Ardgay railway station

Ardgay National Rail
Scottish Gaelic: Àird Ghaoithe[1]
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*
2012/13 Decrease 8,108
2013/14 Increase 8,806
2014/15 Decrease 8,416
2015/16 Decrease 6,732
2016/17 Increase 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.
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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, 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.[2]

History

Opened on 1 October 1864 as Bonar Bridge by the Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway,[3] 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.[4]

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Tain   Abellio ScotRail
Far North Line		   Culrain
  Historical railways  
Mid Fearn Halt
Line open; Station closed		   Highland Railway
Left arrow Inverness and Ross-shire Railway
Sutherland Railway Right arrow
   Culrain
Line and Station open

References

  1. ↑ Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
  2. ↑ Brailsford 2017, map 20A.
  3. ↑ "Inverness and Aberdeen Junction". London Evening Standard. England. 6 October 1864. Retrieved 20 July 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive. (Subscription required (help)).
  4. ↑ Table 239 National Rail timetable, May 2016

Sources

  • Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.
  • Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
  • Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
  • "Station on navigable O.S. map".
  • "RAILSCOT on Sutherland Railway".
  • "RAILSCOT on Inverness and Ross-shire Railway".


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