Bridge of Orchy railway station
Bridge of Orchy 
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| Scottish Gaelic: Drochaid Urchaidh | |
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| Location | |
| Place | Bridge of Orchy |
| Local authority | Argyll and Bute |
| Coordinates | 56°30′58″N 4°45′51″W / 56.5162°N 4.7642°WCoordinates: 56°30′58″N 4°45′51″W / 56.5162°N 4.7642°W |
| Grid reference | NN300394 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | BRO |
| 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 |
 5,890 |
| 2012/13 |
5,736 |
| 2013/14 |
 5,932 |
| 2014/15 |
6,024 |
| 2015/16 |
5,880 |
| 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 Bridge of Orchy from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Bridge of Orchy railway station is a railway station in the village of Bridge of Orchy in the west of Scotland. This station is on the West Highland Line. Being an island platform, access is via a subway.
This station opened by the West Highland Railway on 7 August 1894.
The station was laid out with a crossing loop around an island platform and sidings on the east side of the station.
On 1 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.
The signal box, which had 16 levers, was situated at the south end of the island platform. From the time of its opening in 1894, the West Highland Railway was worked throughout by the electric token system.
In 1967, the method of working between Crianlarich and Rannoch was changed to the Scottish Region Tokenless Block system. The Up loop at Bridge of Orchy was signalled for running in either direction and the signal box was able to 'switch out' when not required.
In August 1985, the method of working between Crianlarich and Rannoch reverted to the electric token block system. The semaphore signals were removed on 24 November 1985 in preparation for the introduction of Radio Electronic Token Block (RETB).
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