Carnoustie railway station

Carnoustie railway station is an unstaffed railway station which serves the town of Carnoustie, Angus, Scotland.

Carnoustie
Scottish Gaelic: Càrn Ùstaidh[1]
Carnoustie railway station in July 1913
Location
Place	Carnoustie
Local authority	Angus
Coordinates	56.5007°N 2.7053°W / 56.5007; -2.7053
Grid reference	NO566345
Operations
Station code	CAN
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15	0.124 million
2015/16	0.124 million
2016/17	0.120 million
2017/18	0.127 million
2018/19	0.200 million
History
Original company	Dundee and Arbroath Railway
6 October 1838	Opened
1900	Station relocated
National Rail – UK railway stations
Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Carnoustie from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

Carnoustie station was extensively refurbished by Galliford Try Rail prior to the 2007 Open Golf Championship which was held at the adjacent golf course.

History

The station was opened on 6 October 1838 on the 5ft 6in gauge (1676mm) Dundee and Arbroath Railway.[2][3] The station was originally built on the west side of Station Road, to the north of the running line. The goods yard was to the north of the station and mostly accessed via a turntable.[4] The railway changed to standard gauge in 1847.[3]

In 1900 the station was relocated to the other side of the running line and to the other side of Station Road, the goods yard remained where it was and expanded into some of the space the station had used, by this time the access became the usual set of points. The goods yard was able to accommodate most types of goods including live stock and was equipped with a three-ton crane.[5][6]

A camping coach was positioned here by the Scottish Region from 1956 to 1960, the coach was replaced in 1961 by a Pullman camping coach which was joined by another Pullman in 1964 until 1967 when they were withdrawn.[7]

Services

2018/19

Monday to Saturday: There is an hourly service in each direction, to both Edinburgh via Dundee and Kirkcaldy, and to Arbroath. This takes the daily number of services from 34 up to 45, as part of a service upgrade between Dundee and Arbroath, delivered by Transport Scotland and Scotail.[8] There are also some services to and from Glasgow and Aberdeen.

Sunday: Northbound, there are 5 trains a day to Aberdeen and Southbound, 3 trains to Edinburgh, 1 to Glasgow and 1 to Perth.

2016

The station is served primarily by Abellio ScotRail trains between Glasgow Queen Street and Aberdeen. These call every two hours each way for most of the day, rising to hourly at peak times. A limited number of trains to/from Edinburgh Waverley also call during morning & evening peak periods, whilst two services start/finish here (one of which provides the 'parliamentary' token service to/from most of the local stations en route to Dundee).[9]

There is also a limited Sunday service (five per day each way in the current timetable) to Glasgow and Aberdeen.

Gallery

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  Pedestrian bridge for platform access (2005)
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  Platform view (1988)

References

1. Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. "Gaelic/English Station Index". Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
2. Quick, Michael (2019) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (PDF) (5th ed.). Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 108.
3. Grant, Donald J. (2017). Directory of the Railway Companies of Great Britain (1st ed.). Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire: Troubador Publishing Ltd. pp. 157–158. ISBN 978-1-78803-768-6.
4. "Carnoustie station on OS 25 inch map Forfarshire LI.16 (with inset LII.13) (Combined)". National Library of Scotland. 1899 [surveyed in 1858]. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
5. "Carnoustie station on OS 25 inch map Forfarshire LI.16 (Barry; Panbride)". National Library of Scotland. 1902. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
6. The Railway Clearing House (1970) [1904]. The Railway Clearing House Handbook of Railway Stations 1904 (1970 D&C Reprint ed.). Newton Abbot: David & Charles Reprints. p. 109. ISBN 0-7153-5120-6.
7. McRae, Andrew (1998). British Railways Camping Coach Holidays: A Tour of Britain in the 1950s and 1960s. Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part Two). Foxline. p. 28. ISBN 1-870119-53-3.
8. Scotrail rail revolution declared as 39 carriages ‘to be retained by ScotRail’ instead of going elsewhereRail.co.uk news article 25 March 2016; Retrieved 18 August 2016
9. GB eNRT 2015-16 Edition, Table 229 (Network Rail)

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Golf Street		Abellio ScotRail Edinburgh to Aberdeen Line		Arbroath
		Abellio ScotRail Glasgow to Aberdeen Line
Dundee		Caledonian Sleeper Highland Caledonian Sleeper		Arbroath
	Historical railways
Barry Line and Station open		Dundee and Arbroath Railway		East Haven Line open; Station closed