Ardgay railway station

Ardgay
Location
Place Ardgay
Local authority Highland
Operations
Station code ARD
Managed by First ScotRail
Number of platforms 2
Live arrivals/departures and station information
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 * 2,297
2005/06 * 3,067
2006/07 * 3,964
2007/08 * 5,851
2008/09 * 7,138
History
Original company Inverness and Ross-shire Railway / Sutherland Railway
Pre-grouping Highland Railway
Post-grouping LMSR
28 July 1874 Opened as Bonar Bridge
2 May 1977 Renamed as Ardgay
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Ardgay from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.
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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, 93 km (57¾ miles) north of Inverness, near Bonar Bridge. Ardgay station has a passing loop, the next loop to the south being at Tain and to the north, Lairg.

History

Opened on 1st. October, 1874 as Bonar Bridge, by the Inverness and 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 2nd. May 1977.

When Sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by ScotRail until the Privatisation of British Railways.

Today Ardgay is the termination point for some commuter services from Inverness. The southbound platform is twice the length of the northbound platform.

Services

Timetable changes in December 2008 increased the number of trains through Ardgay. On Mondays to Saturdays, there are seven trains a day southbound to Inverness and five a day northbound, four of which continue on to Wick. On Sundays there is one train in each direction.

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Tain   First ScotRail
Far North Line		   Culrain
Historical railways
Line continues south   Sutherland Railway

Highland Railway

   Culrain
Line and Station open
Mid Fearn Halt
Line open; Station closed		   Inverness and Ross-shire Railway

Highland Railway

   Line continues north

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