of the terminal was completed in November 2007. The Raiths Farm facility replaced the Guild Street yard at , allowing the latter site, which occupied valuable land close to the city centre, to be redeveloped. The Raiths Farm layout comprises arrival and departure lines to the north and south, a run-round loop and four sidings. The facility began operations in 2009. Location Although Dyce station is located next to the runway of Aberdeen Airport, and aircraft can be seen landing and taking off from the station platform, there is no direct link between Dyce station and the airport, as the passenger terminal is the other side of the runway. Facilities The station has two platforms connected by a new fully accessible footbridge, implemented in 2014. The station is unstaffed and there is no ticket office, but automatic ticket vending machines are provided. Other facilities include car park, taxi rank, cycle storage, seating and a simple shelter on each platform. Automated announcements, customer help points, timetable posters and train information displays offer running information. Both platforms are fully accessible for disabled passengers, with lifts in the footbridge and level access from the main car park to platform 2. Passenger volume Dyce is a popular station with airport passengers, business travellers and commuters, both to and from Aberdeen. The statistics cover twelve month periods that start in April. Services There is a half hourly service in each direction Mondays to Saturdays to Aberdeen and Inverurie, with eleven of the latter trains continuing to Inverness. Seven Aberdeen trains run through to Edinburgh and one (two on Saturdays) to Glasgow, along with an evening commuter service to . There are nine southbound and eleven northbound departures on Sundays, five of the latter running to Inverness. 2018 Service improvements Service frequencies were improved here from 2018 as part of a timetable recast funded by Transport Scotland. An "Aberdeen Crossrail" commuter service was introduced between Montrose and , which will call here and the other intermediate stations en-route once per hour in each direction. The Aberdeen to Inverurie frequency was upped to every 30 minutes, with several of the existing Inverness trains combined with Aberdeen to Glasgow & Edinburgh express services to maintain through journey opportunities. A £170 million project to upgrade the Aberdeen to Inverness line also saw the track through here redoubled by 2019. The first stage of this work began in May 2018,