Ardlui railway station
Ardlui 
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| Scottish Gaelic: Àird Laoigh | |
Ardlui station is unusually busy as passengers on a Mallaig and Oban - Glasgow train stretch their legs whilst waiting for a late running northbound train to cross
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| Location | |
| Place | Ardlui |
| Local authority | Argyll and Bute |
| Coordinates | 56°18′07″N 4°43′18″W / 56.3019°N 4.7217°WCoordinates: 56°18′07″N 4°43′18″W / 56.3019°N 4.7217°W |
| Grid reference | NN316155 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | AUI |
| 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 |
 2,252 |
| 2012/13 |
 2,216 |
| 2013/14 |
4,566 |
| 2014/15 |
5,074 |
| 2015/16 |
5,072 |
| History | |
| Original company | West Highland Railway |
| Pre-grouping | North British Railway |
| Post-grouping | LNER |
| 7 August 1894 | Opened |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Ardlui from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Ardlui railway station is a remote rural railway station, serving Ardlui at the north end of Loch Lomond, in Scotland. The station is 51 miles (82 km) north of Glasgow Queen Street on the West Highland Line.
Opened to passengers on 7 August 1894 by the West Highland Railway, then run by the North British Railway, it became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. Due to subsidence the main station building, of the standard 'West Highland' design, had to be demolished around 1970 with an open waiting area built on to the signal box.
When sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by ScotRail until the Privatisation of British Rail.
The station was laid out with a crossing loop and an island platform. There are three sidings on the east side of the station.
On 8 February 1987, the crossing loop was altered to right-hand running. The original Down platform has thus become the Up platform, and vice versa. The change was made in order to simplify shunting at this station, by removing the need to hand-pump the train-operated loop points to access the sidings.
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