Arbroath railway station

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
Operations
Station code	ARB
Managed by	First ScotRail
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	0.373 million
2005/06	0.397 million
2006/07	0.393 million
2007/08	0.428 million
2008/09	0.410 million
2009/10	0.393 million
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 Regulation statistics. Please note: 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 in the 1980s, the station was served by ScotRail until the Privatisation of British Railways.

Services

A southbound First 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.

Some East Coast Main Line services to London Kings Cross and CrossCountry routes towards England also stop at Arbroath.

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

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Dundee		CrossCountry Cross Country Network		Montrose
Carnoustie		First ScotRail Glasgow to Aberdeen Line		Montrose
Carnoustie		First Scotrail Edinburgh to Aberdeen Line		Montrose
Carnoustie		First ScotRail Highland Caledonian Sleeper		Montrose
Dundee		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

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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