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Peterborough railway station, South Australia
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Peterborough railway station is located on the Crystal Brook-Broken Hill line in Peterborough, South Australia. Peterborough originally opened in January 1880 as Petersburg when a narrow gauge line opened from Port Pirie to the west, in November 1881, a line arrived from Terowie and the south, in 1882 it was extended north to Quorn. In 1888, a line was built eastwards to Broken Hill, thus Petersburg became a four-way junction station and the town was the headquarters for the South Australian Railways narrow gauge network, with an extensive locomotive depot. A roundhouse was added in 1927, the roundhouse and turntable are listed on the South Australian Heritage Register. The station along with the town, was renamed Peterborough in 1917, as part of the standardisation project, the line between Port Augusta and Broken Hill was converted to standard gauge in 1970, thus Peterborough became a break of gauge station. Following the conversion of the Adelaide to Crystal Brook line to standard gauge in 1982, by 1988, both the narrow gauge line to the north and broad gauge line to the south had closed. Today the former roundhouse is home to the Steamtown Heritage Rail Centre, the only passenger rail service which stops at the station is Great Southern Rails weekly Indian Pacific service operating between Sydney and Perth. Media related to Peterborough railway station at Wikimedia Commons Flickr gallery Johnnys Pages gallery Johnnys Pages gallery
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National Rail
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The name and the accompanying double arrow symbol are the intellectual property of the Secretary of State for Transport. The National Rail logo was introduced by ATOC in 1999, and was used on the Great Britain public timetable for the first time in the edition valid from 26 September in that year. Rules for its use are set out in the Corporate Identity Style Guidelines published by the Rail Delivery Group, the NR title is sometimes described as a brand. As it was used by British Rail, the operator before franchising, its use also maintains continuity and public familiarity. National Rail should not be confused with Network Rail, the two networks are generally coincident where passenger services are run. Most major Network Rail lines carry traffic and some lines are freight only. About twenty privately owned operating companies, each franchised for a defined term by government. The Rail Delivery Group is the association representing the TOCs and provides core services. It also runs Rail Settlement Plan, which allocates ticket revenue to the various TOCs, and Rail Staff Travel and it does not compile the national timetable, which is the joint responsibility of the Office of Rail Regulation and Network Rail. Since the privatisation of British Rail there is no longer a single approach to design on railways in Great Britain, the look and feel of signage, liveries and marketing material is largely the preserve of the individual TOCs. However, National Rail continues to use BRs famous double-arrow symbol and it has been incorporated in the National Rail logotype and is displayed on tickets, the National Rail website and other publicity. The trademark rights to the arrow symbol remain state-owned, being vested in the Secretary of State for Transport. The double arrow was already prescribed for indicating a railway station, the lettering used in the National Rail logotype is a modified form of the typeface Sassoon Bold. It is a misconception that Rail Alphabet was also used for printed material. The British Rail typefaces of choice from 1965 were Helvetica and Univers, TOCs may use what they like, examples include Futura, Helvetica, Frutiger, Bliss, and a modified version of Precious by London Midland. Several conurbations have their own metro or tram systems, most of which are not part of National Rail, LO now also possesses some infrastructure in its own right, following the reopening of the former East London line of London Underground as the East London Railway of LO. Heathrow Express and Eurostar are also not part of the National Rail network despite sharing of stations, northern Ireland Railways were never part of British Rail, which was always confined to Great Britain, and therefore are not part of the National Rail network. National Rail services have a common ticketing structure inherited from British Rail, through tickets are available between any pair of stations on the network, and can be bought from any station ticket office
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Peterborough
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Peterborough is a cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, England, with a population of 183,631 in 2011. Historically part of Northamptonshire, it is 75 miles north of London, on the River Nene which flows into the North Sea 30 miles to the north-east, the railway station is an important stop on the East Coast Main Line between London and Edinburgh. The local topography is flat and in some places lies below sea level, human settlement in the area began before the Bronze Age, as can be seen at the Flag Fen archaeological site to the east of the current city centre, also with evidence of Roman occupation. The Anglo-Saxon period saw the establishment of a monastery, Medeshamstede, the population grew rapidly following the arrival of the railways in the 19th century, and Peterborough became an industrial centre, particularly noted for its brick manufacture. Following the Second World War, growth was limited until designation as a New Town in the 1960s, housing and population are expanding and a £1 billion regeneration of the city centre and immediately surrounding area is underway. In common with much of the United Kingdom, industrial employment has fallen, with a significant proportion of new jobs in financial services and distribution. The contrasting form Gildenburgh is also found in the 12th century history of the abbey, present-day Peterborough is the latest in a series of settlements which have at one time or other benefited from its site where the Nene leaves large areas of permanently drained land for the fens. Remains of Bronze Age settlement and what is thought to be religious activity can be seen at the Flag Fen archaeological site to the east of the city centre. The Romans established a garrison town at Durobrivae on Ermine Street, five miles to the west in Water Newton. Durobrivaes earliest appearance among surviving records is in the Antonine Itinerary of the late 2nd century. There was also a large 1st century Roman fort at Longthorpe, designed to house half a legion, or about 3,000 soldiers, it may have been established as early as around AD 44–48. Peterborough was an important area of production in the Roman period, providing Nene