Golf Street railway station


Golf Street railway station is located on Golf Street in Carnoustie, Angus, Scotland, and serves the town's central areas. The station opened in 1960 as Golf Street Halt before changing its name on 16 May 1983.
British Rail operated local passenger services between Dundee and Arbroath until May 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 Golf Street with only two trains a day in each direction, Mondays to Saturdays.
Southbound services call at 06:15 to Dundee and at 07:52 for Glasgow Queen Street. Northbound services originate at and, calling at 18:08 and 18:49 respectively and both terminating at. Consequently, patronage of the station is currently very low. In the Strategic Rail Authority's 2002/3 financial year, only nine people paid fares at Golf Street station, with nine disembarking, making it the third least busy station in the United Kingdom, after and neighbouring. In 2005/06 there were 65 passenger entries/exits at the station, but this dropped to 38 in 2006/07.
During the 1999 Open Championship, extra services were laid on to bring spectators to Carnoustie Golf Links, significantly boosting passenger figures for that year.