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Brief Review Of Trains To Dundee
Dundee is the fourth-largest city in Scotland and, fully named as Dundee City, one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. It is on the north bank of the River Tay's estuary which feeds into the North Sea. Dundee's history begins with the Picts in the Iron Age. During the Medieval Era, it was the site of many battles. The port developed initially on the back of the wool trade exporting wool from the Angus hinterland. Once it was cheaper to produce linen, which had supplanted the wool trade and was itself under pressure from cotton abroad, the weavers turned their skills to weaving imported jute.
The weaving industry caused the city to grow rapidly with many migrant workers though the town contained very few stone buildings prior to 1860. In this period, Dundee also gained a reputation for its marmalade industry and its journalism, giving Dundee its epithet as the city of jam, jute and journalism. Dundee railway station serves the city of Dundee on the east coast of Scotland. The station has two through platforms and two terminal platforms. It is situated on the northern, non-electrified section of the East Coast Main Line, 95 km (59 miles) north east of Edinburgh.
The station is the rebuilt Dundee Tay Bridge railway station, which had been built by the North British Railway. Until the 1960s, other stations in Dundee included Dundee West, the Caledonian Railway station for Perth and Dundee East Station on the Dundee and Arbroath Joint Railway. Today the only other remaining station in Dundee is Broughty Ferry. Until mid-2005, an overhead footbridge which spanned from the railway station to the city's Union Street allowed pedestrians to cross the busy inner ring road safely. This bridge has now been demolished, in two phases, as part of a regeneration project called the Dundee Central Waterfront Development Plan. This project will attempt to restructure the approach roads to the Tay Road Bridge, create new civic space, as well as provisionally make way for a new railway station in the future.
Dundee has direct connections to Newcastle, York and London King's Cross, plus CrossCountry Trains services to Birmingham and the West Country of England. More frequent services run to Glasgow Queen Street, Edinburgh and Aberdeen. Dundee was the starting station of the longest direct rail journey in Britain- the 06.43 Virgin Cross Country service to Penzance, which took just over 12 hours to complete. The station was the terminus of the reverse of this journey, the 08:30 Arriva CrossCountry service from Penzance which arrived at Dundee at 20:25. A small amount of parking is available, operated by Dundee City Council, although it is relatively expensive and is often difficult to find a space.
There is a larger car park across the road, which is attached to the Olympia leisure complex. There is also a taxi stance immediately outside of the station building, and the main bus interchange is a five minute 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 small branch of bookshop/confectioner W H Smith and a bar and cafe after the automated ticket barrier on the concourse.
The cafe, a branch of Pumpkin, mainly serves cold food such as sandwiches, and hot and cold drinks. Like the ticket office, the shop and cafe do not open in the late evening. One Train per day to London Euston from Aberdeen via Edinburgh, Preston and Crewe. (Caledonian Sleeper), One Train per day to Aberdeen from London Euston via Crewe, Preston and Edinburgh*. (Caledonian Sleeper), Passengers are not allowed to board or alight at Edinburgh Waverley. This is where the Sleepers to/from Fort William, Inverness and Aberdeen join/separate.
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