Balmossie railway station

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Balmossie

Scottish Gaelic: Baile Mosaidh[1]
National Rail
Balmossie-Railway-Station-Aug2019.jpg
LocationMonifieth, Angus
Scotland
Coordinates56°28′29″N 2°50′18″W / 56.4747°N 2.8384°W / 56.4747; -2.8384Coordinates: 56°28′29″N 2°50′18″W / 56.4747°N 2.8384°W / 56.4747; -2.8384
Grid referenceNO484317
Managed byAbellio ScotRail
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeBSI
History
Original companyBritish Railways Scottish Region
Key dates
18 June 1962Opened as Balmossie Halt[2]
16 May 1983Renamed Balmossie[2]
Passengers
2016/17Increase 1,364
2017/18Decrease 698
2018/19Increase 984
2019/20Increase 1,524
2020/21Decrease 392
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Balmossie railway station is a small railway station which serves the suburb of Balmossie west of Monifieth, Scotland, which serves the east of Broughty Ferry. The station was originally opened on 18 June 1962 as Balmossie Halt by British Rail Scottish Region[2] and renamed as Balmossie on 16 May 1983.[2]

Service[]

British Rail operated local passenger services between Dundee and Arbroath until May 1990. Since these were discontinued, most of the intermediate stations have had only a very sparse "parliamentary" service, provided so as to avoid the difficulty of formal closure procedures. Abellio ScotRail provides Balmossie with only two trains a day in each direction, Mondays to Saturdays. The southbound services depart at 06:25 (to Dundee) and 08:02 (to Glasgow). The northbound services depart at 17:59 (from Glasgow) and 18:39 (from Edinburgh).[3] Consequently, patronage of the station is currently low.

There is no Sunday service.

Preceding station National Rail National Rail Following station
Broughty Ferry   Abellio ScotRail
Dundee–Aberdeen line
Mondays-Saturdays only 		  Monifieth
  Historical railways  
Broughty Ferry
Line and station open 		  British Railways
Scottish Region 		  Monifieth
Line and station open

References[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
  2. ^ a b c d Butt 1995, p. 26
  3. ^ Table 229 National Rail timetable, May 2019

Sources[]

  • Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.
  • 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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