File:Alloa Station Junction - geograph.org.uk - 997081.jpg
From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Alloa_Station_Junction_-_geograph.org.uk_-_997081.jpg (640 × 480 pixels, file size: 82 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
File information
Structured data
Captions
Summary
[edit]DescriptionAlloa Station Junction - geograph.org.uk - 997081.jpg |
English: Alloa Station Junction Forty years ago and earlier this photograph could have been taken from the booking office of Alloa railway station. In fact the camera was balanced on the parapet of Erskine Street bridge, which is now closed to vehicles but retained for pedestrians. Until October 1968 (and for a decade or so afterwards until their total demolition) the platforms of Alloa railway station passed under the bridge and passengers would have descended stairs from the booking office to the platform. The present railway station at Alloa, opened in May 2008, is just beyond the bridge in the distance on the newly re-laid line from Stirling to Kincardine. The green dip to the left, with a partly flooded footpath disappearing round it, was the course of the Devon Valley railway to Dollar and Kinross, which lost its passenger services in 1964. The bridge and embankment with steps coming down from it, mark the course of the Earl of Mar's waggonway, opened in 1766 and used until 1924, from coal pits in the Sauchie area down to Alloa Harbour. Today its route through the town is maintained as a footpath. Forty years ago as well, the site of the flat-roofed apartments behind the brown fence was occupied by a locomotive depot and where the Asda supermarket is now was a lager brewery. |
Date | |
Source | From geograph.org.uk |
Author | A-M-Jervis |
Attribution (required by the license) InfoField | A-M-Jervis / Alloa Station Junction / |
InfoField | A-M-Jervis / Alloa Station Junction |
Camera location | 56° 07′ 04″ N, 3° 47′ 31″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 56.117670; -3.791900 |
---|
Object location | 56° 07′ 05″ N, 3° 47′ 23″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 56.118060; -3.789700 |
---|
Licensing
[edit]This image was taken from the Geograph project collection. See this photograph's page on the Geograph website for the photographer's contact details. The copyright on this image is owned by A-M-Jervis and is licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
|
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.
Attribution: A-M-Jervis
- You are free:
- to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
- to remix – to adapt the work
- Under the following conditions:
- attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
- share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
current | 03:23, 23 February 2011 | 640 × 480 (82 KB) | GeographBot (talk | contribs) | == {{int:filedesc}} == {{Information |description={{en|1=Alloa Station Junction Forty years ago and earlier this photograph could have been taken from the booking office of Alloa railway station. In fact the camera was balanced on the parapet of Erskine |
You cannot overwrite this file.
File usage on Commons
There are no pages that use this file.
Metadata
This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.
_error | 0 |
---|