Aberdeen railway station
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- For the railway station in New South Wales, Australia, see Aberdeen railway station, New South Wales.
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| Location | |
| Place | Aberdeen |
| Local authority | Aberdeen City Council |
| Operations | |
| Managed by | First ScotRail |
| Platforms in use | 7 |
| Annual entry/exit 04/05 | 1.932 million ** |
| History | |
| Key dates | Opened 1867 Rebuilt 1913-16 |
| National Rail - UK railway stations | |
| ** based on sales of tickets in 2004/05 financial year which end or originate at Aberdeen. Disclaimer (PDF) | |
Aberdeen railway station is a railway station in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.
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[edit] Rail services
Aberdeen railway station is served by daytime trains from Inverness and from Dundee and the south, including London Kings Cross, England.
In addition, an overnight "sleeper" service connects with London Euston.
[edit] Station services
Medium-term parking is available, but is expensive and it is often difficult to find a space. There are a small number of free spaces which offer parking for 20 minutes only.
There is a "Travel Office" for information and ticket purchasing, as well as automatic ticket machines outside this office. The office often closes well before the last trains have departed.
There is a branch of bookshop/confectioner W H Smith and a pub and café on the concourse. The cafe mainly serves cold food such as sandwiches. Like the ticket office, the shop and café do not open in the late evening.
The toilets require a 20p coin to enter; there are also limited facilities in the café and on most trains.
[edit] History
The station currently standing was built as Aberdeen Joint Station between 1913-16, replacing an 1867 structure of the same name, on the same site. The station and the new Denburn Valley Line enabled the main line from the south and the commuter line from Deeside to connect with the line from the north. The lines from south had previously terminated at the adjacent Aberdeen Guild Street. Even this had not been Aberdeen's first railway station, that distinction belonging to a previous terminus a short way south at Ferryhill. After the construction of the Joint Station, Guild Street Station became a goods station. Some of its tracks remain, but the vast majority of the site was cleared in 2005.
Prior to the construction of the Joint Station, lines from the north had terminated at Aberdeen Waterloo, a short but inconvenient distance along the edge of the harbour. This too became a goods station after the construction of the Joint Station. There is no longer a station at the site, but a goods service runs approximately weekly to industrial operations there. The Waterloo tracks join the north-south connecting Denburn Valley Line in the Kittybrewster area of the city, where the very first terminus of the lines from the north had briefly been, before extension and the building of the Waterloo Station. As far north as Inverurie, these follow the route of the Aberdeenshire Canal which had been purchased and filled in by the Great North of Scotland Railway.
As a result of the grouping of railway companies caused by the Railways Act 1921, Aberdeen came under the auspices of the London and North Eastern Railway. It later became part of British Rail and is now managed by First ScotRail.
[edit] External links
- Train times and station information for Aberdeen railway station from National Rail
- Map and aerial photo of Aberdeen railway station from Multimap.com
[edit] Services
| Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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| Stonehaven | GNER East Coast Main Line |
Terminus | ||
| Portlethen | First ScotRail Edinburgh to Aberdeen Line or Aberdeen to Inverness Line |
Dyce | ||
| Stonehaven | Virgin Trains Cross-Country Route |
Terminus | ||
| Stonehaven | First ScotRail Caledonian Sleeper |
Terminus | ||
| Major UK railway stations |
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| Managed by Network Rail: Birmingham New Street • Edinburgh Waverley • Gatwick Airport • Glasgow Central • Leeds City • Liverpool Lime Street • Manchester Piccadilly |
| Managed by train operator: Aberdeen • Belfast Central • Birmingham Snow Hill • Brighton • Bristol Temple Meads • Cardiff Central • Crewe • Derby • Doncaster • Glasgow Queen Street • Hull • Manchester Victoria • Newcastle Central • Nottingham • Reading • Sheffield • York |
| Railway stations of London: Central area | Greater London |
| Managed by Network Rail: Cannon Street • Charing Cross • Euston • Fenchurch Street • King's Cross • Liverpool Street • London Bridge • Paddington • Victoria • Waterloo |
| Managed by train operator: Blackfriars • Marylebone • Moorgate • St Pancras |
