| Ardgay | |||||||||
| Native Name: | Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic: Àird Ghaoithe | ||||||||
| Symbol Location: | gb | ||||||||
| Symbol: | rail | ||||||||
| Borough: | Ardgay, Highland | ||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||
| Coordinates: | 57.8816°N -4.3622°W | ||||||||
| Grid Name: | Grid reference | ||||||||
| Manager: | ScotRail | ||||||||
| Platforms: | 2 | ||||||||
| Code: | ARD[1] | ||||||||
| Original: | Inverness and Ross-shire Railway / Sutherland Railway | ||||||||
| Pregroup: | Highland Railway | ||||||||
| Postgroup: | LMSR | ||||||||
| Years: | 1 October 1864 | ||||||||
| Events: | Opened as Bonar Bridge | ||||||||
| Years1: | 2 May 1977 | ||||||||
| Events1: | Renamed as Ardgay | ||||||||
| Footnotes: | Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road | ||||||||
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Ardgay railway station is a railway station serving the village of Ardgay and its neighbour Bonar Bridge in the Highland council area of Scotland. The station is on the Far North Line, 57miles from, between Tain and Culrain.[3] ScotRail, who manage the station, operate all services.
Opened on 1 October 1864 as Bonar Bridge by the Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway and designed by Joseph Mitchell,[4] it became the meeting point of the Sutherland Railway and the Inverness and Ross-shire Railway. It was renamed Ardgay on 2 May 1977.[5]
The station has a passing loop 32chain long, flanked by two platforms. Platform 1 on the southbound line can accommodate trains having ten coaches, but platform 2 on the northbound line can only hold five.
Both platforms have benches, but only platform 1 has a designated waiting area, as seen in the photo on the left. Platform 2 also has a help point, and there is a car park and bike racks adjacent to it. Platform 2 has step-free access, but platform 1 can only be accessed from the footbridge.[6] As there are no facilities to purchase tickets, passengers must buy one in advance, or from the guard on the train.
| Entries and exits | 2,503 | 2,297 | 3,067 | 3,964 | 5,851 | 6,516 | 7,388 | 7,404 | 8,890 | 8,108 | 8,806 | 8,416 | 6,732 | 7,144 | 7,140 | 6,998 | 6,408 | 624 | 3,968 | 4,412 |
On Mondays to Saturdays, there are seven trains a day southbound to and five a day northbound, four of which continue on to (the other terminates here). On Sundays, there is one train in each direction.[8]