The Longteng Broken Bridge [龍騰斷橋]
The Longteng Bridge is located between Sanyi Township’s Shengsing Train Station Station [勝興車站] and Yutengping Station [魚藤坪車站] on the Old Mountain Line Railway [舊山線]. This beautiful red-brick bridge was built in 1905 during the period of Japanese colonial rule. On the morning of April 21, 1935, the massive 7.1 magnitude Hsinchu-Taichung Earthquake destroyed the Longteng Bridge.
All that is left standing has become a tourist stop on the Sanyi Circuit – A quick tour of wood carving shops, Shengsing Train Station, and a stop at any of the area’s several Hakka restaurants. This circuit isn’t very enjoyable on weekends or holidays. I took my folks and my brother here when they visited. Including the farmers selling produce out of their trucks there were only about a dozen other people at the time we went.
The Daily Bubble Tea 
Beautiful pictures! And what a beautiful blue sky 🙂
Thanks! I was surprised. Usually Lunar New Year has the worst weather of the year. However, this year was very pleasant. Hope that doesn’t mean summer won’t be more unbearable than it usually is.
Yeh, I remember being in Laos during their summer and I felt disgusting and sweaty, basically ALL of the time!
Taiwan isn’t nearly as bad during the summer. It’s bearable before 9:30 am.
Great shots! At the risk of sounding like the old geezer I’m in the processing of becoming, I can remember this place before it became a tourist attraction. Back in the days when we were dating (circa 2000), my wife took me to see the bridge and the old Shengsing train station. Back then, there were no food vendors or parking lots by the bridge, and around the train station there were only a couple of restaurants and no souvenir shops. Best of all, hardly anyone was there, not like the zoo it is now.
I took everyone there on a weekday prior to Lunar New Year so we lucked out. I would have loved to see this place before it became an attraction though. I assume there wasn’t a neatly mowed lawn when you visited in 2000.
One of many places I need to visit in the north.
Definitely worth a stop if you are exploring Miaoli.
How can I get from a train station to the bridge? can i walk it?
Hi Catherine,
I’ve never tried walking from the station to the bridge but it’s about 4.5 km away by car. They did at one stage turn the old rail into a hiking trail but I’m pretty sure that’s been scrapped now that trains occasionally run on this line.
http://goo.gl/maps/UocfK
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