Alloa Junction railway station

Alloa Junction
General information
LocationStirling
Scotland
Coordinates56°03′13″N 3°50′43″W / 56.0535°N 3.8452°W / 56.0535; -3.8452
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyScottish Central Railway
Pre-groupingCaledonian Railway
Key dates
2 September 1850 (1850-09-02)Opened
November 1865 (1865-11)Closed to passengers

Alloa Junction railway station was located near Plean, Stirling, Scotland, from 1850 to 1865.

History

The station was opened on 2 September 1850 by the Scottish Central Railway (SCR) as the junction station for the South Alloa Branch from their Larbert to Stirling main line to South Alloa.[1]

There is limited evidence of the station, the OS map for 1862 shows a clear area and a building in the "V" of the junction but it is not labelled as a station.[2] Trains did stop here though, the station featured in Bradshaw's Guide until 1865 with a very limited service, an excursion advertised as running from Greenhill and Alloa was due to call at Alloa Junction on the way to Aberdeen at 5:45 a.m. on 24 June 1851.[3][4]

The station closed to passengers around the end of 1865, it last appeared in Bradshaw in November 1865.[1]

The line to South Alloa closed to goods on 1 September 1950 and the final section of line to Bandeath Munitions Depot closed on 1 April 1978.[5]

Preceding station Historical railways Following station
Larbert
Line and station open 		  Caledonian Railway
Scottish Central Railway
   Plean
Line open and station closed
  Caledonian Railway
Scottish Central Railway
   Airth
Line and station closed

References

  1. ^ a b Quick, Michael (2022) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (PDF). version 5.04. Railway & Canal Historical Society. p. 49. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 November 2022.
  2. ^ "Alloa Junction on 25 inch map Stirlingshire XXIV.2 (St. Ninians)". National Library of Scotland. 1862. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
  3. ^ "Grand Cheap Pleasure Excursion". Stirling Observer. 12 June 1851. p. 1. Retrieved 28 July 2020 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. ^ Bradshaw, George (1855). Bradshaw's General Railway and Steam Navigation Guide, for Great Britain and Ireland. Manchester: Bradshaw & Blacklock.
  5. ^ Hurst, Geoffrey (1992). Register of Closed Railways: 1948-1991. Worksop, Nottinghamshire: Milepost Publications. pp. 5 & 70 (refs 0151 & 3083). ISBN 0-9477-9618-5.