Golf Street railway station

Golf Street railway station is located on Golf Street in Carnoustie, Angus, Scotland, and serves the town's central areas. The station opened in 1960[3] as Golf Street Halt before changing its name on 16 May 1983.

Golf Street
Scottish Gaelic: Sràid a' Ghoilf[1]
Location
Place	Carnoustie
Local authority	Angus
Coordinates	56.4980°N 2.7200°W / 56.4980; -2.7200
Grid reference	NO557342
Operations
Station code	GOF
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15	86
2015/16	168
2016/17	104
2017/18	268
2018/19	280
History
7 November 1960[2]	Opened as Golf Street Halt
16 May 1983	Renamed as Golf Street
National Rail – UK railway stations
Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Golf Street from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

British Rail operated local passenger services between Dundee and Arbroath until May 1990. Since these were discontinued, most of the intermediate stations have had only a very sparse ("parliamentary") service, provided so as to avoid the difficulty of formal closure procedures. Currently (July 2019), Abellio ScotRail provides Golf Street with only two trains a day in each direction, Mondays to Saturdays (there is no Sunday service).[4]

Southbound services (both commencing at Arbroath) call at 06:15 to Dundee and at 07:52 for Glasgow Queen Street. Northbound services originate at Glasgow Queen Street and Edinburgh Waverley, calling at 18:08 and 18:49 respectively and both terminating at Arbroath. Consequently, patronage of the station is currently very low. In the Strategic Rail Authority's 2002/3 financial year, only nine people (excluding season ticket holders) paid fares at Golf Street station, with nine disembarking, making it the third least busy station in the United Kingdom, after Gainsborough Central and neighbouring Barry Links. In 2005/06 there were 65 passenger entries/exits at the station (9th lowest in the UK), but this dropped to 38 (4th lowest) in 2006/07.[5]

During the 1999 Open Championship, extra services were laid on to bring spectators to Carnoustie Golf Links, significantly boosting passenger figures for that year.[6]