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Orange men meet at Alloa

In two months from the taking of this photograph this newly re-laid railway and station will open for the first public passenger trains to Alloa for nearly forty years and numerous men in orange high-visibility jackets have been checking that the associated new signalling arrangements will work satisfactorily. The track at the platform ends at a buffer stop and the track to the left is a separate goods line continuing through to Kincardine, which will enable coal imported via Hunterston on the Firth of Clyde to be carried to Longannet power station, Fife, by a more direct route than going round by the Forth Bridge. The flats on the left, known by their builder as "The Junction", had only recently been completed and the Asda supermarket, on the site of a former Skol lager brewery, was also brand-new.