Broughty Ferry railway station

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Broughty Ferry

Scottish Gaelic: Port Bhruachaidh[1]
National Rail
Broughty Ferry Station.jpg
Broughty Ferry railway station
LocationBroughty Ferry, Dundee City
Scotland
Coordinates56°28′04″N 2°52′27″W / 56.4677°N 2.8741°W / 56.4677; -2.8741Coordinates: 56°28′04″N 2°52′27″W / 56.4677°N 2.8741°W / 56.4677; -2.8741
Grid referenceNO462309
Managed byAbellio ScotRail
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeBYF
Passengers
2016/17Decrease 40,718
2017/18Increase 43,330
2018/19Increase 57,454
2019/20Increase 91,678
2020/21Decrease 21,720
Listed Building – Category A
Designated8 May 1985
Reference no.LB25823[2]
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Broughty Ferry railway station (Scottish Gaelic: Stèisean Phuirt Bhruachaidh, IPA: [ˈs̪tɛːʃən furˠʃtʲ ˈvɾuəxai]) serves the suburb of Broughty Ferry in Dundee, Scotland. The station was opened on 6 October 1838 on the Dundee and Arbroath Railway. When North British Railway were granted joint ownership of the line on 21 July 1879, the station buildings were gradually rebuilt until around 1900.

It is the oldest railway station in Scotland which is still in operation.[3]

History[]

At 7:20 pm on 21 October 1991, a Dundee bound Aberdeen–London Intercity express destroyed two out of the four gates of the level crossing. The fifty passengers on board and five people in a passing car were fortunate to avoid collision when the train passed through the crossing at around 80 miles per hour.[4] The gates had not been closed before the train passed the level crossing. Dundee District Council (now defunct) had previously postponed planning permission to modernise the gates. They were replaced by the current arrangement of four barriers in 1995, with control transferred to Dundee Signalling Centre.

Subsequent restoration of the station saw the removal of the historic footbridge, which now languishes behind the westbound platform, leaving only an underpass for those wishing to cross the line at Gray Street, or walk the short distance to another overbridge, when the barriers are lowered. The footbridge was closed to the public before the crossing was modernised.

Service frequencies at the station have varied significantly over the years - prior to 1990, there were regular local trains to Arbroath & Dundee/Perth throughout the day along with a small number of longer-distance workings (see the GB National Rail Timetables 1988/89 Table 242 for details), but a shortage of rolling stock led to the service being significantly cut at the May timetable change that year. For the next twenty years, only a handful of trains (4 per day each way on average) stopped here, but since then there has a gradual increase in provision following a campaign by the local authority & rail user groups (eight additional stops were added in December 2011 [5]).

From December 2018, a roughly hourly service (Monday to Saturday daytime) to Arbroath northbound, and to Edinburgh southbound, was introduced. In the evenings southbound trains terminate at Dundee.[6]

Services[]

2016[]

Monday to Saturday: 16 services call at Broughty Ferry. There are 9 services northbound, 2 of which terminate at Inverurie, 4 at Aberdeen, 1 at Arbroath and 1 at Carnoustie. There is also an early morning departure to Inverness (Saturdays excepted). There are 7 services southbound, 3 of which terminate at Glasgow Queen Street, 2 at Edinburgh, 1 at Perth (Monday - Thursday and early Saturday) and 2 at Dundee (1 Saturdays only).[7]

Sunday: There are 3 services Northbound, terminating at Aberdeen and 4 services southbound, 2 of which terminate at Edinburgh, 1 at Glasgow Queen Street and 1 at Perth.

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 16 up to 36, as part of a service upgrade between Dundee and Arbroath.

Sunday: Service levels remain low, with only 3 northbound services to Aberdeen and 3 southbound services- 2 to Edinburgh and 1 to Perth

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.
  2. ^ Historic Environment Scotland. "Broughty Ferry, Gray Street, Railway Station including Subway (Category A Listed Building) (LB25823)". Retrieved 26 March 2019.
  3. ^ "2014 Rail Public Consultation, 7.2". 2014. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. ^ "80 mph train misses five "by yards"". Dundee Courier and Advertiser. 23 October 1991. pp. 11, 14.
  5. ^ "Campaign pays off with more train stops at Broughty Ferry"The Courier news article, 16 September 2011; Retrieved 18 August 2016
  6. ^ "ScotRail Timetables". ScotRail. 22 October 2019. Retrieved 22 October 2019.
  7. ^ GB eNRT May 2016 Edition, Table 229

External links[]

  • RailScot History of Broughty Ferry station
Preceding station National Rail National Rail Following station
Dundee   Abellio ScotRail
Dundee–Aberdeen line 		  Balmossie
  Historical railways  
West Ferry
Line open: Station closed 		  Dundee and Arbroath Railway   Monifieth
Line and Station open
West Ferry
Line open: Station closed 		  Dundee and Arbroath Railway
Broughty Ferry Pier Branch 		  Broughty Ferry Pier
Line and Station closed
West Ferry
Line open, Station closed 		  Caledonian Railway
Dundee and Forfar Direct Line
  
Line and Station closed

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