Valley Ware that was traded as far away as Cornwall. His brother Wulfhere murdered his own sons, similarly converted and then finished the monastery by way of atonement, Hereward, the outlaw, wake or exile, set off with supporters from his exile in Flanders and rampaged through the town in 1069 or 1070. The abbey church was rebuilt and greatly enlarged in the 12th century, the Peterborough Chronicle, a version of the Anglo-Saxon one, contains unique information about the history of England after the Norman conquest, written here by monks in the 12th century. This is the only prose history in English between the conquest and the later 14th century. The burgesses received their first charter from Abbot Robert – probably Robert of Sutton, the abbey church became one of Henry VIIIs retained, more secular, cathedrals in 1541, having been assessed at the Dissolution as having revenue at £1,972.7. ¾ per annum. When civil war broke out, Peterborough was divided between supporters of King Charles I and supporters of the Long Parliament, the Royalist forces were defeated within a few weeks and retreated to Burghley House, where they were captured and sent to Cambridge. Housing and sanitary improvements were effected under the provisions of an Act of Parliament passed in 1790, among the privileges claimed by the abbot as early as the 13th century was that of having a prison for felons taken in the Soke of Peterborough
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Geographic coordinate system
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A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system used in geography that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation, to specify a location on a two-dimensional map requires a map projection. The invention of a coordinate system is generally credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene. Ptolemy credited him with the adoption of longitude and latitude. Ptolemys 2nd-century Geography used the prime meridian but measured latitude from the equator instead. Mathematical cartography resumed in Europe following Maximus Planudes recovery of Ptolemys text a little before 1300, in 1884, the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference, attended by representatives from twenty-five nations. Twenty-two of them agreed to adopt the longitude of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, the Dominican Republic voted against the motion, while France and Brazil abstained. France adopted Greenwich Mean Time in place of local determinations by the Paris Observatory in 1911, the latitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle between the equatorial plane and the straight line that passes through that point and through the center of the Earth. Lines joining points of the same latitude trace circles on the surface of Earth called parallels, as they are parallel to the equator, the north pole is 90° N, the south pole is 90° S. The 0° parallel of latitude is designated the equator, the plane of all geographic coordinate systems. The equator divides the globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres, the longitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle east or west of a reference meridian to another meridian that passes through that point. All meridians are halves of great ellipses, which converge at the north and south poles, the prime meridian determines the proper Eastern and Western Hemispheres, although maps often divide these hemispheres further west in order to keep the Old World on a single side. The antipodal meridian of Greenwich is both 180°W and 180°E, the combination of these two components specifies the position of any location on the surface of Earth, without consideration of altitude or depth. The grid formed by lines of latitude and longitude is known as a graticule, the origin/zero point of this system is located in the Gulf of Guinea about 625 km south of Tema, Ghana. To completely specify a location of a feature on, in, or above Earth. Earth is not a sphere, but a shape approximating a biaxial ellipsoid. It is nearly spherical, but has an equatorial bulge making the radius at the equator about 0. 3% larger than the radius measured through the poles, the shorter axis approximately coincides with the axis of rotation
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Ordnance Survey National Grid
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The Ordnance Survey National Grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references used in Great Britain, different from using Latitude and Longitude. It is often called British National Grid, the Ordnance Survey devised the national grid reference system, and it is heavily used in their survey data, and in maps based on those surveys. Grid references are commonly quoted in other publications and data sources. The Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate system is used to provide references for worldwide locations. European-wide agencies also use UTM when mapping locations, or may use the Military Grid Reference System system, the grid is based on the OSGB36 datum, and was introduced after the retriangulation of 1936–1962. It replaced the previously used Cassini Grid which, up to the end of World War Two, had issued only to the military. The Airy ellipsoid is a regional best fit for Britain, more modern mapping tends to use the GRS80 ellipsoid used by the GPS, the British maps adopt a Transverse Mercator projection with an origin at 49° N, 2° W. Over the Airy ellipsoid a straight grid, the National Grid, is placed with a new false origin. This false origin is located south-west of the Isles of Scilly, the distortion created between the OS grid and the projection is countered by a scale factor in the longitude to create two lines of longitude with zero distortion rather than one. Grid north and true north are aligned on the 400 km easting of the grid which is 2° W. 2° 0′ 5″ W. OSGB36 was also used by Admiralty nautical charts until 2000 after which WGS84 has been used, a geodetic transformation between OSGB36 and other terrestrial reference systems can become quite tedious if attempted manually. The most common transformation is called the Helmert datum transformation, which results in a typical 7 m error from true, the definitive transformation from ETRS89 that is published by the OSGB is called the National Grid Transformation OSTN02. This models the detailed distortions in the 1936–1962 retriangulation, and achieves backwards compatibility in grid coordinates to sub-metre accuracy, the difference between the coordinates on different datums varies from place to place. The longitude and latitude positions on OSGB36 are the same as for WGS84 at a point in the Atlantic Ocean well to the west of Great Britain. In Cornwall, the WGS84 longitude lines are about 70 metres east of their OSGB36 equivalents, the smallest datum shift is on the west coast of Scotland and the greatest in Kent. But Great Britain has not shrunk by 100+ metres, a point near Lands End now computes to be 27.6 metres closer to a point near Duncansby Head than it did under OSGB36. For the first letter, the grid is divided into squares of size 500 km by 500 km, there are four of these which contain significant land area within Great Britain, S, T, N and H. The O square contains an area of North Yorkshire, almost all of which lies below mean high tide
