| Alloa | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Place | Alloa |
| Local authority | Clackmannanshire |
| Operations | |
| Station code | ALO |
| Managed by | First ScotRail |
| Number of platforms | 1 |
| Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage | |
| 2008/09 * | 0.336 million |
| 2009/10 * | 0.390 million |
| History | |
| Original company | Stirling and Dunfermline Railway |
| Pre-grouping | North British Railway |
| Post-grouping | LNER |
| 28 August 1850 | Opened |
| 7 October 1968 | Closed |
| 15 May 2008 | Official reopening ceremony |
| 19 May 2008 | Reopened to regular passenger traffic |
| National Rail - UK railway stations | |
| A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Alloa from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year. | |
Alloa railway station is a railway station in the town of Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland, which was re-opened on Monday, 19 May 2008.[1]
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The original Alloa station was opened by the Stirling and Dunfermline Railway on 28 August 1850 when the line was opened. Passengers to Stirling were transported via ferry along the River Forth to Stirling. This situation continued until the line to Stirling was opened on 1 July 1852, however the terminus was to the north of the Forth. On 1 July 1853, the bridge across the Forth was opened and the line extended to the Scottish Central Railway station.
As the Stirling and Dunfermline Railway was part of the North British Railway, the station was absorbed into the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. It was closed by the British Railways Board in 1968.
| Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stirling | First ScotRail |
Terminus | ||
| Historical railways | ||||
| Cambus Line open; station closed |
North British Railway |
Clackmannan Road Line and station closed |
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| North British Railway Stirling and Dunfermline Railway |
Sauchie Line and station closed |
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| Terminus | North British Railway |
Clackmannan & Kennett Line open; station closed |
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| Throsk Platform Line and station closed |
Caledonian Railway |
Terminus | ||
The current service gives an hourly train to Stirling and Glasgow seven days a week, with an additional peak hour commuter service to Edinburgh running six days a week. The journey time to Stirling is 12–14 minutes. Services are usually operated by a Class 170 or a Class 158.
During the mid 1960s the lines in West Fife around Alloa were progressively closed. Cambus and Alloa both closed on 7 October 1968. Freight services continued until 1970.
Following the full closure of Alloa station, a leisure centre was built on the site.
In 2008, the railway reopened, with a new Alloa station situated to the east of its predecessor, due to the earlier construction of the leisure centre. A passenger-operated self-service ticket machine was installed in July 2008; the illustrated ticket was issued at Stirling station.
Under Scottish Executive funding, the line between Stirling and Alloa was reopened to both passenger and freight traffic, with a key benefit being a reduction in congestion on the Forth Railway Bridge.[2] Construction work started in 2005, with track laying commencing at the end of September 2006. It was originally projected that the station would reopen to passenger traffic in the Summer of 2007, but this date was then put back to allow for the upgrading of a level crossing.
The official opening took place on Thursday, 15 May 2008.
Passenger use of the new railway station has greatly exceeded forecasts, and since re-opening the service has been improved by increasing evening and Sunday frequencies from two-hourly to hourly, and by adding the peak hour service to Edinburgh in 2009. In its first year the station was used by 400,000 passengers, against a forecast of 155,000.[3]