Dunbar railway station
Dunbar | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Location | East Lothian |
| Managed by | Abellio ScotRail |
| Platforms | 1 |
| Other information | |
| Station code | DUN |
| History | |
| Original company | North British Railway |
| Pre-grouping | North British Railway |
| Post-grouping | LNER |
| Key dates | |
| 16 June 1846 | Opened[1][2] |
Dunbar railway station serves the town of Dunbar in East Lothian, Scotland. It is located on the East Coast Main Line and is a single platform station. The platform is located on a loop adjacent to the main through lines. It is halfway between Edinburgh Waverley and Berwick-upon-Tweed with a distance of about 28 miles (45 km). The line on which the platform is located is bi-directional (meaning that trains travelling to/from London or Edinburgh Waverley take it in turns to use the station if they are scheduled to stop there) and along with Syston station in Leicester it is a rare example of a single platformed main line railway station used on a major route.
History
The station, which was first opened by the North British Railway in June 1846, used to have two platforms and an overall roof.[2] Both features no longer exist - the northbound platform loop line was taken out of use and lifted in the early 1970s, whilst the platform itself and the station roof were both removed during the modernisation and electrification by British Rail of the northern end of the East Coast Main Line between 1989 and 1991.
For approximately five months in 1979, this was the terminal station for a shuttle service to Edinburgh Waverley. The shuttle service was provided after the East Coast Main Line was blocked due to the collapse of Penmanshiel Tunnel. Buses linked Dunbar with Berwick-upon-Tweed, from where rail services to London King's Cross resumed.
Accidents and incidents
- On 3 January 1898, an express passenger train collided with a freight train that was being shunted. One person was killed and 21 were injured.[3]
Services
The station is served by Abellio ScotRail, CrossCountry and Virgin Trains East Coast. It is currently managed by Abellio ScotRail.[4][5]
The station is served mainly by CrossCountry trains on the Plymouth to Edinburgh route with projections to/from Dundee (2 Services Monday-Saturday and 1 on Sundays), Aberdeen (1 service per day) or Glasgow Central (0700 service weekdays) in the north and Penzance (1 service per day Monday-Saturday with an occasional Sunday) in the south. These trains serve Dunbar at roughly two-hourly intervals throughout the day. Some Virgin Trains East Coast services between London King's Cross and Edinburgh Waverley call at Dunbar.
ScotRail also provides some Monday to Saturday services to Edinburgh. The weekday ScotRail services were introduced in the May 2010 timetable (marking the first time in 20 years since Scottish local services used Dunbar). A year later in May 2011, all ScotRail services between Dunbar and Edinburgh introduced a one intermediate stop at Musselburgh to allow the connection of Dunbar students to Queen Margaret University. From the beginning of the December 2011 timetable, a late Saturday night service to Dunbar from Edinburgh was introduced. The Saturday daytime services were introduced in the December 2012 timetable. The ScotRail services enhance Dunbar every two hours during the day making the daytime services hourly on Mondays-Saturdays. ScotRail does not serve Dunbar on Sundays. Train services on Sundays are two hourly throughout the day except for the evenings where these services are hourly until mid/late evening.
| Preceding station |  National Rail
|
Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berwick-upon-Tweed | CrossCountry Cross Country Network |
Edinburgh Waverley | ||
| Berwick-upon-Tweed | Virgin Trains East Coast London-Edinburgh |
Edinburgh Waverley | ||
| Terminus | Abellio ScotRail Edinburgh to Dunbar |
Musselburgh | ||
| Historical railways | ||||
| Innerwick Line open; station closed |
North British Railway NBR Main Line |
East Linton Line open; station closed | ||
References
- ^ Butt (1995)
- ^ a b RAILSCOT
- ^ Trevena, Arthur (1981). Trains in Trouble: Vol. 2. Redruth: Atlantic Books. p. 9. ISBN 0-906899-03-6.
- ^ ScotRail Franchise Invitation to Tender Transport Scotland 23 January 2014
- ^ [1]
Sources
- 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.
- Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
- Scotrail timetables: Glasgow - Edinburgh - North Berwick & Dunbar
- "RAILSCOT - Dunbar station gallery". Retrieved 21 November 2008.