Invergowrie railway station
Invergowrie  | |
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| Scottish Gaelic: Inbhir Ghobhraidh | |
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| Location | |
| Place | Invergowrie |
| Local authority | Perth and Kinross |
| Coordinates | 56°27′23″N 3°03′28″W / 56.4563°N 3.0578°WCoordinates: 56°27′23″N 3°03′28″W / 56.4563°N 3.0578°W |
| Grid reference | NO349298 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | ING |
| Managed by | Abellio ScotRail |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
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Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries | |
| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2002/03 | 1,345 |
| 2004/05 |
 1,365 |
| 2005/06 |
1,740 |
| 2006/07 |
 1,644 |
| 2007/08 |
1,664 |
| 2008/09 |
1,144 |
| 2009/10 |
1,758 |
| 2010/11 |
2,078 |
| 2011/12 |
2,338 |
| 2012/13 |
2,980 |
| 2013/14 |
4,674 |
| 2014/15 |
4,404 |
| History | |
| Original company | Dundee and Perth Railway |
| Pre-grouping | Caledonian Railway |
| Post-grouping | LMS |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Invergowrie from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
| UK Railways portal | |
Invergowrie railway station is an unstaffed halt which serves the village of Invergowrie west of the city of Dundee, Scotland on the north bank of the Firth of Tay.
It was built by the Dundee and Perth Railway, a constituent company of the Scottish Central Railway and later the Caledonian Railway and opened in 1848. It has been threatened with closure on several occasions since the 1950s, narrowly avoiding the Beeching Axe and being reprieved again by British Rail in 1985 (unlike neighbouring Errol, which closed in September that year).
| Preceding station | National Rail |
Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perth | Abellio ScotRail Glasgow to Aberdeen Line |
Dundee | ||
| Historical railways | ||||
| Longforgan Line open; Station closed |
Dundee and Perth Railway Caledonian Railway |
Ninewells Line open; Station closed | ||
Services (2016)
Only a certain number of trains are booked to call here (currently 13) on the line from Glasgow Queen Street to Dundee. These are mostly limited to the morning & evening business peaks (see the GB National Rail Timetable 229 for details).
There is no Sunday service.
See also
- Invergowrie rail crash on 22 October 1979 after a stop signal is ignored: Five killed and 52 hurt.