Monifieth railway station

Monifieth railway station serves the town of Monifieth near Dundee, Scotland. The original station buildings have been demolished and recovered parts used for the Birkhill railway station building on the Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway.

Monifieth
Scottish Gaelic: Monadh Fotha[1]
Location
Place	Monifieth
Local authority	Angus
Coordinates	56.4799°N 2.8175°W / 56.4799; -2.8175
Grid reference	NO497322
Operations
Station code	MON
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15	4,680
2015/16	6,654
2016/17	5,830
2017/18	5,942
2018/19	9,224
History
Original company	Dundee and Arbroath Railway
6 October 1838	Station opened
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Monifieth from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

History

The station was opened on 6 October 1838 on the 5ft 6in gauge (1676mm) Dundee and Arbroath Railway.[2][3] The station had two platforms either side of a double track running line. The goods yard was to the north of the station.[4] The railway changed to standard gauge in 1847.[3]

A camping coach was positioned here by the Scottish Region from 1956 to 1966, with two coaches here for the last two years.[5]

Services

Current Services

2018/19

Monday to Saturday: There is an approximately hourly service in each direction, to both Edinburgh via Dundee and Kirkcaldy, and to Arbroath. This takes the daily number of services from 7 up to 28, as part of a service upgrade between Dundee and Arbroath.

Sunday: There is currently no Sunday service.

Past

1990s

British Rail operated a local passenger service to the intermediate stations between Dundee and Arbroath until May 1990. Since these were discontinued, most of the intermediate stations have had only a very sparse service, provided so as to avoid the difficulty of formal closure procedures.

2012

In July 2012, First ScotRail announced that they were increasing the number of services calling here from 2 per day to 6 per day from the December timetable change.[6]

2016

In the May 2016 timetable, a further northbound call has been provided to bring the total number of station stops here to seven. Northbound, two trains run through to Aberdeen (the first continues on to Inverness), one to Arbroath and one to Carnoustie (the latter three all originating at Glasgow Queen Street) whilst the southbound trains run to Dundee (one in the early morning) and the others through to Edinburgh (one a.m peak and one evening). No trains call here on Sundays.[7]

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Balmossie or Broughty Ferry		Abellio ScotRail Glasgow to Aberdeen Line Mondays-Saturdays only		Barry Links or Carnoustie
		Abellio ScotRail Edinburgh to Aberdeen Line Mondays-Saturdays only
	Historical railways
Broughty Ferry Line and Station open		Dundee and Arbroath Railway		Buddon Line open; Station closed

2018/19 Service Improvements

Transport Scotland announced in March 2016 that Monifieth would be one of several stations to benefit from a timetable upgrade that will see 200 additional services introduced across the Scotrail network from 2018.[8][9] This has seen a mostly hourly service in each direction to Dundee and Arbroath being introduced Mon-Sat. Nearly all southbound trains continue to Edinburgh, serving major intermediate stations en route.[10]

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. "Monifieth station on OS 25 inch map Forfarshire LV.1 (Combined)". National Library of Scotland. 1896 [surveyed in 1857]. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
5. 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.
6. GB NRT December 2012 Edition, Table 229
7. Table 229 National Rail timetable, May 2016
8. "‘Rail revolution’ means 200 more services and 20,000 more seats for Scots passengers" Archived 20 August 2016 at the Wayback MachineTransport Scotland press release 15 March 2016; Retrieved 18 August 2016
9. "Scotrail rail revolution declared as 39 carriages ‘to be retained by ScotRail’ instead of going elsewhereRail.co.uk article 25 March 2016; Retrieved 18 August 2016
10. Table 229 National Rail timetable, December 2018

Further reading

• 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.

External links

• RAILSCOT History of Station