Monifieth railway station

Monifieth
Location
Place	Monifieth
Local authority	Angus
Coordinates	56°28′48″N 2°49′03″W / 56.4799°N 2.8175°W / 56.4799; -2.8175Coordinates: 56°28′48″N 2°49′03″W / 56.4799°N 2.8175°W / 56.4799; -2.8175
Grid reference	NO497322
Operations
Station code	MON
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2002/03	1,031
2004/05	1,333
2005/06	1,757
2006/07	1,897
2007/08	2,106
2008/09	2,082
2009/10	1,170
2010/11	1,288
2011/12	2,394
2012/13	2,570
2013/14	3,122
History
6 October 1838	Station opened
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Monifieth from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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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.

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.

Currently Abellio ScotRail 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.

In July 2012, First ScotRail announced that they were increasing the number of services from 2 per day to 6 per day.^[1] This remains the level of service as of February 2014.^[2] Southbound, two of these are through trains to Edinburgh whilst the other runs to Dundee. Northbound one runs to Arbroath, one to Carnoustie and the third is a late night through service to Aberdeen.

Sources

• Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199. 
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137. 
• RAILSCOT History of Station

References

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Balmossie		Abellio ScotRail Edinburgh to Aberdeen Line Mondays-Saturdays only		Barry Links
	Historical railways
Broughty Ferry Line and Station open		Dundee and Arbroath Railway		Buddon Line open; Station closed