Arbroath railway station

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.

For other railway stations in Arbroath, see Railway stations in Arbroath.

Arbroath
Scottish Gaelic: Obar Bhrothaig[1]
Arbroath railway station
Location
PlaceArbroath
Local authorityAngus
Coordinates56.5594°N 2.5892°W / 56.5594; -2.5892
Grid referenceNO638409
Operations
Station codeARB
Managed byAbellio ScotRail
Number of platforms2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 0.393 million
– Interchange  800
2015/16 0.383 million
– Interchange  916
2016/17 0.361 million
– Interchange  1,185
2017/18 0.367 million
– Interchange  2,396
2018/19 0.370 million
– Interchange  27,230
History
Original companyDundee and Arbroath Railway
Pre-groupingDundee and Arbroath Railway
Post-groupingDundee and Arbroath Railway
1 February 1848Opened[2]
National Rail – UK railway stations
  • 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.

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[2] as a link station to connect the Arbroath and Forfar Railway with the Dundee and Arbroath Railway. On 1 October 1880[3] 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 and 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 This was mostly withdrawn at the May 1990 timetable change (due to a low usage and a rolling stock shortage) and the residual service that still operates now starts and terminates at Carnoustie. The former platform 3 and its associated loop has also been taken out of use and 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 and Broughty Ferry stations every hour through the day. Existing services through to Glasgow and Edinburgh will also be accelerated as part of the same recast.[4]

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.[5]

London North Eastern Railway services to London King's 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   London North Eastern Railway
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. Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
  2. Butt 1995, p. 17.
  3. Awdry 1990, p. 152.
  4. Transport Scotland (15 March 2016). "'Rail revolution' means 200 more services and 20,000 more seats for Scots passengers" (Press release). Archived from the original on 20 August 2016. Retrieved 18 August 2016.
  5. GB eNRT May 2017 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. CN 8983.
  • Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • 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 978-1-85260-508-7. 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 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
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