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Mar Place, ALLOA, FK10 9TB

Taken from Erskine Street bridge, this shows the re-laid single line railway from Stirling curving round the leisure centre that was built on the old station site. On the left is the town centre bypass road and the fairly modern police station built on the site of an earlier bus station.

Standard Class 4 2-6-0 76110 has picked up a train from the marshalling yard http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6159311 and is proceeding east through the station. Passenger services ceased in 1968, but the line remained open for freight. Passenger services resumed in 2008 between Stirling and Alloa, but with a new station. The new situation can be seen here https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1010303 - the bridge in that view is the same as this one.

Standard Class 4 2-6-0 75110 has picked up a train from the marshalling yard http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6159311 and is proceeding east through the station. The bay platforms of the station are a reminder of the branch lines to Alva and Larbert which had already closed for passengers. Alloa would lose its passenger service in 1968. The site of the station is now occupied by a leisure centre, with just a single track remaining on the far right hand side of the picture. When a passenger service to Stirling was reinstated in 2008 a new station was built to the east.

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.

Opened in 1850 by the Stirling & Dunfermline Railway, this station closed to passengers in 1968 and completely in 1974. View west towards Cambus and Stirling. The island platform was located through the second arch from the left with the main building reaching up to the road bridge. As well as the current line from Dunfermline via Clackmannan, another line joined from the right, also from Dunfermline but via Oakley. Just over 10 years after this image was taken, the railway line was electrified.

View eastward, towards Kinross Junction, Thornton Junction via Oakley and Dunfermline Upper also via Culross and Dunfermline Lower, these being ex-NBR routes from Stirling, also ex-Caledonian services came from Larbert. This important junction station was closed on 7/10/68 - for goods not until 13/7/74, but happily this scene of desolation has passed, for a substantial new station was opened on 19/5/08, with a passenger service from Glasgow via Stirling over a line still kept open for coal traffic to Longannet Power Station on the Kincardine line - the half-rusted track seen here on the right. (See Image] by A.M. Jervis). Alloa station had lost its passenger services gradually: Dunfermline via Culross 7/7/30, Kinross Junction 15/6/64, Larbert 29/1/68, Stirling - Alloa - Oakley - Dunfermline 7/10/68.

Situated where Primrose Street meets the ring road.

North British Railway 0-6-0 locomotive, 1914 vintage, for local freight working, still very much at home in the central and Fife coalfields.

A pair of exLNER Class J38, designed by Sir Nigel Gresley in 1926 for local freight work. Taken from the end of the platform of the old Alloa Station. Behind the locomotives is the line to Dollar, closed to passengers in 1964 but remaining open for coal traffic. This is now a pedestrian and cycle route. Compare with https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/997081