Apr 6th, 2017: Lonely Railroad Stations

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Picky comment: Angus is in Scotland, not England. :-)

I'm actually quite impressed that there are 30+ people who (a) live nearer Barry Links than either of the other two stations in the small town of Carnoustie, (b) want to travel to Dundee at 6AM and back at 7PM, those being the only two trains that stop at Barry Links, and (c) don't prefer to use the cheaper, more regular local bus services. The next station up the line, Golf Street, manages even more regular passengers despite having the same service pattern.

If you look at the history of passenger numbers for those two stations, you'll see they occasionally have *very* good years -- the clue is in the names, in that Barry Links and Golf Street are located for the Barry and Carnoustie golf courses, and ScotRail have used them to lay on special trains when events are on...