Broughty Ferry railway station

Infobox UK station
name = Broughty Ferry
code = BYF


caption = Broughty Ferry railway station
manager = First ScotRail
locale = Broughty Ferry
borough = Dundee City
lowusage0405 = 4,943
lowusage0506 = 4,996
lowusage0607 = 6,271
platforms = 2

Broughty Ferry railway station serves the suburban town of Broughty Ferry in Dundee, Scotland. The station was opened on October 6 1838 on the Dundee and Arbroath Railway. When North British Railway were granted joint ownership of the line on July 21 1879, the station buildings were gradually rebuilt until around 1900.

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 (summer 2008) First Scotrail provides Broughty Ferry with only two trains a day towards Carnoustie and three trains per day towards Dundee, Mondays to Saturdays. These offer through service to/from Edinburgh and Glasgow, but are not timed conveniently for passengers wishing to commute to Dundee, who were historically the station's raison d'être. There is also a mid morning service (1043) to Edinburgh but again is not at a very handy time. Consequently, patronage of the station is now very low.

Level crossing incident

At 7:20 pm on October 21 1991, a Dundee bound Aberdeen–London Intercity express destroyed two out of the four gates of the level crossing. The fifty passengers on board and five people in a passing car were fortunate to avoid collision when the train passed through the crossing at around 80 miles per hour.cite news
year = 1991
title = 80 mph train misses five "by yards"
work=
publisher = Dundee Courier and Advertiser
pages = 11,14
date = 1991-10-23] The gates had not been closed before the train passed the level crossing. Dundee City Council had had previously postponed planning permission to modernise the gates. They were replaced by the current arrangement of 4 barriers in 1995, with control transferred to Dundee Signalling Centre.Subsequent restoration of the Station saw the removal of the historic footbridge, which now languishes behind the westbound platform, leaving only an underpass for those wishing to cross the line at Gray Street, or the walk the short distance to another overbridge, when the barriers are lowered. The footbridge was closed to the public before the crossing was modernised.

References

External links

* [http://www.railscot.co.uk/Dundee_and_Arbroath_Railway/body.htm#broughty_ferry History of Station]

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