Arbroath railway station

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Arbroath
Arbroath railway station
Location
Place	Arbroath
Local authority	Angus
Coordinates	56°33′34″N 2°35′21″W / 56.5594°N 2.5892°W / 56.5594; -2.5892Coordinates: 56°33′34″N 2°35′21″W / 56.5594°N 2.5892°W / 56.5594; -2.5892
Grid reference	NO638409
Operations
Station code	ARB
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2010/11	0.404 million
– Interchange	104
2011/12	0.399 million
– Interchange	188
2012/13	0.388 million
– Interchange	527
2013/14	0.389 million
– Interchange	777
2014/15	0.393 million
– Interchange	800
History
Original company	Arbroath and Forfar Railway & Dundee and Arbroath Railway
Pre-grouping	CR & NBR
Post-grouping	LMS & LNER
1 February 1848	Opened^[1]
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Arbroath from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Arbroath railway station serves the town of Arbroath in Angus, Scotland. The station is 17 miles (27 km) east of Dundee on the line between Dundee and Aberdeen.

History

There have been three stations called "Arbroath", two of which closed in 1848. One - Arbroath Catherine Street - served the Arbroath and Forfar Railway; the other - Arbroath Lady Loan or Arbroath West - was on the Dundee and Arbroath Railway. The current station was originally opened by the Dundee and Arbroath Railway on 1 February 1848^[1] as a link station to connect the Arbroath and Forfar Railway with the Dundee and Arbroath Railway. On 1 October 1880^[2] the North British, Arbroath and Montrose Railway opened north towards Montrose.

Jointly run by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and the London and North Eastern Railway after the Grouping of 1923, the station then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

When sectorisation was introduced by British Rail in the 1980s, the station was served by Scotrail until the privatisation of British Rail.

Until 1990, the station had 3 active platforms and was the terminus of a regular local service from Perth & Dundee that called at all of the intermediate local stations between the latter station and here. This was mostly withdrawn at the May 1990 timetable change (due to a low usage & a rolling stock shortage) and the residual service that still operates now starts & terminates at Carnoustie. The former platform 3 and its associated loop has also been taken out of use & lifted.

From 2018, a stopping service to Dundee (and potentially beyond) is to be reintroduced as part of a major timetable improvement package backed by Transport Scotland. This will serve Carnoustie, Monifieth & Broughty Ferry stations every hour through the day. Existing services through to Glasgow & Edinburgh will also be accelerated as part of the same recast.^[3]

Services

A southbound ScotRail service

There are generally two or three trains per hour between westbound to Dundee and eastbound to Aberdeen, with hourly services onwards from Dundee towards Edinburgh and Glasgow Queen Street.^[4]

Virgin Trains East Coast services to London Kings Cross and CrossCountry routes towards England also stop at Arbroath.

The station in 2002

On Sundays there is generally an hourly service in each direction.

Preceding station	National Rail		Following station
Dundee		CrossCountry Cross Country Network	Montrose
Carnoustie		Abellio ScotRail Glasgow to Aberdeen Line	Montrose
Carnoustie		Abellio ScotRail Edinburgh to Aberdeen Line	Montrose
Carnoustie		Caledonian Sleeper Highland Caledonian Sleeper	Montrose
Dundee		Virgin Trains East Coast Northern Lights (London – Aberdeen)	Montrose
	Historical railways
Elliot Junction Line open; Station Closed		CR & NBR Dundee and Arbroath Railway	Link line station
Link line station		Caledonian Railway Arbroath and Forfar Railway	Colliston Line partially open; Station closed
Link line station		North British Railway North British, Arbroath and Montrose Railway	Letham Grange Line open; Station closed

References

Notes

1 2 Butt (1995), page 17
↑ Awdry (1990), page 152
↑ "‘Rail revolution’ means 200 more services and 20,000 more seats for Scots passengers"Transport Scotland press release 15 March 2016; Retrieved 18 August 2016
↑ GB eNRT 2015-16 Edition, Table 229 (Network Rail)

Sources

Awdry, Christopher (1990). Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies. Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0049-7. OCLC 19514063.
Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.
Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137.
Station on navigable O.S. map.
History of Station

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