Carnoustie railway station

Carnoustie
Location
Place	Carnoustie
Local authority	Angus
Coordinates	56°30′03″N 2°42′19″W / 56.5007°N 2.7053°WCoordinates: 56°30′03″N 2°42′19″W / 56.5007°N 2.7053°W
Grid reference	NO566345
Operations
Station code	CAN
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2010/11	91,740
2011/12	0.101 million
2012/13	0.108 million
2013/14	0.120 million
2014/15	0.124 million
History
6 October 1838	Opened
1900	Station relocated
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Carnoustie from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Platform view (1988)

Carnoustie railway station is an unstaffed railway station which serves the town of Carnoustie, Angus, Scotland. The station was opened on 6 October 1838 on the Dundee and Arbroath Railway.

Carnoustie station was extensively refurbished by Galliford Try Rail prior to the 2007 British Open Golf Championship which was held at the adjacent golf course.

Services

The station is served primarily by Abellio ScotRail trains between Glasgow Queen Street and Aberdeen. These call every two hours each way for most of the day, rising to hourly at peak times. A limited number of trains to/from Edinburgh Waverley also call during morning & evening peak periods, whilst two services start/finish here (one of which provides the 'parliamentary' token service to/from most of the local stations en route to Dundee).^[1]

There is also a limited Sunday service (five per day each way in the current timetable) to Glasgow & Aberdeen.

From 2018, Transport Scotland and Scotail are planning to improve the service frequency in each direction here to hourly.^[2]

References

1. GB eNRT 2015-16 Edition, Table 229 (Network Rail)
2. Scotrail rail revolution declared as 39 carriages ‘to be retained by ScotRail’ instead of going elsewhereRail.co.uk news article 25 March 2016; Retrieved 18 August 2016