Taiwan Railway Corp (TRC) on Saturday said it would levy penalties on a man if he is found to have trespassed on the railway tracks of a New Taipei City station on Friday afternoon.
At about 6pm on Friday, a man fell onto the tracks at Fuzhou Station in New Taipei’s Banciao District (板橋) as alert lights flashed to signal the arrival of Tze-Chiang Limited Express Train No. 176.
The train was subsequently stalled at the station. However, after searching for almost three hours, neither firefighters nor police officers found any trace of the man.
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The New Taipei City Fire Department said that after combing through security footage, officials from the TRC and the Railway Police Bureau saw a man rolling over the tracks before climbing over a wall and leaving the station.
Officials ended the search at about 9pm and the train was cleared to leave the station.
Railway police said a 50-year-old man, surnamed Liang (梁), called the bureau at 12:36am on Saturday, claiming to be the individual who “fell” onto the tracks at the station.
Liang turned himself in at the bureau’s Banciao precinct at 2:17am and was transferred to the New Taipei City District Prosecutors’ Office.
He is being investigated for endangering public safety.
Liang said he had sustained minor injuries to his legs and waist, the railway police said.
The precinct chief said that an investigation found no damage to the train or traces of blood.
The police did not comment on what they suspected Liang’s intentions were.
Meanwhile, the TRC said that with the prolonged stop of Tze-Chiang No. 176, 58 trains were delayed by a total of 3,200 minutes — an average of about 55 minutes.
If it is proven that Liang had deliberately gone onto the train tracks, he would face criminal charges and fines for disrupting train services and contravening Article 57 of the Railway Act (鐵路法), the TRC said.
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