Barry Links railway station

Barry Links National Rail
Scottish Gaelic: Machair Bharraidh[1]
Location
Place Barry
Local authority Angus
Coordinates 56°29′36″N 2°44′44″W / 56.4932°N 2.7456°W / 56.4932; -2.7456Coordinates: 56°29′36″N 2°44′44″W / 56.4932°N 2.7456°W / 56.4932; -2.7456
Grid reference NO542336
Operations
Station code BYL
Managed by Abellio ScotRail
Number of platforms 2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2012/13 Decrease 52
2013/14 Decrease 40
2014/15 Increase 60
2015/16 Increase 68
2016/17 Decrease 24
History
Original company Dundee and Arbroath Railway
Pre-grouping Caledonian Railway
Post-grouping LMS
31 July 1851 Opened as Barry[2]
1 April 1919 Renamed as Barry Links[2]
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Barry Links from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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The station in 1974

Barry Links railway station is a railway station serving the village of Barry, west of Carnoustie, Angus, Scotland. The station is managed by Abellio ScotRail and is on the Edinburgh to Aberdeen Line. It is currently the least used station in the UK with only 24 recorded passengers in the year.

History

The station was opened on 31 July 1851 by Dundee and Arbroath Railway, and was named Barry.[2] The station was renamed to its current name on 1 April 1919.[2]

In the Strategic Rail Authority's 2002/03 financial year, only three fare-paying people (excluding season ticket holders) boarded trains at Barry Links station, and five disembarked, making it the least busy station in the United Kingdom, tied with Gainsborough Central. Since then, there has been a modest increase in passenger numbers: 26 entries/exits in 2004/05 (3rd lowest in the UK), 28 in 2005/06 (3rd lowest) and 44 in 2006/07 (5th lowest). In the 2011/12 statistics, Barry Links had the 7th lowest passenger numbers. The low numbers reflect the fact that the current service (May 2015 timetable) is very sparse – only two trains per day in total stop at the station (one each way, Mondays to Saturdays only), limiting use and growth.[3] In the 2016-17 statistics, Barry Links again became the least used station in Britain, receiving only 24 entries and exits.[4][5]

Services

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Monifieth   Abellio ScotRail
Edinburgh to Aberdeen Line
Mondays-Saturdays only		   Golf Street
  Historical railways  
Buddon
Line open; station closed		   Caledonian Railway and North British Railway
Dundee and Arbroath Railway
   Carnoustie
Line and station open

References

Notes

  1. ↑ Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Butt, page 28
  3. ↑ GB National Rail Timetable 229 - Edinburgh and Glasgow Queen Street - Perth, Inverness, Dundee, Aberdeen, Dyce and Inverurie, May - December 2015Network Rail; Retrieved 18-08-2015
  4. ↑
  5. ↑ "Scottish railway station is least used in Britain". BBC News. Retrieved 1 December 2017.

Sources

  • Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.
  • Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
  • Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
  • Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
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