Alloa Railway

Alloa Railway
Locale Scotland
Dates of operation 1879 (1879)
Successor British Railways

Alloa Railway

Legend
Stirling and Dunfermline Railway
Alloa(S&DR)
Alloa(Alloa Railway)

Alloa West Junction
Longcarse Junction
Stirling and Dunfermline Railway
Alloa Swing Bridge
Bandeath Military Base
Throsk
South Alloa(SCR)
Dunmore Junction
(Scottish Central Railway)South Alloa Branch

The Alloa Railway was authorised on 11 August 1879 to link the South Alloa Branch of the Scottish Central Railway to the Stirling and Dunfermline Railway.

History

The Alloa railway was connected to the Stirling and Dunfermline Railway by a connecting line from Longcarse Junction built by the North British Railway in exchange for reciprocal running powers.

British Railways added a second connection from Longcarse Junction to Alloa Marshalling Yard (parallel with the S&D line) in 1957. This made the turntable at Alloa passenger station redundant.

Alloa Swing Bridge

The swing bridge across the Forth was opened on 1 October 1885. It was subsequently closed twice due to storm damage in 1904/5 and 1920/1.

Closure

Connections to other lines

References


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