Ardlui railway station

Infobox UK station
name = Ardlui
other_name= Àrd Laoigh
code = AUI

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caption = 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
manager = First ScotRail
locale = Ardlui
borough = Argyll and Bute
latitude = 56.302
longitude = -4.722
platforms = 2
lowusage0405 = 2,309
lowusage0506 = 2,344
lowusage0607 = 2,383
original = West Highland Railway
pregroup = North British Railway
postgroup = LNER
years = 7 August 1894
events = OpenButt (1995) page 17]
years1 =
events1 =|

Ardlui railway station is a remote rural railway station, serving Ardlui at the north end of Loch Lomond, in Scotland. The station is 82 km (51 miles) north of Glasgow Queen Street on the West Highland Line.

History

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.

When Sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by ScotRail until the Privatisation of British Railways.

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.

= Signalling =

From the time of its opening in 1894, the West Highland Railway was worked throughout by the electric token system. Ardlui signal box was situated on the island platform.

The semaphore signals were removed on 12 January 1986 in preparation for the introduction of Radio Electronic Token Block (RETB). The RETB, which is controlled from a Signalling Centre at Banavie railway station, was commissioned between Helensburgh Upper and Upper Tyndrum on 27 March 1988.

The Train Protection & Warning System was installed in 2003.

Services

There is an infrequent service daily southbound to Glasgow Queen Street and northbound to Mallaig or Oban.

rail line
next = Crianlarich
previous = Arrochar and Tarbet
route = First ScotRail
West Highland Line
col = FF80c0rail line
previous = Arrochar and Tarbet
next = Crianlarich
route = First ScotRail
Highland Caledonian Sleeper
Request stop
col = ff80c0rail line
next = Glen Falloch Platform
Line open; Station closed
previous = Arrochar and Tarbet
Line and Station open
route = West Highland Railway

North British Railway
col = NBR colour
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Gallery

References

Notes

Sources

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* [http://www.railscot.co.uk/West_Highland_Railway/frame.htm RAILSCOT on the West Highland Railway]