St Ignatius High School metro station

St. Ignatius High School

O52 徐匯中學
St. Ignatius High School; O52 徐匯中學
	St. Ignatius High School station platform 2
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	徐匯中學
Simplified Chinese	徐汇中学
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Xúhuì Zhōngxué
Bopomofo	ㄒㄩˊ ㄏㄨㄟˋ ㄓㄨㄥㄒㄩㄝˊ
Hakka
Pha̍k-fa-sṳ	Chhì-fi Chûng-ho̍k
Southern Min
Tâi-lô	Tshî-hūi Tiong-hak
General information
Location	B1, No. 3, Zhongshan 1st Rd.; Luzhou, New Taipei; Taiwan
Operated by	Taipei Metro
Line(s)	Zhonghe–Xinlu line (O52); Circular line (Y24);
Connections	Bus stop
Construction
Structure type	Underground
History
Opened	3 November 2010
Passengers
	daily (December 2020)
Rank	63 out of 109
Services
Future service

The Taipei Metro St. Ignatius High School station is a station on the Zhonghe–Xinlu line located in Luzhou District, New Taipei, Taiwan. The station opened on 3 November 2010. It will be a transfer station with the Circular Line in 2029.

Station overview[edit]

This three-level, underground station is located at the intersection of Jixian Rd. and Zhongxian 1st Rd.^[2] and opened on 3 November 2010 with the opening of the Luzhou Line.^[3]^[4]

Construction[edit]

Excavation depth for this station is around 32 meters. It is 151 meters in length and 23 meters wide.^[5] It has two entrances, one emergency exit, one accessibility elevator, and two vent shafts.^[3] Exit B is integrated with a joint development building.

For the Circular Line station, the platform level has already been set aside (according to the current station layout).^[6]

Station Design[edit]

The theme for the station is "Reeds Swaying in the Moonlight", as part of a common theme of egrets for the Luzhou Line.^[3]

Station layout[edit]

Street Level	Entrance/Exit	Entrance/Exit
B1	Concourse	Lobby, information desk, automatic ticket dispensing machines, one-way faregates
		Restrooms (South side of station outside fare zone, near exit 1)
B3	Platform 1	← Zhonghe–Xinlu Line toward Luzhou (O53 Sanmin Senior High School)
	Island platform, doors will open on the left
	Platform 2	→ Zhonghe–Xinlu Line toward Nanshijiao (O51 Sanhe Junior High School) →

Exits[edit]

Exit 1: St. Ignatius High School
Exit 2: Yongan N. Rd., Sec. 2

Around the station[edit]

Luzhou Post Office
St. Ignatius High School
Yongfu Elementary School
Nicaragua Park
Bihua Cloth Street

References[edit]

^ "Passenger Volume at Taipei Rapid Transit Stations". Taipei Mass Rapid Transit Co., Ltd. 2021-01-15.
^ "St. Ignatius High School Station". Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation. Retrieved 2010-11-06.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Introduction to Luzhou MRT Line" (PDF). Department of Rapid Transis Systems. 2007-12-01. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-11-29. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
^ "Second Stage of Taipei MRT (Approved MRT Lines)". Department of Rapid Transit Systems, TCG. 2010-03-12. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
^ "Introduction to the MRT Luzhou Line". Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation. 2010-11-01. Retrieved 2010-11-24.
^ "St. Ignatius High School Station Information Map" (PDF). Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-11-22. Retrieved 2010-12-31.