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Virgin Trains East Coast
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It commenced operations on 1 March 2015, taking over from East Coast. It is a joint venture between Stagecoach and Virgin Group, in January 2014, FirstGroup, Keolis/Eurostar and Stagecoach/Virgin were announced as the shortlisted bidders for the new InterCity East Coast franchise. Virgin Trains East Coast took over all of the operated by East Coast. In May 2016, a number of services to Newcastle were extended to Edinburgh meaning there is almost a complete half hourly service between the two cities. Since December 2016, Morpeth has benefited from additional stops provided by the operator to improve connections to Edinburgh, VTEC are proposing to extend services that terminate at Newark and York to Lincoln and Harrogate respectively. In May 2019, it is proposed that a service to Edinburgh be introduced with a fleet of six to eight 9-car InterCity 225 sets operating limited stops services. In May 2020, it is proposed to extend services to Huddersfield, Virgin Trains East Coast inherited a fleet of InterCity 125 and InterCity 225s from East Coast. Most driving vehicles received a Virgin logo within the first three days of the franchise, and all train sets received a full Virgin Trains East Coast livery by November 2015, attention then turned to the interiors, with toilets to be refreshed and seat covers and carpets replaced. The first refurbished set entered service on 31 December 2015, in July 2015, an additional InterCity 125 set was transferred from East Midlands Trains. In September 2016, Virgin Trains East Coast hired three Class 90s from DB Cargo for use on services to Newark, York and Leeds, all of the current fleet are scheduled to be replaced by Class 800/Class 801 high-speed trains from December 2018. These will operate in 9-carriage and 5-carriage sets, in March 2016, VTEC announced that its IEP trains would carry the brand name Azuma, the Japanese word for East. If VTECs application to operate extra limited stops services to Edinburgh is successful and it combines figures for punctuality and reliability into a single performance measure. The most recent figure for Virgin Trains East Coasts PPM was 82. 0%, the moving annual average PPM was 86. 9%. Virgin Trains East Coast is forecast to pay premiums to the government than its predecessor East Coast did, £3.3 billion over eight years. In August 2016, a video was released of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in which he said he was forced to sit on the floor on a VTEC train to Newcastle because the train was ram-packed. At the time, Corbyn said Is it fair that I should upgrade my ticket whilst others who might not be able to afford such a luxury should have to sit on the floor, it’s their money I would be spending after all. Corbyn said about the incident Yes, I did walk through the train, Yes, I did look for two empty seats together so I could sit down with my wife, to talk to her. That wasnt possible so I went to the end of the train, media related to Virgin Trains East Coast at Wikimedia Commons Official website
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Inverness railway station
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Inverness railway station is the railway station serving the Scottish city of Inverness. Opened on 5 November 1855 as the terminus of the Inverness and Nairn Railway to designs by the architect. The platform roofs were extended in 1876 by Murdoch Paterson, between 1966 and 1968 under British Rail the station buildings were replaced, the new design by Thomas Munro and Company. It is now the terminus of the Highland Main Line, the Aberdeen-Inverness Line, the Kyle of Lochalsh Line, Inverness is owned by Network Rail. However, it is operated by Abellio ScotRail who run most of the using the station. Caledonian Sleeper and Virgin Trains East Coast run the only non-ScotRail services, the station itself sits at one apex of a triangular junction in the centre of Inverness, with each half of the station connected to one line. The Highland Main and Aberdeen Lines both approach the station from the east and use Platforms 1-4, while the Far North Line approach from the north-west and use Platforms 5-7. A single parliamentary train is run along the chord of the triangle each weekday, as part of a through Kyle-Elgin service. In the 2013 timetable, this is currently the 1714 Kyle-Elgin service, the third chord runs between Rose Street Junction on the Far North Line and Welshs Bridge Junction on the Aberdeen/Perth line. The Aberdeen and Perth lines diverge at Millburn Junction a short distance beyond Welshs Bridge, signalling for the entire area is controlled from a panel box near the station built in 1988. This supervises the station area & approaches and also houses the Radio Electronic Token Block control desk that monitors the full length of the Kyle & Far North lines, RETB was installed by British Rail. Platform destination LED screens are installed, along with a main departures, each of Platforms 1-7 has its own screen showing departures from that platform. Screens are also present behind the wall for all platforms from 3-6, in addition, several other screens are also visible for general information. Stagecoach in Inverness route 11 runs every 30 minutes between Inverness city centre and Inverness Airport, the bus leaves from Strothers Lane, just around the corner from the station. Journey time to the airport is 25 minutes, the main coach and bus station is located in Margaret Street,150 m northwest of and just around the corner from the railway station. Many services can also be joined at the stop on Milburn Street outside Marks, Scottish Citylink route 919 operates six daily return services down the Great Glen to Fort William, calling at Urquhart Castle, Fort Augustus and intermediate points. Two of these services allow onward connections with Citylink route 918 from Fort William to Oban, as of May 2016,7 trains per day to Edinburgh Waverley via Perth. 4 trains per day to Glasgow Queen Street,11 trains per day to Aberdeen - one of these continues to Edinburgh via Dundee
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Carrbridge railway station
