Ardgay railway station
Ardgay 
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| Location | |
| Place | Ardgay |
| Local authority | Highland |
| Coordinates | 57°52′54″N 4°21′44″W / 57.8816°N 4.3622°WCoordinates: 57°52′54″N 4°21′44″W / 57.8816°N 4.3622°W |
| 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 |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 8,890 |
| 2012/13 |
 8,108 |
| 2013/14 |
8,806 |
| 2014/15 |
8,416 |
| 2015/16 |
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.
Opened on 1 October 1864 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.
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