Monifieth railway station


Monifieth railway station serves the town of Monifieth near Dundee, Scotland. The original station buildings have been demolished and recovered parts used for the Birkhill railway station building on the Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway.

History

The station was opened on 6 October 1838 on the 5ft 6in gauge Dundee and Arbroath Railway. The station had two platforms either side of a double track running line. The goods yard was to the north of the station. The railway changed to standard gauge in 1847.
A camping coach was positioned here by the Scottish Region from 1956 to 1966, with two coaches here for the last two years.

Services

Current Services

2018/19

Monday to Saturday: There is an approximately hourly service in each direction, to both Edinburgh via Dundee and Kirkcaldy, and to Arbroath. This takes the daily number of services from 7 up to 28, as part of a service upgrade between Dundee and Arbroath.
Sunday: There is currently no Sunday service.

Past

1990s

operated a local passenger service to the intermediate stations 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.

2012

In July 2012, First ScotRail announced that they were increasing the number of services calling here from 2 per day to 6 per day from the December timetable change.

2016

In the May 2016 timetable, a further northbound call has been provided to bring the total number of station stops here to seven. Northbound, two trains run through to Aberdeen, one to and one to whilst the southbound trains run to Dundee and the others through to Edinburgh. No trains call here on Sundays.

2018/19 Service Improvements

announced in March 2016 that Monifieth would be one of several stations to benefit from a timetable upgrade that will see 200 additional services introduced across the Scotrail network from 2018. This has seen a mostly hourly service in each direction to Dundee and Arbroath being introduced Mon-Sat. Nearly all southbound trains continue to Edinburgh, serving major intermediate stations en route.