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Carrbridge railway station serves the village of Carrbridge, Highland, Scotland. The railway station is managed by Abellio ScotRail and is on the Highland Main Line,27 1⁄4 miles southeast of Inverness, the station was opened on 8 July 1892 when the line to Aviemore opened. Services to Inverness commenced on 1 November 1898, the station building is thought to be by the architect William Roberts, dating from 1898. There have been two accidents at Carrbridge, one in 1914 and another in 2010, there are five northbound departures to Inverness and six southbound trains to Perth, the latter continuing to either Glasgow Queen Street or Edinburgh. Four trains call each way on Sundays, including the southbound Highland Chieftain to London Kings Cross, the station has a car park but is not permanently staffed. Flowering shrubs on the platforms are tended by volunteers as part of an adopt a station initiative, the Directory of Railway Stations, details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present. Jowetts Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland, From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day
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Aviemore railway station
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Aviemore railway station serves the town and tourist resort of Aviemore in the Highlands of Scotland. The line was opened by the Inverness and Perth Junction Railway in 1863, william Roberts also provided an engine shed to the north of the station in 1896. It became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway after the Grouping of 1923, the original I&PJR line to Forres fell victim to the Beeching Axe, closing to passengers in October 1965. When Sectorisation was introduced by British Rail in the 1980s, the station was served by Scotrail until the Privatisation of British Rail, in 1998 the station was restored and refurbished, and the Strathspey Railway was finally allowed to use the island platform. The island platforms three buildings were restored and brought back into use, having been derelict for years. The new building comprises a hall, booking office and shop. This foot crossing also provides disabled access to platform 2 and this is the second biggest railway station in Highland, after Inverness. Following the moving of services, the Strathspey Railway closed their Aviemore railway station, the platform remains, as fears over asbestos contamination have stalled its removal. The original footbridge also still stands but is unsafe, Road access to the NR station building is from Grampian Road, to the west of the line. A canopied island platform, connected to the building by a footbridge. In the May 2016 timetable, there are seven trains each weekday to Edinburgh Waverley and four to Glasgow Queen Street southbound, northbound there are twelve departures to Inverness. On Sundays there are five trains to Edinburgh and two to Glasgow, along with seven to Inverness, from 2018, this station will be one of those to benefit from a package of timetable enhancements introduced by Transport Scotland and Scotrail. The current Perth to Inverness timetable will increase to hourly each way, journey times will also be reduced by 10 minutes to both cities. The Directory of Railway Stations, details every public and private station, halt, platform and stopping place, past. Jowetts Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland, From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day, Station on navigable O. S. map RAILSCOT on Inverness and Aviemore Direct Railway RAILSCOT on Inverness and Perth Junction Railway Aviemore station reopens after £2. 2m restoration. Video footage of Aviemore Railway Station
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Kingussie railway station
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Kingussie railway station serves the town of Kingussie, Inverness-shire in the Highland Council Area of Scotland. The station is managed by Abellio ScotRail and is on the Highland Main Line, the Inverness and Perth Junction Railway was authorised in 1861 for a line between Forres and Dunkeld. It was built quickly, and was opened in sections, the last stretch, the current station buildings date from 1893 by the architect William Roberts. The I&PJ amalgamated with other railways to form the Highland Railway in 1865, the adjacent stations were Kincraig to the north, and Newtonmore to the south, although the former has now closed. It is located in Ruthven Road, Kingussie, about 200 yards south-east of the High Street, there are two platforms, one of conventional height on the Down line and another of somewhat lower height on the Up line, the station buildings are on the Down platform. A level crossing takes Ruthven Road over both tracks at the Inverness end of the station, with the signal box at that end of the Up platform. The station has a loop on the mainly single-track line from Inverness to Perth. Kingussie High School is close to the station, as are also the Highland Council offices serving the Badenoch, there are eleven daily departures each way from the station, plus the Caledonian Sleeper. Seven of these run to Edinburgh Waverley and the others to Glasgow Queen Street, there is a daily through service to and from London Kings Cross via Edinburgh & Newcastle. On Sundays there are seven departures each way including the Kings Cross train, from 2018, this station will be one of those to benefit from a package of timetable enhancements introduced by Transport Scotland and Scotrail. The current Perth to Inverness timetable will increase to hourly each way, journey times will also be reduced by 10 minutes to both cities
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Newtonmore railway station
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Newtonmore railway station serves the village of Newtonmore, Highland, Scotland. The station is managed by Abellio ScotRail and is on the Highland Main Line, the station was opened by the Inverness and Perth Junction Railway on 9 September 1863. The original station buildings were constructed of wood and destroyed in a fire in April 1893 A replacement station building in stone was erected in 1893, a serious accident occurred on 2 August 1894 when the morning passenger train from Perth to Inverness collided with a goods train. One passenger was killed and several were badly injured, on 13 September 1900, James Ormiston, a brakesman was killed in a shunting accident at the station. The station is served by trains to Inverness and Glasgow or Edinburgh, a Sunday southbound HST train service to London Kings Cross and a nightly Caledonian Sleeper service to London Euston. The station has just one platform, since it was shortened the main building is now a residence and is now no longer part of the platform. Because the platform is short, express services overrun the platform commonly, the station was listed for closure but was saved because it provided crucial transport links to the Scottish and English capitals daily
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Blair Atholl railway station
