Arbroath railway station
Arbroath 
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Arbroath railway station
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| Location | |
| Place | Arbroath |
| Local authority | Angus |
| Coordinates | 56°33′34″N 2°35′21″W / 56.5594°N 2.5892°WCoordinates: 56°33′34″N 2°35′21″W / 56.5594°N 2.5892°W |
| Grid reference | NO638409 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | ARB |
| Managed by | Abellio ScotRail |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 0.399 million |
| – Interchange |
 188 |
| 2012/13 |
0.388 million |
| – Interchange |
527 |
| 2013/14 |
0.389 million |
| – Interchange |
777 |
| 2014/15 |
0.393 million |
| – Interchange |
800 |
| 2015/16 |
0.383 million |
| – Interchange |
916 |
| History | |
| Original company | Arbroath and Forfar Railway & Dundee and Arbroath Railway |
| Pre-grouping | CR & NBR |
| Post-grouping | LMS & LNER |
| 1 February 1848 | Opened |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Arbroath from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Arbroath railway station serves the town of Arbroath in Angus, Scotland. The station is 17 miles (27 km) east of Dundee on the line between Dundee and Aberdeen.
There have been three stations called "Arbroath", two of which closed in 1848. One - Arbroath Catherine Street - served the Arbroath and Forfar Railway; the other - Arbroath Lady Loan or Arbroath West - was on the Dundee and Arbroath Railway. The current station was originally opened by the Dundee and Arbroath Railway on 1 February 1848 as a link station to connect the Arbroath and Forfar Railway with the Dundee and Arbroath Railway. On 1 October 1880 the North British, Arbroath and Montrose Railway opened north towards Montrose.
Jointly run by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and the London and North Eastern Railway after the Grouping of 1923, the station then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.
When sectorisation was introduced by British Rail in the 1980s, the station was served by Scotrail until the privatisation of British Rail.
Until 1990, the station had 3 active platforms and was the terminus of a regular local service from Perth & Dundee that called at all of the intermediate local stations between the latter station and here. This was mostly withdrawn at the May 1990 timetable change (due to a low usage & a rolling stock shortage) and the residual service that still operates now starts & terminates at Carnoustie. The former platform 3 and its associated loop has also been taken out of use & lifted.
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