Monifieth railway station
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Monifieth railway station serves the town of Monifieth
near Dundee
, Scotland
. The station was opened on 6 October 1838 on the Dundee and Arbroath Railway
. The original station buildings have since been demolished, and recovered parts used for the Birkhill railway station
building on the Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway
.
provides Monifieth with only one train a day in each direction to/from Edinburgh, Mondays to Saturdays, plus an early morning service to Glasgow with no return working. Although these offer through service to Edinburgh, they are not timed conveniently for passengers wishing to commute to Dundee. Consequently, patronage of the station is currently very low.
Monifieth
Monifieth is a town and former police burgh in the council area of Angus, Scotland. It is situated on the North bank of the Firth of Tay on the East Coast...
near Dundee
Dundee
Dundee is the fourth-largest city in Scotland and the 39th most populous settlement in the United Kingdom. It lies within the eastern central Lowlands on the north bank of the Firth of Tay, which feeds into the North Sea...
, Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
. The station was opened on 6 October 1838 on the Dundee and Arbroath Railway
Dundee and Arbroath Railway
The Dundee and Arbroath Railway was a railway link between those two towns in Scotland.-History:The railway company received its Parliamentary Act on 19 May 1836. It was planned as a gauge railway, because, at that time, it was expected to be a purely local railway with no connection to the...
. The original station buildings have since been demolished, and recovered parts used for the Birkhill railway station
Birkhill railway station
Birkhill railway station is a railway station on the Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway in Scotland, equidistant from Grangemouth, Bo'ness, Linlithgow and Polmont....
building on the Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway
Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway
The Bo’ness and Kinneil Railway is a Heritage railway in Falkirk, Scotland. It is operated by the Scottish Railway Preservation Society, and operates some 5 miles of track, virtually the entire Slamannan and Borrowstounness Railway that became part of the former North British Railway on the Firth...
.
Services
British Rail operated local passenger services between Dundee and Arbroath until around 1990. Since these were discontinued, most of the intermediate stations have had only a very sparse service, provided so as to avoid the difficulty of formal closure procedures.Summer 2008
Currently First ScotRailFirst ScotRail
ScotRail Railways Ltd. is the FirstGroup-owned train operating company running domestic passenger trains within Scotland, northern England and the cross-border Caledonian Sleeper service to London using the brand ScotRail which is the property of the Scottish Government...
provides Monifieth with only one train a day in each direction to/from Edinburgh, Mondays to Saturdays, plus an early morning service to Glasgow with no return working. Although these offer through service to Edinburgh, they are not timed conveniently for passengers wishing to commute to Dundee. Consequently, patronage of the station is currently very low.