[2025 Keelung Attraction] Travel Guide for Liu Mingchuan Tunnel (Updated Feb)
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The Shiqiuling Tunnel, also known as the Liu Mingchuan Tunnel, has a total length of 235 meters, which is low in the south and high in the north. During the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, Liu Mingchuan, the governor of Taiwan, devoted himself to the construction of Taiwan, and in the thirteenth year of the Guangxu period, he was approved to establish the Taiwan Railway Bureau of Commerce. In the railway project, the Shiqiuling Tunnel was made of hard rocks in the north and soft soil in the south. The construction process was very difficult, and even many British and German engineers were hired as consultants, and finally the first railway tunnel in Taiwan was successfully opened.
Address:
No. 129號, Chongde Rd, Anle District, Keelung City, Taiwan 204
Recommended sightseeing time:
2 hours
Phone:
+886 2 2422 4170#385
Ticket Price
Free entry
Taiwan's First Railway Tunnel, the Liu Mingchuan Tunnel
Location: No. 129, Chongde Road, Anle District, Keelung City
Introduction: The Liu Mingchuan Tunnel is a city-designated historic site, also known as the Shiqiuling Tunnel. During the eleventh year of the Guangxu Emperor's reign, Liu Mingchuan, the Governor of Taiwan, actively developed Taiwan, promoted the Westernization Movement, and advocated for the establishment of railways.
In the thirteenth year of Guangxu, he was granted permission to establish the 'General Bureau of Railways and Commerce of Taiwan'. The first section from Keelung through Taipei to Hsinchu was constructed, among which the tunnel project at Shiqiuling in Keelung was the most challenging. Work began in the spring of the fourteenth year of Guangxu and was not completed until the summer of the sixteenth year, taking a total of thirty months to break through; the Shiqiuling Tunnel is approximately 235 meters long, the first railway-exclusive tunnel in Taiwan, and the only railway tunnel from the Qing Dynasty period.
Tickets: Free
Experience: Taiwan's first railway tunnel holds significant historical value and meaning. In an era when technology was not advanced, the ability to carve such a tunnel can truly be described as conquering nature. It is well worth a visit.
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