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Dundee Dundee (; sco, Dundee; gd, Dùn Dè or ) is Scotland's List of towns and cities in Scotland by population, fourth-largest city and the List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, 51st-most-populous built-up area in the United Kingdom. The mi ...
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Dundee City Dundee City Council is the local government authority for the City of Dundee. It was created in 1996 under the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994. History Dundee City became a single-tier council in 1996, under the Local Government ...
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ScotRail ScotRail Trains Limited, trading as ScotRail ( gd, Rèile na h-Alba), is a Scottish train operating company that is publicly owned by Scottish Rail Holdings on behalf of the Scottish Government. It has been operating the ScotRail franchise a ...
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, years = 1 June 1878 , events = Opened as Dundee Tay BridgeButt (1995), page 85 , years1 = 1965 , events1 = Renamed as Dundee , mpassengers = , footnotes = Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road Dundee railway station serves the city of
Dundee Dundee (; sco, Dundee; gd, Dùn Dè or ) is Scotland's List of towns and cities in Scotland by population, fourth-largest city and the List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, 51st-most-populous built-up area in the United Kingdom. The mi ...
on the east coast of
Scotland Scotland (, ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a Anglo-Scottish border, border with England to the southeast ...
. It is situated on the northern, non-electrified section of the
East Coast Main Line The East Coast Main Line (ECML) is a electrified railway between London and Edinburgh via Peterborough, Doncaster, York, Darlington, Durham and Newcastle. The line is a key transport artery on the eastern side of Great Britain running broa ...
, northeast of
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. Dundee is the tenth busiest station in Scotland. In January 2014, the former main station building was demolished to make way for a new building as part of the Dundee Waterfront Project which opened on 9 July 2018. Dundee railway station is where the Edinburgh–Dundee line meets the Glasgow–Dundee line, via
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. It is also the start of the Dundee to Aberdeen line.


History

The station is the rebuilt Dundee Tay Bridge railway station, which had been built by the North British Railway in 1878 as part of the
Tay Rail Bridge The Tay Bridge ( gd, Drochaid-rèile na Tatha) carries the railway across the Firth of Tay in Scotland between Dundee and the suburb of Wormit in Fife. Its span is . It is the second bridge to occupy the site. Plans for a bridge over the Tay ...
project. It was originally one of three main stations in Dundee, along with Dundee West station, the
Caledonian Railway The Caledonian Railway (CR) was a major Scottish railway company. It was formed in the early 19th century with the objective of forming a link between English railways and Glasgow. It progressively extended its network and reached Edinburgh an ...
station for Perth which was rebuilt in 1889-1890 and closed in the 1960s, and Dundee East station on the
Dundee and Arbroath Joint Railway The Dundee and Arbroath Railway was an early railway in Scotland. It opened in 1838, and used the unusual track gauge of 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm). In 1848 it changed to standard gauge and connected to the emerging Scottish railway network ...
which closed in 1959. It is located in cutting at the south end of Camperdown tunnel, which passes beneath the town's former docks (now filled in) and required permanent pumping to keep dry. The station is consequently sited below sea level. In the nineteenth century plans were put forward to concentrate all Dundee's railway facilities in a new central station, with the idea first being mooted by John Leng in 1864 in his role as editor of the ''Dundee Advertiser''. The idea re-emerged in 1872 following the start of work on the
Tay Rail Bridge The Tay Bridge ( gd, Drochaid-rèile na Tatha) carries the railway across the Firth of Tay in Scotland between Dundee and the suburb of Wormit in Fife. Its span is . It is the second bridge to occupy the site. Plans for a bridge over the Tay ...
and again in 1896. Various sites for the scheme were suggested including building it between the High Street and the harbour and between the Murraygate and the Meadows. However none of these proposals were ever realised and the three distinct stations survived as independent entities. Today, the only other remaining station within Dundee City boundaries is . Both and stations are located very close to the city's boundaries, but lie in
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and Perth and Kinross. As part of the redevelopment of Dundee city centre in the 1960s the original public entrance of Dundee Tay Bridge station was demolished to accommodate the new
Tay Road Bridge The Tay Road Bridge ( gd, Drochaid-rathaid na Tatha) carries the A92 road across the Firth of Tay from Newport-on-Tay in Fife to Dundee in Scotland, just downstream of the Tay Rail Bridge. At around , it is one of the longest road bridges in E ...
offramps, with a new smaller structure replacing it. A footbridge connected the new station building to the city's Union Street to allow pedestrians to cross the busy inner ring road safely. In 2005, the footbridge was demolished in two phases as part of a regeneration project called the Dundee Central Waterfront Development Plan. This project, which has included removal of the 1970s public entrance to the station, will attempt to restructure the approach roads to the Tay Road Bridge and create a new civic space, as well as making way for the new railway station.


