifang, do not exit the concourse, instead, go straight to the counter near the exit. This is where we brought the train tickets for Pingxi line, each pax cost NTD 52 (SGD 2.30). It allows unlimted rides on Pingxi line, all you have to do is keep the tix with you.
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| Tickets for PingXi line |
I have done some research before this trip and thus is able to coordinate the time of our arrival and minimizes the waiting time for PingXi Line train. Hubs is not the most patient guy on earth and prolonged of waiting will bring out his uglier side that I dun wan to see. On the other hand, as we need to cover a few places on this line, timing is essential.
Also, if time is scarce, it would be wiser to check the timetable of the trains since trains on Pingxi Line is not that frequent.
This is 1 useful link I found while researching.
http://twtraffic.tra.gov.tw/twrail/English/e_index.aspx#
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| While waiting for the train to come |
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| Couple colour tops..Unintentionl one. heheh |
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| Coal transport train passing by!! |
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The train arrived shortly after we finished our camwhoring, though it was a weekday, there was quite a crowd taking PingXi line. A group of elderly was aso with us, guess it is 1 of their day trip:) Journey time from Ruifang to Shi Fen(十分）which is our 1st stop is ard 25min.
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| Boarding the train |
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| Interior of the train- different from the long distance 1 we took to RuiFang |
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