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Blair Atholl railway station is a railway station serving the town of Blair Atholl, Perth and Kinross, Scotland. The station is managed by Abellio ScotRail and is on the Highland Main Line, the station was opened by the Inverness and Perth Junction Railway in September 1863 and is located at the northern end of the single track portion of the route from Stanley Junction. Beyond here the line is double track as far as Dalwhinnie, the disused goods yard and associated pointwork still exist, though overgrown. The goods yard is located next to the northbound platform,8 northbound and 6 southbound services call on weekdays & Saturdays, along with the Caledonian Sleeper to from London Euston. A reduced service operates on Sundays
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Pitlochry railway station
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Pitlochry railway station serves the town of Pitlochry in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. The station is situated on the former Inverness and Perth Junction Railway and was opened along with the line in 1863, the newly formed Highland Railway took over in 1865. All Highland main line services between Perth & Inverness call here, providing links to both Glasgow Queen Street and Edinburgh Waverley as well as the daytime & sleeper services to London, there are seven trains each way per day each way on Sundays. From 2018, this station will be one of those to benefit from a package of timetable enhancements introduced by Transport Scotland, the current Perth to Inverness timetable will increase to hourly each way, with trains south of there running on alternate hours to Edinburgh & Glasgow. Journey times will also be reduced by 10 minutes to both cities
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Dunkeld & Birnam railway station
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Dunkeld and Birnam railway station serves the towns of Dunkeld and Birnam in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. It is located on the Highland Main Line,13 miles north of Perth and is the first stop on the north of there. The station opened in April 1856, as the terminus of the Perth, seven years later, it became a through station when the Inverness and Perth Junction Railway opened its line to Inverness via Pitlochry and Forres. There are 8 departures to Inverness and 11 to Perth each weekday, services are provided by Abellio ScotRail, Caledonian Sleeper and Virgin Trains East Coast
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Perth railway station, Scotland
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Perth railway station is a railway station located in the city of Perth, Scotland. The station, designed by Sir William Tite, won an architecture prize and it has seven platforms, five of which are through platforms. There are two entrances, both of which allow car parking, the ticket office, newsagent and café are between Platforms 2 and 3. The original main concourse was between the current Platforms 4 and 7, and the station was covered by an overall roof. There used to be nine platforms, the station was opened by the Scottish Central Railway in 1848. The SMJR meanwhile would become part of a route to Aberdeen by 1856. Trains could then travel via Cowdenbeath, Dunfermline and the newly opened Forth Rail Bridge to reach Edinburgh, the Almond Valley line to Crieff & Methven was an early post-nationalisation casualty, closing to passengers in October 1951. The Ladybank service followed suit in September 1955, the Aviemore to Forres section of the Highland Main Line had already been closed two years earlier, and several local stations in the area were also shut down around this time. A further significant closure came on 5 January 1970, when the Glenfarg line to Kinross and Cowdenbeath was abandoned in favour of the older, as mentioned above, the station has seven active platforms, but they are split into two distinct sections. Platforms 1 and 2 sit on the side and are the busiest in the station due to them handling the Glasgow to Dundee. The two platform lines then become single further east to cross the bridge spanning the Tay, the remainder of the platforms sit under the main train shed, the former HR/SMJR platforms once used by the Coupar Angus main line as well as services to the Highlands. They now are used only by terminating trains from the Edinburgh direction, there was once an extensive goods yard here, along with an engine shed and carriage sidings but only a small engineers depot remains in the greatly downsized yard. Passenger services are operated by Abellio ScotRail, Caledonian Sleeper, and Virgin Trains East Coast, services to both Glasgow Queen Street and Edinburgh Waverley depart hourly, as do those to Aberdeen via Dundee, Carnoustie and Arbroath. Trains to Inverness are somewhat irregular, but run at least once every two hours with eleven departures in all on weekdays & Saturdays and seven on Sundays. The daily Caledonian Sleeper service between Inverness and London and the daily Virgin Trains East Coast Highland Chieftain service between Inverness and London Kings Cross call at this station, the movie The Railway Man was filmed at Perth station posing as Crewe during the 1960s. Perth station was nominated the Carbuncle award in 2015 which recognizes the worst planning decision, the award was due to the fact a new footbridge had to be built at the South Side of the station which has stair and lift access to all platforms to comply with disability laws. Local newspaper The Courier reported on the news and interviewd Paul Tetlaw from the campaign Transform Scotland, to add insult to injury, its virtually unused, as the alternatives within the station building are vastly more convenient for the overwhelming majority of passengers. The Directory of Railway Stations, details every public and private station, halt, platform and stopping place, past
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Gleneagles railway station
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Gleneagles railway station serves the town of Auchterarder in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. The station was opened by the Scottish Central Railway on 14 March 1856 and was originally named Crieff Junction, there was another station with the name of Crieff Junction to the north of this station which was only short-lived. The branch northwestward to Crieff was opened on the same day, on 1 April 1912 it was renamed Gleneagles. The station was rebuilt and the junction remodelled by the Caledonian Railway in 1919 following their takeover of the Scottish Central Railway, the Caledonian Railway built the nearby Gleneagles Hotel, which opened in 1925. The hotel served as the location for the G8 summit in 2005 and is a well known golf resort, in anticipation of the 2014 Ryder Cup, Gleneagles railway station underwent a major refurbishment as part of a £7 million program to improve transport infrastructure in the area. The branch line to Crieff closed on 6 July 1964 due to the Beeching Axe, the service frequency is however somewhat irregular, with large gaps in the timetable at certain times of day. Gleneagles is also served by the daily Highland Chieftain through service between Inverness and London Kings Cross and the Caledonian Sleeper to London Euston each evening except Saturdays, from 2018, services from the station will be increased as part of a timetable upgrade package backed by Transport Scotland. A regular hourly-interval each way service between Glasgow, Perth, & Dundee will be introduced that will stop here, the Directory of Railway Stations, details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present. Jowetts Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland, From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day, the Scottish Central Railway, Perth to Stirling. RAILSCOT on Scottish Central Railway RAILSCOT on Crieff Junction Railway Video footage of Gleneagles Railway station
