Aberdeen railway station
Aberdeen 
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Concourse at Aberdeen station.
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| Location | |
| Place | Aberdeen |
| Local authority | Aberdeen City Council |
| Coordinates | 57°08′37″N 2°05′55″W / 57.1436°N 2.0985°WCoordinates: 57°08′37″N 2°05′55″W / 57.1436°N 2.0985°W |
| Grid reference | NJ941058 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | ABD |
| Managed by | Abellio ScotRail |
| Number of platforms | 7 (1 platform out of use) |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 3.170 million |
| – Interchange |
0.197 million |
| 2012/13 |
3.338 million |
| – Interchange |
0.201 million |
| 2013/14 |
3.599 million |
| – Interchange |
0.219 million |
| 2014/15 |
3.742 million |
| – Interchange |
 0.219 million |
| 2015/16 |
 3.460 million |
| – Interchange |
0.204 million |
| History | |
| Original company | Denburn Valley Line |
| Pre-grouping | CR & GNoSR |
| Post-grouping | LMS & LNER |
| 4 November 1867 | Station opened as Aberdeen Joint to replace Aberdeen Guild Street and Aberdeen Waterloo |
| 1913-1916 | Rebuilt |
| 1952 | Renamed Aberdeen |
| 2007-2008 | Major refurbishment |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Aberdeen from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Aberdeen railway station is the main railway station in Aberdeen, Scotland. It is the busiest railway station in Scotland north of the major cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh. It is located on Guild Street in the city centre, next to Union Square.
The station is managed by Abellio ScotRail. Inter-city, regional, local and sleeper train services are provided to all parts of Great Britain by Abellio ScotRail, Caledonian Sleeper, CrossCountry and Virgin Trains East Coast.
The station currently standing was built as Aberdeen Joint Station between 1913–16, replacing an 1867 structure of the same name, on the same site. The station and the new Denburn Valley Line enabled the main line from the south and the commuter line from Deeside to connect with the line from the north. The lines from the south had previously terminated at the adjacent Aberdeen Guild Street. Even this had not been Aberdeen's first railway station, that distinction belonging to a previous terminus a short way south at Ferryhill. After the construction of the Joint Station, Guild Street Station became a goods station. Some of its tracks remain, but the vast majority of the site was cleared in 2005.
Prior to the construction of the Joint Station, lines from the north had terminated at Aberdeen Waterloo, a short but inconvenient distance along the edge of the harbour. This too became a goods station after the construction of the Joint Station. There is no longer a station at the site, but a goods service runs approximately weekly to industrial operations there. The Waterloo tracks join the north-south connecting Denburn Valley Line in the Kittybrewster area of the city, where the very first terminus of the lines from the north had briefly been, before extension and the building of the Waterloo Station. As far north as Inverurie, these follow the route of the Aberdeenshire Canal which had been purchased and filled in by the Great North of Scotland Railway.
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