Aberdeen railway station

Aberdeen

Scottish Gaelic: Obar Dheathain[1]
National Rail
Aberdeen Station in 2022
General information
LocationAberdeen, City of Aberdeen
Scotland
Coordinates57°08′37″N 2°05′55″W / 57.1436°N 2.0985°W / 57.1436; -2.0985
Grid referenceNJ941058
Owned byNetwork Rail/Scotrail
Operated byScotrail
Managed byScotRail
Platforms6 (numbered 2–7)
Train operatorsScotrail, Cross country, LNER, Calidonian Sleeper
Other information
Station codeABD[2]
History
Original companyDenburn Valley Line
Key dates
4 November 1867Station opened as Aberdeen Joint to replace Aberdeen Guild Street and Aberdeen Waterloo[3]
1913–1916Rebuilt
1952Renamed Aberdeen[3]
2007–2008Major refurbishment
2020-2022Major redevelopment
Passengers
2018/19Decrease 2.616 million
 Interchange Increase 0.258 million
2019/20Decrease 2.497 million
 Interchange Decrease 0.237 million
2020/21Decrease 0.394 million
 Interchange Decrease 27,863
2021/22Increase 1.537 million
 Interchange Increase 0.125 million
2022/23Increase 1.961 million
 Interchange Increase 0.179 million
Listed Building – Category A
Official nameGuild Street Aberdeen Railway Station and Road Overbridge
Designated2 March 1990
Reference no.LB20673[4]
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road
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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 major cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh. It is located on Guild Street in the city centre, next to Union Square.

The station is managed by ScotRail. Inter-city, regional, local and sleeper train services are provided to all parts of Great Britain by ScotRail, Caledonian Sleeper, CrossCountry and London North Eastern Railway. The station is the northern terminus of the Dundee–Aberdeen line and the southern terminus of the Aberdeen–Inverness line, and is measured 241 mileschains (388.0 km) from Carlisle via Perth.[5]

  1. ^ Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
  2. ^ Deaves, Phil. "Railway Codes". railwaycodes.org.uk. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
  3. ^ a b Butt (1995), page 12
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference listing was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Bridge, Mike, ed. (2017). TRACKatlas of Mainland Britain: A Comprehensive Geographic Atlas Showing the Rail Network of Great Britain (3rd ed.). Sheffield: Platform 5 Publishing Ltd. p. 96. ISBN 978-1-909431-26-3.

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