Dundee railway station
Dundee 
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| Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Dè | |
External view of Dundee station (this entrance has now been demolished)
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| Location | |
| Place | Dundee |
| Local authority | Dundee |
| Coordinates | 56°27′24″N 2°58′16″W / 56.4566°N 2.9710°WCoordinates: 56°27′24″N 2°58′16″W / 56.4566°N 2.9710°W |
| Grid reference | NO402298 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | DEE |
| Managed by | Abellio ScotRail |
| Number of platforms | 4 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2010/11 |
 1.720 million |
| - Interchange |
 52,468 |
| 2011/12 |
1.723 million |
| - Interchange |
59,229 |
| 2012/13 |
1.690 million |
| - Interchange |
61,218 |
| 2013/14 |
1.738 million |
| - Interchange |
67,746 |
| 2014/15 |
1.836 million |
| - Interchange |
68,512 |
| History | |
| Original company | North British Railway |
| Post-grouping | LNER |
| 1 June 1878 | Opened as Dundee Tay Bridge |
| 1965? | Renamed as Dundee |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Dundee from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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, 59¼ miles (95 km) northeast of Edinburgh. As of January 2014, the main station building has been demolished to make way for a new building as part of the Dundee Waterfront Project.
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 project. 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. 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.
Today, the only other remaining station within Dundee City boundaries is Broughty Ferry. Both Balmossie and Invergowrie stations are located very close to the cites boundaries, but lie in Angus 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 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.
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