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Dunblane railway station
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Dunblane railway station serves the town of Dunblane in central Scotland. It is located on the former Scottish Central Railway, between Stirling and Perth and opened with the line in 1848, the station is staffed by one person who runs the ticket office and does most jobs around the station. Several plants have been placed around the station by a group known as Dunblane in Bloom. The train operating company that serves Dunblane station is Abellio ScotRail, Trains generally leave for Edinburgh at 28 and 58 minutes past the hour, and for Glasgow Queen Street at 13 minutes past the hour, though this is supplemented by trains from the north. These trains serve all stations en route, whereas the services from further afield serve principal stations only. Four trains each way between Glasgow Queen Street and Inverness,146 miles away, stop here along with a number of services to either Dundee or Aberdeen. On Sundays, there is a hourly service to Edinburgh and hourly calls each way by the Aberdeen to Glasgow service. The southbound Virgin Trains East Coast service between Inverness and London Kings Cross also stops here, Abellio ScotRail trains serving Dunblane are all DMUs. These consist mainly of Class 158 and Class 170 sets, some services are still operated by a Class 156. The only exception to this is the Caledonian Sleeper service from Inverness to London Euston, the Virgin Trains East Coast that stops here is operated by HST sets, made up of a pair of Class 43 power cars and nine Mk3 coaches. Once this project is completed, a timetable recast will follow - this will lead to reduced journey times to both main cities and a more frequent service to Perth & Dundee. Dunblane used to be a junction where the present line and the Dunblane, Doune and this connected at Callander to the Callander and Oban Railway. The line was axed in the Beeching cuts, being closed on 1 November 1965. Parts of the trackbed from near Dunblane to Doune and from Callander to Killin are now cycle paths, a short section of track remains on the branch, and is used for storing track maintenance machines, or sometimes even a DMU. The Directory of Railway Stations, details every public and private station, halt, platform and stopping place, past. Jowetts Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland, From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day
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Stirling railway station, Scotland
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Stirling railway station is a railway station located in Stirling, Scotland. It is located on the former Caledonian Railway main line between Glasgow and Perth, Stirling was first connected to the Scottish Central Railway in 1848. Lines were subsequently opened by the Stirling and Dunfermline Railway in 1853, through services to/from the Callander and Oban Railway also served the station from 1870. The current station buildings were opened in 1916 following a rebuild by the Caledonian Railway. They have undergone several refurbishments, the most recent change being the installation of lifts to better access to the footbridge linking Platform 2 with Platforms 3 to 8. The line to Balloch lost its services in 1934 and closed as a through route in 1942. The main line from Stirling to Dunfermline was not scheduled for closure under the Beeching Axe and it has since been partly reopened as far as Alloa. A Motorail service ran between London and Stirling until 1989, an exhibition of the station over the last 100 years is planned for 2013. The station building was constructed in 1915 by James Miller, and is listed by Historic Environment Scotland as a Category A listed building. In 2008, the centre was refurbished to improve disabled access, including power-assisted entrance doors, a wheelchair-accessible counter. In 2009, a shelter was erected on Platforms 9 and 10, and LED display boards replaced the CRT screens, including new displays for Platforms 9 and 10 and the bay Platforms 7 and 8. From December 2009, automated announcements were provided, replacing the manual announcements made from the office on Platform 3. In 2013, a new public address system was installed, the station houses a Neighbourhood Policing Team from the British Transport Police. Currently two officers work from Stirling and cover Stirling, Alloa, Bridge of Allan, Camelon, Dunblane, Falkirk High, Falkirk Grahamston and Larbert. The Stirling Area Command of the Forth Valley Division of Police Scotland cover the area the Stirling NPT cover. Trains operate north to Dunblane, to Perth, Dundee and Aberdeen, Inverness, south west to Glasgow Queen Street, and east to Edinburgh Waverley. Most services are operated by Abellio ScotRail although there is one train a day operated by Virgin Trains East Coast to London Kings Cross, as of December 2015 an extra service by Virgin Trains East Coast runs an early morning service between Stirling and London Kings Cross. The Caledonian Sleeper between Inverness & London Euston also calls, the station has nine platforms, though they are ordered 2 to 10
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Falkirk Grahamston railway station
