Invergowrie railway station
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| Location | Invergowrie, Perth and Kinross Scotland |
| Coordinates | 56°27′23″N 3°03′28″W / 56.4563°N 3.0578°WCoordinates: 56°27′23″N 3°03′28″W / 56.4563°N 3.0578°W |
| Grid reference | NO349298 |
| Managed by | Abellio ScotRail |
| Platforms | 2 |
| Other information | |
| Station code | ING |
| History | |
| Original company | Dundee and Perth Railway |
| Pre-grouping | Caledonian Railway |
| Post-grouping | LMS |
| Passengers | |
| 2016/17 |  4,308 |
| 2017/18 | 6,096 |
| 2018/19 |  5,722 |
| 2019/20 | 5,166 |
| 2020/21 | 1,942 |
| Notes | |
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road | |
Invergowrie railway station is an unstaffed halt which serves the village of Invergowrie west of the city of Dundee, Scotland on the north bank of the Firth of Tay.
It was built by the Dundee and Perth Railway, a constituent company of the Scottish Central Railway and later the Caledonian Railway and opened in 1848. It has been threatened with closure on several occasions since the 1950s, narrowly avoiding the Beeching Axe and being reprieved again by British Rail in 1985 (unlike neighbouring Errol, which closed in September that year).
The c.1900 footbridge is category C listed.[2]
| Preceding station |  National Rail
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Following station | ||
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| Perth | Abellio ScotRail Glasgow to Aberdeen Line |
Dundee | ||
| Historical railways | ||||
| Longforgan Line open; Station closed |
Dundee and Perth Railway Caledonian Railway |
Ninewells Line open; Station closed | ||
Services (2020)[]
Invergowrie only has a limited service with large gaps between trains with trains only calling mostly in the morning and evenings, On Monday to Saturdays, There is 13 trains per day to Glasgow Queen Street and Dundee, A few trains continue beyond Dundee towards Arbroath and Aberdeen, There is no Sunday service.
Transport Scotland announced in March 2016 that Invergowrie 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.[3][4] The existing irregular Glasgow - Dundee regional service that calls here will be increased to run hourly through the day.
References[]
- ^ 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.
- ^ Historic Environment Scotland. "INVERGOWRIE STATION ROAD, INVERGOWRIE STATION, FOOTBRIDGE OVER RAILWAY (LB13458)". Retrieved 15 April 2019.
- ^ "‘Rail revolution’ means 200 more services and 20,000 more seats for Scots passengers" Archived 2016-08-20 at the Wayback MachineTransport Scotland press release 15 March 2016; Retrieved 18 August 2016
- ^ "Scotrail rail revolution declared as 39 carriages ‘to be retained by ScotRail’ instead of going elsewhere" Rail.co.uk article 25 March 2016; Retrieved 18 August 2016
See also[]
- Invergowrie rail crash on 22 October 1979 after a stop signal is ignored: Five killed and 52 hurt.
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