Memory down Taiwan rail imprint black years

If be forced to leave one's hometown old miners revisit, they may either sitting on the Keelung river fishing, or sit in the railway smoking. Their descendants to romance, have continued to play here, love, those black days at most only their wedding on the background.

Flat Creek train station

Flat Creek Street, a quiet life. The track is money the baton, can link the two, promote economic prosperity. The track is a time machine, can break through the space-time, dim hazy days. Reality such as movies, the local train had been always a story, for example, be fatigued with the journey of the Keelung river. A narrow-gauge railway, Japanese-style house, abandoned coal mine, the train is oneTaiwanBlack gold period picture.

Flat Creek railroad

If be forced to leave one's hometown old miners revisit, they may either sitting on the Keelung river fishing, or sit in the railway smoking. Their descendants to romance, have continued to play here, love, those black days at most only their wedding on the background.

The site tour

Flat Creek Station

Flat Creek Station little sister Zhang Junya running in the street, I walked into the flat Creek in the gentle breeze.

The God does not cooperate, this time the fog shrouded, people can not see the distant orbit. Although the spacious office on the platform, but also do not see a train attendant horn. Through the railway, Po one or two bends, went to the old neighborhood. Very few pedestrians, narrow streets, and occasionally a car slowly drove. The street clean slate Road on both sides of the street, and the door was ajar grocery store, cake food time-honored, reminiscent of the familiar TV advertising picture: "little sister Zhang Junya, your home noodles are cooked, you limit your grandma a minutes hurry back......"

Flat Creek Street

Run home crossroads right at the little sister Zhang Junya, the end is a souvenir shop still open in Taiwan. The shopkeeper is a middle-aged women, after asking, across a small road, she has two shops, a little old shop is handed down from the ancestors, now has more than sixty or seventy years of history, in Taiwan famous flower cloth.

Thanks to the lantern gave, flat Creek has become popular all over the Taiwan dream. Legend because the flat Creek is located in remote mountains, early into the development of Han, often by the bandits killed, and the traffic is very inconvenient, Time Bandits village, people used to hide in the mountain, then "Sky Lanterns" to mutual safe. Later, this practice spread slowly down, gradually evolved into a unique local customs, especially during the Spring Festival and the lantern,, and, the ground is thousands of viewers up lanterns, spectacular.

Near noon, the sky was dark and grey. A group of southern Taiwan youth, pick lanterns in the dim light, and wrote "the coming year end of the single life" desire. They laugh and walk to the railway central, then with great care to put lanterns flying. If the uphill walk up along the street, you will see an old post office, said here the mailbox has long years. Fortunately, may also encounter wearing presbyopic glasses, a little deaf old postman. Outsiders often walks into a post office has been out of print, buy old Taiwan postal souvenirs, such as stamps and mail car model.

Go on, turn up the steps, across the temple, is abandoned Observatory and the shelter. They together with the flat Creek Branch Railway together, are a legacy of the times. The air-raid shelter in the distribution of a Buddism godness Guanyin Rock Hill, the height is not a, interlinked, the mountain wall and wall are covered in brown moss. The site is located in a Buddism godness Guanyin Hill lookout rock later, along the mountain road walk randomly, you can see the woods loomed a red brick building, four columns support a square top.

Flat Creek Station, as its name indicates, it is said that long long ago, our ancestors in the reclamation have the creek bed for the road, and the upper reaches of the Keelung river rapids rapids, did not expect a flat Creek Village here, but more gradual clear streams, so called flat creek. Flat Creek, even the train is quiet. Because the sky lanterns, and the old postman approached, we almost missed the train bound for Jing tong.

Jing Tong Station

Jing Tong Station Ping Xi area is the most typical coal mining industry aggregation tribe, is the terminal station, but also the originating station.

Here from the flat Creek Station less than two kilometers, it takes half an hour to walk, take the train as long as 5 minutes can be arrived at. This was for the cyanine wild Tung, so called Jing tong. Compared with the flat Creek Station, Jing Tong station more small market.

Jing Tong Station is also the line all stations in the most ancient place flat Creek: Japanese ancient wooden building site, mine, there are ancient railway equipment, including the red flag, hand phone, mining the most typical flat Creek area gathered tribes. Said the little train station has a history of nearly 80 years, milk white wooden buildings, gray tiles covered with moss, is the most beautiful in Pingxi line in the train station.

In history, because the sun mineral company belongs to stone bottom coal mine and coal size pithead Jing Tong were developed, and built the Pingxi railway, here is completely out of the agricultural ecological transition to mining tribe.

Can't imagine, heyday, Jing Tong's population had reached more than 5000 people. Now, lively scene of the past has not seen, even when the old miners revisit, only in the vicinity of the station of old building to reminisce. Though the prosperous small market, but not noisy. Come from the Rueifang ride the small traders to get off here, open the door to do business. FromTaipeiCame to the Taiwan student used to get off here, put here as a rest stop, drink a cup of tea sitting one afternoon, or sitting on the rail side whispered talk about life, talk about the future.

They all came out, coincidentally, color the train stopped suddenly let small platform extremely crowded, passengers suddenly and not the least trace was found. The whole track, was only stopped moving, small train.

Not far from the miners dining room is open, but has not done a miner's business. Has now become a decoration simple small restaurants, small food supply is nostalgia, sour bamboo shoots marinated egg and meat, rice, soup is a continuation of the previous miners taste, slightly salty, a bowl of it, have enough.

Very station

Very station does not exist a "very happy" story, the station fascination derives its name.

Is the original meaning is "ten", refers to ten families work together to build homes here. If it is not well prepared, I shall start with most stories written in the book the hero and heroine, thought and it adjacent to the next station, happiness must be named. It is understood that, every year around Taiwan still have a lot of young men and women come, experience does not exist "very happy" story.

Seen Hsiao-Hsien Hou's film "dust in the wind" of the people, in the very should be able to find the exact sense of happiness and a sense of regret: uniformed "childhood sweetheart", hand in hand walking on the tracks to...... Then they began to make a living in Taipei, a far enlisted soldier, a Yun is married to every day to help them to send love letters.