Dundee railway station
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| External view of Dundee station | |||
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| Place | Central Dundee | ||
| Local authority | Dundee City Council | ||
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| Station code | DEE | ||
| Managed by | First ScotRail | ||
| Platforms in use | 4 | ||
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| Annual Passenger Usage | |||
| 2004/05 ** | 1.438 million | ||
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| Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Dundee. | |||
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Dundee Railway Station serves the city of Dundee on the east coast of Scotland. The station has two through platforms and two terminal platforms. It is situated on the northern, non-electrified section of the East Coast Main Line, 95 km (59¼ miles) north east of Edinburgh.
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[edit] Rail services
Dundee has direct connections to Newcastle, York and London King's Cross, which are every 2 hours on weekdays, plus Virgin Cross Country services to Birmingham and the West Country of England. More frequent services run to Glasgow Queen Street, Edinburgh and Aberdeen.
Dundee was the starting station of the longest direct rail journey in Britain - the 06.43 Virgin Cross Country service to Penzance, which took just over 12 hours to complete. Dundee is now the terminus of the reverse of this journey, the 08:30 Virgin Cross Country service from Penzance which arrives at Dundee at 20:23.
[edit] Station services
A small amount of parking is available, but is relatively expensive and it is often difficult to find a space. There is a larger car park across the road, which is attatched to the Olympia leisure complex. There is also a taxi stance immediately outside of the station building.
There is a "Travel Office" for information and ticket purchasing, as well as an automatic ticket machine outside the office. The office often closes well before the last trains have departed.
There is also a small branch of bookshop/confectioner W H Smith and a pub and café after the automated ticket barrier system 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.
[edit] History
The station was built on the site of Dundee Tay Bridge Station, which had been built by the North British Railway. Until the 1960s, other stations in Dundee included Dundee West, the Caledonian Railway station for Perth and Dundee East Station on the Dundee and Arbroath Joint Railway. Today the only other remaining station in Dundee is Broughty Ferry.
[edit] Recent developments
Until mid-2005, an overhead footbridge which spanned from the railway station to the city's Union Street allowed pedestrians to cross the busy inner ring road safely. This bridge has now been partially demolished as part of a regeneration project called the Dundee Central Waterfront Development Plan. This project will attempt to restructure the approach roads to the Tay Road Bridge, create new civic space, as well as provisionally make way for a new railway station in the future.
[edit] External links
- Train times and station information for Dundee railway station from National Rail
- Map and aerial photo of Dundee railway station from Multimap.com
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