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Pingtung line
One of the two partially double-track railway in Taiwan along with South-link line.
The Pingtung Line (Chinese: 屏東線; pinyin: Píngdōng Xiàn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Pîn-tong Soàⁿ) is a line of the Taiwan Railway Administration West Coast line in Taiwan.
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It is 61.3 km (38.1 mi) long, of which 36.1 km (22.4 mi) is double track.[2]
The section between Nanzhou and Linbian railway stations will be upgraded from a single-track railway to a double-track railway in December 2019 while the section between Chaozhou and Nanzhou, and the section between Linbian and Fangliao is expected to remain in single-track.[3]
Taiwanese government stated in 2007 that it reserved the possibility to upgrade the entire section to dual-track railway when the number of travelers through Pingtung Line reaches a certain level [4]