Golf Street railway station

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Golf Street

Scottish Gaelic: Sràid a' Ghoilf[1]
National Rail
Golf-Street-Station-Aug2019.jpg
LocationCarnoustie, Angus
Scotland
Coordinates56°29′53″N 2°43′12″W / 56.4980°N 2.7200°W / 56.4980; -2.7200Coordinates: 56°29′53″N 2°43′12″W / 56.4980°N 2.7200°W / 56.4980; -2.7200
Grid referenceNO557342
Managed byAbellio ScotRail
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeGOF
Key dates
7 November 1960[2]Opened as Golf Street Halt
16 May 1983Renamed as Golf Street
Passengers
2016/17Decrease 104
2017/18Increase 268
2018/19Increase 280
2019/20Increase 964
2020/21Decrease 114
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Golf Street railway station is located on Golf Street in Carnoustie, Angus, Scotland, and serves the town's central areas. The station opened in 1960[3] as Golf Street Halt before changing its name on 16 May 1983.

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. Currently (July 2019), Abellio ScotRail provides Golf Street with only two trains a day in each direction, Mondays to Saturdays (there is no Sunday service).[4]

Southbound services (both commencing at Arbroath) call at 06:15 to Dundee and at 07:52 for Glasgow Queen Street. Northbound services originate at Glasgow Queen Street and Edinburgh Waverley, calling at 18:08 and 18:49 respectively and both terminating at Arbroath. Consequently, patronage of the station is currently very low. In the Strategic Rail Authority's 2002/3 financial year, only nine people (excluding season ticket holders) paid fares at Golf Street station, with nine disembarking, making it the third least busy station in the United Kingdom, after Gainsborough Central and neighbouring Barry Links. In 2005/06 there were 65 passenger entries/exits at the station (9th lowest in the UK), but this dropped to 38 (4th lowest) in 2006/07.[5]

During the 1999 Open Championship, extra services were laid on to bring spectators to Carnoustie Golf Links, significantly boosting passenger figures for that year.[6]

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. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 13 December 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 13 December 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ https://www.scotrail.co.uk/sites/default/files/assets/download_ct/20089_edinburgh_glasgow-aberdeen.pdf
  5. ^ "Office of Rail Regulation statistics". Archived from the original on 17 July 2007. Retrieved 17 June 2008.
  6. ^ Station where it's the train waiting in vain, Scotland on Sunday

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Preceding station National Rail National Rail Following station
Barry Links   Abellio ScotRail
Dundee–Aberdeen line
Mondays-Saturdays only 		  Carnoustie
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