Broughty Ferry railway station is a railway station serving the suburb of Broughty Ferry in Dundee, Scotland. It is sited 3 miles 38 chains (5.6 km) from the former Dundee East station, on the Dundee to Aberdeen line, between Dundee and Balmossie.[4]

Broughty Ferry Scottish Gaelic: Port Bhruachaidh[1]
Broughty Ferry railway station
General information
Location	Broughty Ferry, Dundee City Scotland
Coordinates	56.4677°N 2.8741°W / 56.4677; -2.8741
Grid reference	NO462309
Managed by	ScotRail
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	BYF[2]
Passengers
2016/17	40,718
2017/18	43,330
2018/19	57,454
2019/20	91,678
2020/21	21,720
Listed Building – Category A
Designated	8 May 1985
Reference no.	LB25823[3]
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

It is the oldest railway station in Scotland which is still in operation.[5]

History

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.^{[citation needed]}

Accidents and incidents

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.[6] 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.

Facilities

The station is unstaffed, with benches and help points available on both platforms, plus a payphone and cycle racks on platform 1, although a shelter is available on platform 2. Step-free access is available to both platforms from the main road, but both platforms are also joined via the subway.[7] As there are no facilities to purchase tickets, passengers must buy one in advance, or from the guard on the train.

Passenger volume

In recent years, passenger usage has grown phenomenally, from under 10,000 in 2012-12 to over 90,000 in 2019-20, including a 24,000 rise between 2018-19 and 2019-20. 15 years earlier, usage hovered around 5,000 passengers per year.

The statistics cover twelve month periods that start in April.

Services

Service frequencies at the station have varied significantly over the years - prior to 1990, there were regular local trains to Arbroath and Dundee or Perth throughout the day along with a small number of longer-distance workings, but a shortage of rolling stock led to the service being significantly cut at the May timetable change that year.^{[citation needed]} 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).[9]

As of May 2022, on weekdays and Saturdays there is an hourly service in each direction, to Dundee westbound (with one extended to Glasgow and one to Perth), and eastbound to Arbroath (with one extended to Aberdeen, one to Inverurie and one to Inverness). On Sundays, there are only 3 northbound services to Aberdeen and 4 southbound services: two to Edinburgh, one to Glasgow Queen Street and one to Perth.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Dundee		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		Barnhill Line and Station closed

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Broughty Ferry railway station.

• RailScot History of Broughty Ferry station

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