A DERAILMENT on April 2 in a tunnel resulted in 49 deaths, the worst death toll in an accident on Taiwan’s railways since 1948.
The train involved was a ‘TEMU1000’tilting 1,067mm gauge eight-car EMU built by Hitachi in 2016 at Kasado in Japan, operating a‘Taroko Express’ service from Shulin to Taitung on the coastal‘North-Link’line beside the Pacific Ocean.