{"id":136471,"date":"2025-12-18T16:19:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T08:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gjtaiwan.com\/new\/?post_type=product&#038;p=136471"},"modified":"2026-04-13T23:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T15:34:13","slug":"the-twilight-years-of-taiwans-sugar-railways","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.gjtaiwan.com\/new\/product\/the-twilight-years-of-taiwans-sugar-railways","title":{"rendered":"The Twilight Years of Taiwan\u2019s Sugar Railways"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"product_title entry-title show-product-nav\"><strong>The Twilight Years of Taiwan\u2019s Sugar Railways<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div class=\"product-nav\">\n<div class=\"product-prev\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-136476\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gjtaiwan.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/598293384_1478917614243296_1823581613205334458_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"657\" height=\"854\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gjtaiwan.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/598293384_1478917614243296_1823581613205334458_n.jpg 657w, https:\/\/www.gjtaiwan.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/598293384_1478917614243296_1823581613205334458_n-308x400.jpg 308w, https:\/\/www.gjtaiwan.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/598293384_1478917614243296_1823581613205334458_n-615x800.jpg 615w, https:\/\/www.gjtaiwan.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/598293384_1478917614243296_1823581613205334458_n-600x780.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 657px) 100vw, 657px\" \/><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-136472\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gjtaiwan.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766045249599.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1038\" height=\"661\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gjtaiwan.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766045249599.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gjtaiwan.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766045249599-628x400.jpg 628w, https:\/\/www.gjtaiwan.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766045249599-600x382.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1038px) 100vw, 1038px\" \/><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-136473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gjtaiwan.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766045274601.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1040\" height=\"658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gjtaiwan.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766045274601.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gjtaiwan.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766045274601-632x400.jpg 632w, https:\/\/www.gjtaiwan.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766045274601-600x380.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1040px) 100vw, 1040px\" \/><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-136474\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gjtaiwan.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766045296413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1038\" height=\"658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gjtaiwan.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766045296413.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gjtaiwan.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766045296413-631x400.jpg 631w, https:\/\/www.gjtaiwan.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766045296413-600x380.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1038px) 100vw, 1038px\" \/><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-136475\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gjtaiwan.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766045309634.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1039\" height=\"658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gjtaiwan.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766045309634.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gjtaiwan.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766045309634-632x400.jpg 632w, https:\/\/www.gjtaiwan.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766045309634-600x380.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1039px) 100vw, 1039px\" \/><\/div>\n<h2><strong>\u5167\u5bb9\u7c21\u4ecb<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div>In their heyday, Taiwan\u2019s sugar railways were the world\u2019s most extraordinary narrow gauge industrial railway system. Its tracks criss-crossed southern and central Taiwan and the track length of 3,000 kilometres exceeded the national railway\u2019s network. With sugar being Taiwan\u2019s largest export, by bringing sugar cane from the field to the mills and then sugar products to the ports, the sugar railways played a critical role in Taiwan\u2019s economic miracle. The railways were not limited to transporting sugar and instead carried a very diverse range of freight. It also had a passenger network of 600 kilometres that included limited stop express trains. In our book we focus on the twilight years of Taiwan\u2019s sugar railways in the 1990s when the still extensive system was entering a period of rapid closures. We tell the story of Taiwan\u2019s sugar railways using a collection of previously unpublished photographs. We also try to show the human side of this remarkable story by bringing in insights from extensive interviews with retired sugar railway workers.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>ISBN\uff1a9781915281227<br \/>\n\u8a9e\u8a00\uff1a\u82f1\u6587<br \/>\n\u51fa\u7248\u793e\uff1aThe Transport Treasury<br \/>\n\u898f\u683c\uff1a\u5e73\u88dd \/ 112\u9801 \/ 27.3 x 21.5 cm \/ \u5168\u5f69\u5370\u5237<br \/>\n\u51fa\u7248\u5730\uff1a\u82f1\u570b<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Twilight Years of Taiwan\u2019s Sugar Railways \u5167\u5bb9\u7c21\u4ecb In t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":136476,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[2663,2793],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-136471","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-2663","7":"product_cat-2793","9":"first","10":"outofstock","11":"taxable","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"bundled_by":[],"bundle_stock_status":"outofstock","bundle_stock_quantity":0,"bundle_virtual":false,"bundle_layout":"","bundle_add_to_cart_form_location":"","bundle_editable_in_cart":false,"bundle_sold_individually_context":"","bundle_item_grouping":"","bundle_min_size":"","bundle_max_size":"","bundle_price":[],"bundled_items":[],"bundle_sell_ids":{"0":65786,"2":138697},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gjtaiwan.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/136471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gjtaiwan.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gjtaiwan.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gjtaiwan.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gjtaiwan.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gjtaiwan.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gjtaiwan.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=136471"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gjtaiwan.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=136471"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gjtaiwan.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=136471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}