New station

A new £38m railway station was built in 2018; it replaced the old station as part of the Dundee waterfront regeneration project. The designer of the station was Dundee-based architecture firm Nicoll Russell Studios in collaboration with
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; construction work was carried out by
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. Construction began in late 2015 and a temporary entrance was established on Riverside Drive. The new station was built over the site of the demolished old station. It includes a five-story curved building that houses the new station entrance, concourse and access points on the first and underground floors as well as a 120-room Sleeperz Hotel occupying the upper floors. The new railway station completed construction in early June and opened alongside the new Sleeperz Hotel on 9 July 2018 by Dundee West MSP & then Minister for Public Health and Sport
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, Lord Provost Ian Borthwick and representatives from Dundee City Council.


Facilities

There is a taxi stand immediately outside of the station building, and the main bus interchange is ½-mile walk from the station in the city centre. There is a "Travel Office" for information and ticket purchasing, as well as an automatic ticket machine outside the office. The office often closes well before the last trains have departed. There is also a café adjacent to the automatic ticket gates on the concourse. The café, operated by
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, mainly serves cold food such as sandwiches and hot and cold drinks. Like the ticket office, the café does not open in the late evening. A
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branch opened in 2020, located in the former Tay Bar. A
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opened next to the entrance of the station in 2022.


Platform layout

The station is based on an
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, with two through platforms on the outer sides, and two west-facing bay platforms: * Platform 1 is the westbound through platform. It is used for trains from Arbroath and
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to Glasgow Queen Street and
Edinburgh Waverley Edinburgh Waverley railway station (also known simply as Waverley; gd, Waverley Dhùn Èideann) is the principal railway station serving Edinburgh, Scotland. It is the second busiest station in Scotland, after Glasgow Central station, Glasgow ...
. * Platform 2 and 3 are the bay platforms, used for terminating trains from Edinburgh and Glasgow. * Platform 4 is the eastbound through platform, used for trains towards Arbroath and Aberdeen.


Passenger volume

The statistics cover twelve month periods that start in April.


Services

There are direct connections to London King's Cross and
London Euston Euston railway station ( ; also known as London Euston) is a central London railway terminus in the London Borough of Camden, managed by Network Rail. It is the southern terminus of the West Coast Main Line, the UK's busiest inter-city rail ...
, plus CrossCountry Trains along the
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to
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via ,
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, ,
Bristol Temple Meads Bristol Temple Meads is the oldest and largest railway station in Bristol, England. It is located away from London Paddington. It is an important transport hub for public transport in the city; there are bus services to many parts of the city ...
and . More frequent services run to ,
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and . Off-peak services that operate from the station are:eNRT May 2022 Edition, Tables 20, 50, 214, 215, 220 :


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Video footage of Dundee railway station
{{Railway stations served by CrossCountry Railway stations in Dundee Former North British Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1878 Railway stations served by ScotRail Railway stations served by Caledonian Sleeper Railway stations served by CrossCountry Railway stations served by London North Eastern Railway