Lobby
Museum service and educational spaces
Offer exhibition information, heritage restoration and tourist services.
Erecting Shop: Main exhibition hall
Erecting Shop, as the most attractive exhibition hall, will exhibit classic carriages.The old building will carry new exhibition functions.
Exhibits include carriages, machines, technical historical materials, cultural relics, models, guided tours and employee life environment.
Diesel-Electric Locomotive Shop : Train repair on site
Diesel-Electric Locomotive Shop will include locomotive repair and machine exhibition. Some areas will be reserved for relular maintenance. The technical knowledge and repair process are exhibited in public.
Internal Combustion Engine Shop and Paint shop will restore some functions, such painting and machine storage, in coordination with repair needs in the DieselElectric Locomotive Shop.
Taipei Railway Workshop on-site exhibition
Valuable machines, including steam hammers, steam boiler, and bathtub, still remain in Bathhouse,Power House and Forging Shop. On-site exhibitions reveal traces and history in TRW.
Some sections in each building are reserved for original context and culture.
Coach Shop: Theater for valuable trains
Except for pillars supporting the truss structure, the space is without partitions and suitable for train storage. The southern side in the space, along with Sheet Metal Shop and tracks, would become storage place for valuable carriages.Northern side of the Coach Shop will become railway theater. The performance will combine new media, innovative approaches and precious trains to tell cultural and historical railway stories to audience.Traverser demonstration informs visitors about technical knowledge.
Railway Technique Training Center and Open Learning Center
TRW Technician Apprentice School will adapt its original program and become railway technique training center for courses and workshops on railway technique.
Materials Laboratory will become Open Learning Center with child-friendly simulation experiences.
Mini trains and other child-friendly facilities will run in gardens.
Resumption: Museum train rides
Based on existing tracks, we suggest to reconnect lines and recover platforms for future operations Rebuild the eastward central line from West Dormitory to offer train ride experiences. Trains can return to Diesel-Electric Locomotive Shop for maintenance if needed.
Built for communities
In the short-term, workshop buildings near Dongxing Road could be used for community and cultural programs, such as event space, tourist information center, railway bookstore, railway community space and railway-themed restaurant.
In the long-term, the area will be available for other purposes in National Railway Museum.
Open space for citizens
Outdoor canopy and tracks can be used as open space to wander, and take photos of carriages.
Passenger cars can be transformed into dining cars as a special experience.