Alloa Junction
Location type
StationName and dates
Alloa Junction (1862-1865)Opened on the Scottish Central Railway.
Opened on the South Alloa Branch (Scottish Central Railway).
Description
This junction was between the Scottish Central Railway of 1848 and its South Alloa Branch (Scottish Central Railway) of 1852. The branch was approached from the south, from Larbert.
This was briefly the site of a station between 1862 and 1865.
The main line was double track and branch originally single. A siding was on the west side of the branch at the junction, approached from the south.
The signal box was located in the 'V' of the junction. To the north of the junction was a row of railway cottages.
The railway was extended from Dunmore Junction to Alloa West Junction in 1885. Alloa Junction to Dunmore Junction was doubled in 1886.
The box was replaced in 1892. The new brick built box was also in the 'V' of the junction.
The branch closed to passengers in 1968 and was singled again in 1970, when the Alloa Bridge closed. Latterly used to approach RNAD Bandeath it closed altogether in 1978.
Tags
Junction station09/08/2020
| Nearby stations Airth Plean Larbert Throsk Denny Camelon Falkirk Camelon [1st] Bannockburn Bonnybridge Central Camelon [1st] South Alloa Falkirk Grahamston Bonnybridge Canal Goods Bonnybridge Alloa Ferry | Pleanmill Quarry Airth Colliery Larbert Clay Works Plean Colliery No 5 Bridge-end [Letham Moss] Stenhousemuir Siding Plean Colliery No 4 Plean Quarry Junction Muirhall Foundry Blackcraig Quarry Plean Quarry Muirhall Siding Tourist/other Plean House Stenhousemuir Signal Box Carnock House |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 02/09/1850 | South Alloa Branch (Scottish Central Railway) Alloa Junction to South Alloa opened to goods and minerals. |
| 01/07/1853 | South Alloa Branch (Scottish Central Railway) Alloa Junction to South Alloa opened to passengers. Ferry used to cross the River Forth to Alloa. |
| / /1884 | South Alloa Branch (Scottish Central Railway) Permission granted to double the branch from Alloa Junction to Dunmore Junction. |
| 13/07/1886 | South Alloa Branch (Scottish Central Railway) Alloa Junction to Dunmore Junction doubling completed. |
| 10/01/1951 | Scottish Central Railway Following storm damage to signalling at Alloa Junction there is a collision resulting in 2 deaths. |
| 29/01/1968 | Alloa RailwaySouth Alloa Branch (Scottish Central Railway) Alloa (Alloa West Junction) to Larbert (Alloa Junction) closed to passengers. Railbuses cease crossing the Alloa Bridge. |
| 01/04/1978 | Alloa RailwaySouth Alloa Branch (Scottish Central Railway) Throsk to Dunmore Junction to Alloa Junction closed to freight. |
