Dundee
Station 145Rudy visited Dundee on
Friday, 7th October 2022
arriving at 14:48 on a train from Glasgow Queen Street.
Dundee Station
At one time Dundee had three railway stations, Dundee West, Dundee East and Tay Bridge. Tay Bridge was opened in 1878 with the first Tay Rail Bridge and provided the first cross-city passenger line for Dundee. The current station is built on this site.
The station entrance buildings were replaced in the 1960s to allow construction of the Tay Road Bridge and then another round of major reconstruction work took place from 2014 to 2018. As part of the Dundee Waterfront Project a complete new entrance concourse was built as part of a hotel development above the station.
There are still timber bridges from the station across to Riverside Drive originally giving access to station offices they were used as a temporary entrance during the 2014-2018 works.
While most trains at Dundee are operated by ScotRail there are also a few LNER azuma services between Aberdeen & London/Leeds that call here each day.
Dundee is a fully staffed major station. The ticket office is open throughout the day, tickets gates are regularly staffed, and platform staff are present during all passenger train service times.
Despite the tracks being subsurface at Dundee, all four platforms have step free access via a lift from the main concourse. There is also the choice between escalators or proper stairs.
BR Double Arrows at Dundee
We didn’t find any of the standard Scotland branded double arrow totems around Dundee station when we visited! There are the silver arrows on the building side and a red transfer high above the main entrance but no separate signs to be found. We do know from google maps street view that during the new hotel/entrance construction the temporary entrance on Riverside Drive had one.