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Broughty Ferry railway station serves the suburban town of Broughty Ferry
Broughty Ferry

Broughty Ferry is a suburb on the eastern edge of the City of Dundee, situated on the shore of the Firth of Tay in eastern Scotland. "The Ferry" was formerly an independent burgh from 1864 until it was absorbed into the Royal Burgh of Dundee in 1913....
 in Dundee
Dundee

Dundee is the fourth-largest City status in the United Kingdom in Scotland and, fully named as Dundee City, one of Scotland's 32 Local government in Scotland Council areas of Scotland....
, Scotland
Scotland

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. The station was opened on October 6 1838 on the Dundee and Arbroath Railway
Dundee and Arbroath Railway

The Dundee and Arbroath Railway was a railway link between those two towns in Scotland which ran along the banks of the River Tay....
. When North British Railway
North British Railway

The North British Railway was a Scotland rail transport company that was absorbed into the London and North Eastern Railway at the Railways Act 1921 in 1923....
 were granted joint ownership of the line on July 21 1879, the station buildings were gradually rebuilt until around 1900.

British Rail operated local passenger services between Dundee and Arbroath until around 1990. Since these were discontinued, most of the intermediate stations have had only a very sparse service, provided so as to avoid the difficulty of formal closure procedures.






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Broughty Ferry railway station serves the suburban town of Broughty Ferry
Broughty Ferry

Broughty Ferry is a suburb on the eastern edge of the City of Dundee, situated on the shore of the Firth of Tay in eastern Scotland. "The Ferry" was formerly an independent burgh from 1864 until it was absorbed into the Royal Burgh of Dundee in 1913....
 in Dundee
Dundee

Dundee is the fourth-largest City status in the United Kingdom in Scotland and, fully named as Dundee City, one of Scotland's 32 Local government in Scotland Council areas of Scotland....
, Scotland
Scotland

conventional_long_name = ScotlandAlba|common_name= Scotland|image_flag = Flag of Scotland.svg|flag_width = 130px...
. The station was opened on October 6 1838 on the Dundee and Arbroath Railway
Dundee and Arbroath Railway

The Dundee and Arbroath Railway was a railway link between those two towns in Scotland which ran along the banks of the River Tay....
. When North British Railway
North British Railway

The North British Railway was a Scotland rail transport company that was absorbed into the London and North Eastern Railway at the Railways Act 1921 in 1923....
 were granted joint ownership of the line on July 21 1879, the station buildings were gradually rebuilt until around 1900.

British Rail operated local passenger services between Dundee and Arbroath until around 1990. Since these were discontinued, most of the intermediate stations have had only a very sparse service, provided so as to avoid the difficulty of formal closure procedures. Currently (summer 2008) First Scotrail
First ScotRail

First ScotRail is the FirstGroup train operating company running domestic passenger trains within Scotland and the cross-border Caledonian Sleeper service to London....
 provides Broughty Ferry with only two trains a day towards Carnoustie and three trains per day towards Dundee, Mondays to Saturdays. These offer through service to/from Edinburgh and Glasgow, but are not timed conveniently for passengers wishing to commute to Dundee, who were historically the station's raison d'être
Raison D'être

Raison d'?tre is a phrase borrowed from French where it means simply "reason for being"; in English use it also comes to suggest a degree of rationalization, as "The claimed reason for the existence of something or someone"....
. There is also a mid morning service (1043) to Edinburgh but again is not at a very handy time. Consequently, patronage of the station is now very low.

Level crossing incident

At 7:20 pm on October 21 1991, a Dundee bound Aberdeen
Aberdeen railway station

Aberdeen railway station is a railway station in Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom....
–London Intercity express
InterCity 125

The InterCity 125 was the brand name of British Rail's High Speed Train fleet. The InterCity 125 train is made up of two power cars, one at each end of a fixed formation of carriages, and is capable of in regular service....
 destroyed two out of the four gates of the level crossing. The fifty passengers on board and five people in a passing car were fortunate to avoid collision when the train passed through the crossing at around 80 miles per hour. The gates had not been closed before the train passed the level crossing. Dundee City Council had previously postponed planning permission to modernise the gates. They were replaced by the current arrangement of 4 barriers in 1995, with control transferred to Dundee Signalling Centre. Subsequent restoration of the Station saw the removal of the historic footbridge, which now languishes behind the westbound platform, leaving only an underpass for those wishing to cross the line at Gray Street, or the walk the short distance to another overbridge, when the barriers are lowered. The footbridge was closed to the public before the crossing was modernised.

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