Alloa Marshalling Yard
Location type
SidingsName and dates
Alloa Marshalling Yard (1957-1987)Opened on the Alloa Marshalling Yard (British Railways).
Description
This was a large marshalling yard between Alloa and Cambus. Also known as Alloa New Yard and Alloa New Marshalling Yard.
This yard of twenty sidings was located to the west of Alloa and east of Cambus. It was to the south side of the main line and had a connection to the line to Alloa Bridge (the swing bridge). A watertower existed to the east end of the site. The yard was progressively cut back from the 1970s until closure in 1987 when the loop at Cambus came into use allowing traffic to Cambus Distillery and Glenochil Yeast to be run round in the former station area. After closure Cambus was the end of the line from Stirling.
The yard was probably established here due to a number of developments. The NCB opened new collieries Glenochil Mine (served by the branch from Cambus), Bogside Mine (on the Stirling and Dunfermline Railway) and Dollar Mine (on the Devon Valley Railway). Kincardine Power Station opened. It created a modern centralised marshalling yard for the area.
A planned locomotive depot was never built.
Tags
Marshalling YardAliases
Alloa New Yard Alloa New Marshalling Yard10/09/2023
| Nearby stations Cambus Alloa [1st] Alloa Ferry South Alloa Alloa Throsk Blackgrange Sauchie Alva Menstrie and Glenochil Manor Powis Clackmannan and Kennet Glenfoot Clackmannan Road Bannockburn | Cambus Loop Longcarse Junction Weirs Pumps Eglinton Bottling Stores Alloa West Junction Iron Foundry Kelliebank Bottling Stores Kelliebank Glass Works Forth Shipbuilding Yard Alloa Shed [CR] Bass Crest Brewery Craigward Malthouse Alloa Goods [CR] Tourist/other Alloa West Level Crossing Cambus Distillery |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 11/09/1954 | Stirling and Dunfermline Railway New marshalling proposed to the west of Alloa, Alloa Marshalling Yard. |
