Arbroath railway station

For other railway stations in Arbroath, see Railway stations in Arbroath.

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General information
Other names	Scottish Gaelic: Obar Bhrothaig
Location	Angus
Coordinates	56.5594°N 2.5892°W / 56.5594; -2.5892
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	ARB
History
Original company	Dundee and Arbroath Railway
Pre-grouping	Dundee and Arbroath Railway
Post-grouping	Dundee and Arbroath Railway
Key dates
1 February 1848	Opened

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 as a link station to connect the Arbroath and Forfar Railway with the Dundee and Arbroath Railway. On 1 October 1880 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 by British Rail in the 1980s, the station was served by Scotrail until the privatisation of British Rail.

Until 1990, the station had 3 active platforms and was the terminus of a regular local service from Perth and Dundee that called at all of the intermediate local stations between the latter station and here. This was mostly withdrawn at the May 1990 timetable change (due to a low usage and a rolling stock shortage) and the residual service that still operates now starts and terminates at Carnoustie. The former platform 3 and its associated loop has also been taken out of use and lifted.

From 2018, a stopping service to Dundee (and potentially beyond) is to be reintroduced as part of a major timetable improvement package backed by Transport Scotland. This will serve Carnoustie, Monifieth and Broughty Ferry stations every hour through the day. Existing services through to Glasgow and Edinburgh will also be accelerated as part of the same recast.

Services

A southbound 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.

London North Eastern Railway services to London King's Cross and CrossCountry routes towards England also stop at Arbroath.

The station in 2002

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

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Dundee		CrossCountry Cross Country Network		Montrose
Carnoustie		Abellio ScotRail Glasgow to Aberdeen Line		Montrose
Carnoustie		Abellio ScotRail Edinburgh to Aberdeen Line		Montrose
Carnoustie		Caledonian Sleeper Highland Caledonian Sleeper		Montrose
Dundee		London North Eastern Railway 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

Sources

• Awdry, Christopher (1990). Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies. Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0049-7. OCLC 19514063. CN 8983.
• Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
• Butt, R. V. J. (October 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. OL 11956311M.
• 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.

External links

• Station on navigable O.S. map.
• History of Station