Dyce railway station

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Dyce

Looking west along the line

Location

Place

Dyce

Local authority

Aberdeen

Operations

Managed by

First ScotRail

Platforms in use

Annual Passenger Usage

2004/05 **

0.269 million

History

20 September 1854

Opened

2 October 1965

Closed

1984

Reopened

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Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Dyce.

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Dyce railway station is a railway station serving the town of Dyce, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The station is managed by First ScotRail and is on the Aberdeen to Inverness Line, with some trains operating on the East Coast Main Line beginning or terminating at the station. It also serves nearby Aberdeen Airport.

1 History
2 Station Usage
3 Signalling
4 Raiths Farm

[edit] History

Dyce used to be where the Formartine and Buchan Railway north to Peterhead/Fraserburgh branched off. There is still evidence on the ground of the old platforms which sat on the site of the car park. The former lines to Peterhead/Fraserburgh are now a long distance cycle path, accessible from the western end of the car park.

[edit] Station Usage

Dyce is a popular station with commuters into Aberdeen, there were almost 20,000 season ticket holders using the station in 2004-2005. Dyce also serves the airport, although it doesn't seem to be utilised very much by tourists (due to the fact that the station is on the other side of the airport from the terminal) but it does appear to be popular with oil workers returning from the rigs. A taxi rank addresses issues of getting to the airport terminal, there used to be a bus service running from just outside the signal box but this was scrapped in the late 90s as a result of low passenger usage and to allow the car park to be expanded.

Trains from Dyce also seem attractive to the "casual" user heading into Aberdeen, the journey time (avg. 9 minutes) is a fraction of the time taken by bus (quickest route is 36 minutes on X18), and a cheap day return works out cheaper than a return on the bus.

[edit] Signalling

Dyce Junction signal box, which opened in 1880, is a tall structure located at the south (Aberdeen) end of the station, on the east side of the railway. In 1928, the box was provided with a new frame of 46 levers, now reduced in size to 26 levers.

Dyce still has semaphore signals, but these will be replaced by colour lights in the summer of 2007. The lever frame will be removed from the signal box (to be renamed "Dyce") and a new 'NX' (entrance-exit) panel and relay interlocking will be installed.

[edit] Raiths Farm

A new freight terminal, named "Raiths Farm", is currently under construction to the north of Dyce station, in a field on the west side of the railway. The Raiths Farm facility will replace the Guild Street yard at Aberdeen, allowing the former site, which occupies valuable land close to the city centre, to be redeveloped.

The Raiths Farm layout will comprise arrival and departure lines to the north and south, a run-round loop and four sidings. It is due to become operational in the summer of 2007.

Preceding station		Following station
Aberdeen	First ScotRail Aberdeen to Inverness Line	Inverurie
Historical Railways
Stoneywood Line open; Station closed	Great North of Scotland Railway	Pitmedden Line open; Station closed
Terminus	Formartine and Buchan Railway	Parkhill Line open; Station closed

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