Place Monifieth Station code MON DfT category F2 Number of platforms 2 | Grid reference NO497322 Managed by Abellio ScotRail 2011/12 2,394 | |
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Address Monifieth, Dundee DD5 4NF, United Kingdom Similar Golf Street railway station, Barry Links railway station, Balmossie railway station, Broughty Ferry railway st, Dundee railway station | ||
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.
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Services
British Rail 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.
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. In the current (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 (the first continues on to Inverness), one to Arbroath and one to Carnoustie (the latter three all originating at Glasgow Queen Street) whilst the southbound trains run to Dundee (one in the early morning) and the others through to Edinburgh (one a.m peak and one evening). No trains call here on Sundays.
Future Improvements
Transport Scotland 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 will see an hourly service in each direction to Dundee and Arbroath being introduced.