Erskine Street bridge, Alloa
Introduction
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Erskine Street bridge, Alloa
Image: © A-M-Jervis Taken: 16 Apr 2008
This is the reverse of the photograph already in this square, labelled "Alloa Station Junction" http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/997081. It is taken from the footpath bridge at the end of the new station platform and shows the newly re-laid tracks ready for the Stirling - Alloa passenger services due to start about three weeks later. The left-hand one serves the platform at the new station and the right-hand passes beyond to carry coal trains to Longannet power station. The previous Alloa station, closed in October 1968, was mainly on the far side of the four-span Erskine Street bridge, although the platforms did protrude out this side. The grassy patch to the right marks the course of the branch to Dollar and Kinross, closed to passengers in June 1964. A leisure centre was built on the site of the old station and goods yard but sufficient room was left for a single railway track to curve round its south side.
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Image Location
Latitude
56.11771
Longitude
-3.792304