Ardgay | |
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Scottish Gaelic: Àird Ghaoithe | |
Location | |
Place | Ardgay |
Local authority | Highland |
Coordinates | 57°52′54″N 4°21′44″W / 57.8816°N 4.3622°WCoordinates: 57°52′54″N 4°21′44″W / 57.8816°N 4.3622°W |
Grid reference | NH600904 |
Operations | |
Station code | ARD |
Managed by | Abellio ScotRail |
Number of platforms | 2 |
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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Annual rail passenger usage* | |
2012/13 | 8,108 |
2013/14 | 8,806 |
2014/15 | 8,416 |
2015/16 | 6,732 |
2016/17 | 7,144 |
History | |
Original company | Inverness and Ross-shire Railway / Sutherland Railway |
Pre-grouping | Highland Railway |
Post-grouping | LMSR |
1 October 1864 | Opened as Bonar Bridge |
2 May 1977 | Renamed as Ardgay |
National Rail – UK railway stations | |
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Ardgay from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
Ardgay railway station is a railway station serving the village of Ardgay in the Highland council area of Scotland. The station is on the Far North Line, 57 miles 70 chains (93.1 km) from Inverness, near Bonar Bridge, and has a passing loop 32 chains (640 m) long, flanked by two platforms. Platform 1 on the up (southbound) line can accommodate trains having ten coaches, but platform 2 on the down (northbound) line can only hold five.
Opened on 1 October 1864 as Bonar Bridge by the Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway, it became the meeting point of the Sutherland Railway and the Inverness and Ross-shire Railway. The station joined the Highland Railway, later becoming part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923; it then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. It was renamed Ardgay on 2 May 1977.
When sectorisation was introduced by British Rail in the 1980s, the station was served by ScotRail until the privatisation of British Rail.