Ardgay railway station

Ardgay
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Location
Place	Ardgay
Local authority	Highland
Coordinates
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*
2004/05	2,297
2005/06	3,067
2006/07	3,964
2007/08	5,851
2008/09	6,516
2009/10	7,388
2010/11	7,404
2011/12	8,890
2012/13	8,108
2013/14	8,806
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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* 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 1874 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.

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		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