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Falkirk Grahamston railway station is one of two railway stations serving the town of Falkirk in Scotland. It is located on the Edinburgh to Dunblane Line, Cumbernauld Line trains also terminate here. Train services are provided by Abellio ScotRail, the Highland Chieftain, the daily Virgin Trains East Coast service from London Kings Cross to Inverness and vice versa also calls here. Falkirk is also served by the station at Falkirk High. The line between Polmont and Larbert was built by the Stirlingshire Midland Junction Railway, which was absorbed by the Edinburgh, the line opened on 1 October 1850, as did the station known as Grahamston. Passenger services there were withdrawn on 29 January 1968 as a result of the Beeching Axe, the station was renamed Falkirk Grahamston on 1 February 1903. The original station buildings were replaced by the present ones in 1985/6, monday to Saturday there is a half-hourly service to Edinburgh Waverley eastbound and to Dunblane via Stirling westbound, also there is one per hour to & from Glasgow Queen Street via Cumbernauld. There is also a weekday morning peak direct service to Glasgow via Lenzie which originates at Kirkcaldy. Glasgow services were diverted via Cumbernauld in September 1999 in order to free up paths on the busy E&G main line, on Sundays there is an hourly service to Edinburgh and Dunblane but no service to Glasgow. Passengers wishing to travel there have to change at Polmont or use Falkirk High. This will also result in a timetable recast, with a new Glasgow to Edinburgh via Cumbernauld & Falkirk Grahamston stopping service introduced, the Directory of Railway Stations, details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present. Jowetts Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland, From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day
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Aberdeen railway station
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Aberdeen railway station is the main railway station in Aberdeen, Scotland. It is the busiest railway station in Scotland north of the cities of Glasgow. It is located on Guild Street in the city centre, next to Union Square, the station is managed by Abellio ScotRail. Inter-city, regional, local and sleeper train services are provided to all parts of Great Britain by Abellio ScotRail, Caledonian Sleeper, CrossCountry and Virgin Trains East Coast. The station currently standing was built as Aberdeen Joint Station between 1913–16, replacing an 1867 structure of the name, on the same site. The station and the new Denburn Valley Line enabled the line from the south. The lines from the south had previously terminated at the adjacent Aberdeen Guild Street, even this had not been Aberdeens first railway station, that distinction belonging to a previous terminus a short way south at Ferryhill. After the construction of the Joint Station, Guild Street Station became a goods station, some of its tracks remain, but the vast majority of the site was cleared in 2005. Prior to the construction of the Joint Station, lines from the north had terminated at Aberdeen Waterloo and this too became a goods station after the construction of the Joint Station. There is no longer a station at the site, but a service runs approximately weekly to industrial operations there. As far north as Inverurie, these follow the route of the Aberdeenshire Canal which had purchased and filled in by the Great North of Scotland Railway. At nationalisation in 1948, it became part of British Rail. As part of the changes during this period saw a general contraction of railway services in the UK. These included those running north to Peterhead and Ellon as well as the Deeside Line, suburban services were heavily reduced and the grand suburban ticket office, located on the corner of Guild Street and Bridge Street, was closed. It now houses a hair and beauty salon, the number of platforms at the station were also reduced considerably in the early 1970s, from the thirteen of the late 1950s/early 1960s down to just seven by 1973. This rationalisation process saw the removal of all of the end bay platforms to allow for redevelopment of that part of the site. However, significant improvements under British Rail included introduction of InterCity 125 high-speed service to London and other major destinations, other improvements included a new Travel Centre opened in 1978 and under British Rails regional brand ScotRail, a major station renovation was completed in the 1980s. The station was also resignalled around this time, with two bay platforms taken out of use along with the former through platforms 8 &9
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Stonehaven railway station
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Stonehaven railway station serves the town of Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. Despite its small size, it is a point for a large number of services going both North to Aberdeen and South to Edinburgh and Glasgow. Additionally, a service operating only between Aberdeen, Portlethen and Stonehaven has operated since the winter of 2008, the station was opened as part of the Aberdeen Railway on 1 November 1849. This later became part of the Scottish North Eastern Railway and then the Caledonian Railway, trains on both the Edinburgh to Aberdeen Line and the Glasgow to Aberdeen Line call here, though some services to/from Glasgow skip this station outside peak periods. The Caledonian Sleeper also operates to London Euston six days per week, service frequencies are to be improved here from 2018 as part of a timetable recast funded by Transport Scotland. A new Aberdeen Crossrail commuter service is to be introduced between Montrose and Inverurie, which will call here and the intermediate stations en-route once per hour in each direction. The Directory of Railway Stations, details every public and private station, halt, platform and stopping place, past. Jowetts Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland, From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day
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Montrose railway station
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Montrose railway station serves the town of Montrose in Angus, Scotland. The station overlooks the Montrose Basin and is situated on the Edinburgh to Aberdeen Line,90 miles north of Edinburgh Waverley. The town of Montrose had initially served by a short branch line from the Aberdeen Railway at Dubton Junction. Passenger traffic subsequently began on the line on 1 May 1883, after a period of joint operation by both companies, the NBR worked all services from 1899 until the 1923 Grouping, when the London and North Eastern Railway took over. Passenger services were withdrawn by British Railways in 1951, though freight traffic continued until 1966. From 30 April 1934, services from the Dubton branch also operated to, passenger traffic on this route ended in August 1952, with complete closure following in 1963. The work also made the platform at the station bi-directional. The station receives regular calls by Abellio ScotRail trains on both the Glasgow Queen Street and Edinburgh Waverley to Aberdeen routes throughout the week, certain Aberdeen trains are extended to either Dyce or Inverurie. The overnight Caledonian Sleeper service to/from London Euston also stops here, from 2018, a new Aberdeen Crossrail service will be introduced from the station, running northbound to Inverurie every hour and serving all intermediate stops either side of Aberdeen. The Directory of Railway Stations, details every public and private station, halt, platform and stopping place, past. Jowetts Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland, From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day
