Ardgay railway station

Ardgay National Rail
Location
Place Ardgay
Local authority Highland
Coordinates 57°52′54″N 4°21′44″W / 57.8816°N 4.3622°W / 57.8816; -4.3622Coordinates: 57°52′54″N 4°21′44″W / 57.8816°N 4.3622°W / 57.8816; -4.3622
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
Annual rail passenger usage*
2011/12 Increase 8,890
2012/13 Decrease 8,108
2013/14 Increase 8,806
2014/15 Decrease 8,416
2015/16 Decrease 6,732
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.
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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, 57¾ miles (93 km) 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 1 October 1864 as Bonar Bridge by the Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway,[1] 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.

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 (the other terminates here). On Sundays, there is one train in each direction.[2]

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Tain   Abellio 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

References

  1. "Inverness and Aberdeen Junction". London Evening Standard. England. 6 October 1864. Retrieved 20 July 2017 via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
  2. Table 239 National Rail timetable, May 2016

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