Alva
Location type
StationName and dates
Alva (1863-1954)Opened on the Alva Railway.
Description
Alva was the terminus of a branch from Cambus. The station was in the south of the village.
This was a single platform terminus station with a loop. The platform was on the north side of the loop with a loading bank and goods shed at the east end and sidings to the north at the west end, approached from the west. The signal box was at the west end of the passenger platform.
The station closed to passengers in 1954. Signals were removed. The former signal box was replaced with a ground frame in 1957. The line closed completely in 1964.
The station building, of two storeys, still stands, in use as a house. The eastern portion of the site is now housing and the western parkland.
To the west was the Coblecrook Mill, possibly served by a siding. Before the railway opened a tramway ran south from near the mill to a coal pit beside the River Devon. A small portion of this tramway survived to serve a brick works at the north end and a clay pit south of the line.
Tags
Station terminusExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
| Nearby stations Sauchie Menstrie and Glenochil Glenfoot Cambus Alloa [1st] Alloa Tillicoultry Alloa Ferry Blackgrange South Alloa Clackmannan Road Manor Powis Clackmannan and Kennet Throsk Forest Mill | Coblecrook Mill Brick Works Clay Pit Coal Pit King O Muirs 2,3 Glenochil Mine King O^ Muirs Colliery King O Muirs 1 Devon Colliery Meta Pit Devon Iron Works Devon Colliery Furnacebank Pits Nos 1, 2 Devon Sidings Auchinbaird Siding Tourist/other Sauchie Tower Devon Colliery Signal Box |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 03/06/1863 | Alva Railway Line opened from Cambus to Alva. |
| 01/11/1954 | Alva Railway Alva to Cambus closed to passengers. |
| 02/03/1964 | Alva Railway Alva to Menstrie (excluded) closed to freight. |