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Arbroath railway station
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Arbroath railway station serves the town of Arbroath in Angus, Scotland. The station is 17 miles east of Dundee on the line between Dundee and Aberdeen, there have been three stations called Arbroath, two of which closed in 1848. One - Arbroath Catherine Street - served the Arbroath and Forfar Railway, the current station was originally opened by the Dundee and Arbroath Railway on 1 February 1848 as a link station to connect the Arbroath and Forfar Railway with the Dundee and Arbroath Railway. On 1 October 1880 the North British, Arbroath and Montrose Railway opened north towards Montrose, when sectorisation was introduced by British Rail in the 1980s, the station was served by Scotrail until the privatisation of British Rail. This was mostly withdrawn at the May 1990 timetable change and the service that still operates now starts & terminates at Carnoustie. The former platform 3 and its associated loop has also taken out of use & lifted. From 2018, a service to Dundee is to be reintroduced as part of a major timetable improvement package backed by Transport Scotland. This will serve Carnoustie, Monifieth & Broughty Ferry stations every hour through the day, existing services through to Glasgow & Edinburgh will also be accelerated as part of the same recast. There are generally two or three trains per hour westbound to Dundee and eastbound to Aberdeen, with hourly services onwards from Dundee towards Edinburgh. Virgin Trains East Coast services to London Kings Cross and CrossCountry routes towards England also stop at Arbroath, on Sundays there is generally an hourly service in each direction. The Directory of Railway Stations, details every public and private station, halt, platform and stopping place, past. Jowetts Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland, From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day
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Dundee railway station
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Dundee railway station serves the city of Dundee on the east coast of Scotland. The station has two platforms and two terminal platforms. It is situated on the northern, non-electrified section of the East Coast Main Line, as of January 2014, the main station building has been demolished to make way for a new building as part of the Dundee Waterfront Project. The station is the rebuilt Dundee Tay Bridge railway station, which had built by the North British Railway in 1878 as part of the Tay Rail Bridge project. Until the 1960s, other stations in Dundee included Dundee West, the Caledonian Railway station for Perth and it is located in cutting at the south end of Camperdown tunnel, which passes beneath the towns former docks and required permanent pumping to keep dry. The station is sited below sea level. Today, the other remaining station within Dundee City boundaries is Broughty Ferry. Both Balmossie and Invergowrie stations are located close to the cites boundaries. A footbridge connected the new building to the citys Union Street to allow pedestrians to cross the busy inner ring road safely. In 2005, the footbridge was demolished in two phases as part of a project called the Dundee Central Waterfront Development Plan. There is to be a new railway station built, replacing the now partially demolished old station. While the new station is under construction, an entrance on Riverside Drive is in use. The Dundee Waterfront project is due to end in 2031, included in the plans is a major revamp to the Tay Road Bridge, other buildings include the multimillion-pound V&A Dundee and the redevelopment of the former Tay Hotel into a Malmaison. The new station building will be built over the site of the old station at a cost of 22 million pounds. Construction is due to begin by the first quarter of 2015, more frequent services run to Glasgow Queen Street, Edinburgh and Aberdeen. For a period of time, Dundee was the station of the longest direct rail journey in Britain - the 06,43 Virgin CrossCountry service to Penzance. The station was the terminus of the reverse of this journey, as of 14 December 2008, the longest through journey is now the 08,20 from Aberdeen to Penzance, arriving at Penzance at 21,50,13.5 hours later. This still operates in the May 2016 timetable, departing from here at 09,32, services in 2016, Virgin Trains East Coast,3 trains per day to London Kings Cross from Aberdeen via Edinburgh, Newcastle and York
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Leuchars railway station
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Leuchars railway station serves the towns of Leuchars and St Andrews in Fife, Scotland. The station is the last northbound stop before Dundee, the station was built as Leuchars Junction station for the route over the Tay Bridge to Dundee, the previous Leuchars station being on the line to Tayport. There are buses and taxis available to passengers to nearby St. Andrews. The station is located near Leuchars Station, a British Army installation, Leuchars will be the first station to be powered this way, and if the project, which was funded by Transport Scotland proves successful, it may be rolled out across other stations. The original station for Leuchars was some 45 chains north of the current station and was opened on 17 May 1848 and it became the junction for St Andrews on 1 July 1852. It was closed to passengers when Leuchars Junction opened on 1 June 1878 and it finally closed to passengers on 3 October 1921 and to goods on 6 November 1967. Leuchars Junction opened on the current site, just south of the junction for the Tay Bridge and it consisted of an island platform with a south facing bay for branch line trains for St Andrews, and a north facing bay for trains on the old main line to Tayport. On 30 June 1913, the buildings at Leuchars Junction burnt to the ground. This was widely believed to be arson by suffragettes, the current buildings are those of the 1913 rebuilding. After the closure of the Tayport line in 1967 and the St Andrews branch on 6 January 1969 the station ceased to be a junction, the station was subsequently renamed Leuchars. Weekday timetable Intercity trains Virgin Trains East Coast 3 trains per day to London Kings Cross,1 tpd to Leeds from Aberdeen. Three of these trains are from London Kings Cross and the other, CrossCountry, CrossCountry operate two daily services out of Dundee, one of which goes to Plymouth and the other continues to Penzance. They also operate one train per day to Aberdeen and one to Dundee, caledonian Sleeper,1 tpd to London Euston via Edinburgh, Preston and Crewe. Local trains Abellio ScotRail,2 tph to Edinburgh,1 tph to Inverurie via Aberdeen
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