Kengkou metro station

Metro station in Taoyuan City, Taiwan

25°5′11.5″N 121°15′59.1″E / 25.086528°N 121.266417°E / 25.086528; 121.266417

Preceding station	Taoyuan Metro			Following station
Airport Terminal 1 towards Laojie River		Taoyuan Airport MRT Commuter		Shanbi towards Taipei Main Station

Kengkou (Chinese: 坑口站; pinyin: Kēngkǒu Zhàn) is a station on the Taoyuan Airport MRT located in Luzhu District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan.^[1] The station opened for commercial service on 2 March 2017.^[2]

Station overview

This elevated station has two island platforms and four tracks, although Express trains do not currently stop at this station.^[3] The station is 108.0 metres (354.3 ft) long and 35.8 metres (117 ft) wide. It opened for trial service on 2 February 2017, and for commercial service 2 March 2017.^[4]^[2]

It will be a future transfer station with the Green line (G32) of Taoyuan Metro.

History

2017-03-02: The station opened for commercial service with the opening of the Taipei-Huanbei section of the Airport MRT.^[5]

Station overview

2F	Platform 1	Reserved for Luchu Depot (not in service)
	Island platform, doors open on the right
	Platform 2	← Airport MRT toward Huanbei (Airport Terminal 1)
	Platform 3	→ Airport MRT toward Taipei (Shanbi) →
	Island platform, doors open on the right
	Platform 4	Reserved for Luchu Depot (not in service)
Street Level	Station lobby, connecting concourse	Entrance/Exit, information counter Automatic ticket machines, faregates, restrooms

Around the station

Kengkou Painted Village (坑口彩繪村) (about 850 meters north of the station)

Exits

Exit 1: Southwest of Kengguo Rd.

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kengkou Station (Taoyuan).

^ "Kengkou Station". Taoyuan Metro. 15 February 2015. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
^ ^a ^b "Airport MRT begins commercial operations". The China Post. 2017-03-02. Retrieved 2017-03-02.
^ "A11車站立體圖 Floor Plan". Taoyuan Metro. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
^ "Airport MRT to begin commercial operations". The China Post. 2017-03-02. Retrieved 2017-03-02.
^ Shan, Shelley (2 March 2017). "Airport MRT to officially launch today". Taipei Times. Retrieved 2 March 2017.