Arbroath railway station

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Template other Arbroath railway station serves the town of Arbroath in Angus, Scotland. The station is east of Dundee on the line between Dundee and Aberdeen, between Carnoustie and Montrose. There are two crossovers at the north end of the station, which can be used to facilitate trains turning back if the line south to Carnoustie is blocked. ScotRail, who manage the station, provide most of the services, along with CrossCountry, London North Eastern Railway and Caledonian Sleeper.

History

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A northbound inter-city train arriving in 1981

There have been three stations called Arbroath, two of which closed in 1848: Arbroath Catherine Street served the Arbroath and Forfar Railway and 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,Template:Sfn albeit temporarily, as it was opened permanently on 14 December 1858 Template:Sfn as a link station to connect the Arbroath and Forfar Railway with the Dundee and Arbroath Railway. On 1 October 1880,Template:Sfn the North British, Arbroath and Montrose Railway opened north towards Template:Rws.

Until 1990, the station had 3 active platforms and was the terminus of a regular local service from Template:Rws and Template:Rws that called at all of the intermediate local stations between the latter station and here.

Facilities

The station building is built above the railway line and platforms, and contains the ticket office, lifts to platforms and toilets. Outside is a taxi rank drop-off point. Each of the platforms has a waiting room, a help point and a bench, whilst platform 1 also has a ticket machine, which is adjacent to the car park.

Passenger volume

The main origin or destination station for journeys to or from Arbroath in the 2022–23 period was Dundee, making up 115,522 of the 293,274 journeys (39.4%).

Passenger Volume at Arbroath

	2002–03	2004–05	2005–06	2006–07	2007–08	2008–09	2009–10	2010–11	2011–12	2012–13	2013–14	2014–15	2015–16	2016–17	2017–18	2018–19	2019–20	2020–21	2021–22	2022–23
Entries and exits	284,392	373,219	396,979	393,408	427,820	410,162	393,310	404,212	398,892	388,320	388,612	392,994	383,102	361,038	367,468	369,906	377,582	53,058	229,364	293,274
Interchanges	–Template:Refn	171	195	96	473	117	75	104	188	527	777	800	916	1,185	2,396	27,230	17,952	1,137	8,605	14,504

The statistics cover twelve month periods that start in April.

Services

There are generally two or three trains per hour 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. On Sundays there is generally an hourly service in each direction.

Preceding station	National Rail National Rail			Following station
Dundee	style="background:#Template:XC colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" |	CrossCountry Cross Country Route	style="background:#Template:XC colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" |	Montrose
Carnoustie	style="background:#Template:ScotRail colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" |	ScotRail Dundee–Aberdeen line	style="background:#Template:ScotRail colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" |	Montrose
Carnoustie	style="background:#Template:CS color; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" |	Caledonian Sleeper Highland Caledonian Sleeper	style="background:#Template:CS color; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" |	Montrose
Dundee	style="background:#Template:NXEC colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" |	London North Eastern Railway Northern Lights (London – Aberdeen)	style="background:#Template:NXEC colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" |	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

External links

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

• Train times and station information for Arbroath railway station from National Rail