Alloa_Junction_railway_station
Alloa Junction railway station
Railway station in Stirling, Scotland
Alloa Junction railway station was located near Plean, Stirling, Scotland, from 1850 to 1865.
Alloa Junction | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Location | Stirling Scotland |
| Coordinates | 56.0535°N 3.8452°W / 56.0535; -3.8452 |
| Other information | |
| Status | Disused |
| History | |
| Original company | Scottish Central Railway |
| Pre-grouping | Caledonian Railway |
| Key dates | |
| 2 September 1850 (1850-09-02) | Opened |
| November 1865 (1865-11) | Closed to passengers |
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 | |||
- 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.
- "Alloa Junction on 25 inch map Stirlingshire XXIV.2 (St. Ninians)". National Library of Scotland. 1862. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
- "Grand Cheap Pleasure Excursion". Stirling Observer. 12 June 1851. p. 1. Retrieved 28 July 2020 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- Bradshaw, George (1855). Bradshaw's General Railway and Steam Navigation Guide, for Great Britain and Ireland. Manchester: Bradshaw & Blacklock.
- Hurst, Geoffrey (1992). Register of Closed Railways: 1948-1991. Worksop, Nottinghamshire: Milepost Publications. pp. 5 & 70 (refs 0151 & 3083). ISBN 0-9477-9618-5.