Ardgay railway station

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Ardgay

Scottish Gaelic: Àird Ghaoithe[1]
National Rail
Ardgay Station after a Snowfall - geograph.org.uk - 723950.jpg
LocationArdgay, Highland
Scotland
Coordinates57°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 referenceNH600904
Managed byAbellio ScotRail
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeARD
History
Original companyInverness and Ross-shire Railway / Sutherland Railway
Pre-groupingHighland Railway
Post-groupingLMSR
Key dates
1 October 1864Opened as Bonar Bridge
2 May 1977Renamed as Ardgay
Passengers
2016/17Increase 7,144
2017/18Decrease 7,140
2018/19Decrease 6,998
2019/20Decrease 6,408
2020/21Decrease 624
Listed Building – Category C(S)
Designated14 September 1988
Reference no.LB7164[2]
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

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, 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.[3]

History[]

Opened on 1 October 1864 as Bonar Bridge by the Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway and designed by Joseph Mitchell,[4][2] 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.

Stationmasters[]

  • Mr. Florence Turnbull 1865 - 1872[5] (formerly station master at Struan, afterwards station master at Pitlochry)
  • John McBean 1872 - 1873[6] (formerly station master at Lairg, afterwards station master at Strathcarron)
  • Alexander Murray 1873 - 1887[7] (afterwards station master at Elgin)
  • Mr. Fraser 1887 - 1897[8] (formerly station master at Rogart, afterwards station master at Boat of Garten)
  • James A Ellis from 1897
  • Francis Ross ca. 1903
  • George Hepburn ca. 1911 ca. 1913
  • Mr. MacGregor
  • Mr. MacLennan until 1937[9]
  • Donald Mackenzie from 1937 - ca. 1942
  • John Macdonald

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.[10]

Preceding station National Rail National Rail Following station
Tain   Abellio ScotRail
Far North Line 		  Culrain or Lairg
  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. ^ a b "ARDGAY RAILWAY STATION AND FOOTBRIDGE". Historic Scotland. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
  3. ^ Brailsford 2017, map 20A.
  4. ^ "Inverness and Aberdeen Junction". London Evening Standard. England. 6 October 1864. Retrieved 20 July 2017 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. ^ "Presentation to a Late Townsman". Elgin Courant, and Morayshire Advertiser. Scotland. 21 November 1873. Retrieved 13 November 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. ^ "Melancholy Death of a Stationmaster". Glasgow Herald. Scotland. 2 May 1873. Retrieved 13 November 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  7. ^ "Elgin - Railway Appointments". Aberdeen Evening Express. Scotland. 21 September 1887. Retrieved 13 November 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  8. ^ "Boat of Garten. The New Station Master". Elgin Courant, and Morayshire Advertiser. Scotland. 2 July 1897. Retrieved 13 November 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  9. ^ "Bonar Bridge Station Agent Honoured". Aberdeen Press and Journal. Scotland. 1 April 1937. Retrieved 13 November 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  10. ^ 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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