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Broughty Ferry railway station Serves the suburban town of Broughty Ferry in Dundee, Scotland. The station was opened on October 6, 1838 on the Dundee and Arbroath Railway. When North British Railway were granted joint ownership of the line on July 21, 1879, the station buildings were gradually rebuilt until around 1900.
[edit] Level crossing incident
At 7:20 pm on October 21, 1991, a Dundee bound Aberdeen–London Intercity express 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.[1] The gates had not been closed before the train passed the level crossing. Dundee City Council had 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. Train services are now limited to 3 westbound and 2 eastbound services a day, timed so that whilst it is possible to commute to Edinburgh for work, to travel to Dundee for the same reason, as many did in the station's heyday, is inconvenient.
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- ^ "80 mph train misses five "by yards"", Dundee Courier and Advertiser, October 23 1991, pp. 11,14.
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