Alma Junction, Colorado

{{Short description|Former railway junction in Park County, Colorado, United States}}

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Alma Junction was the terminal of the Fairplay–Alma branch of the Colorado and Southern railway in Colorado in the United States, which has been abandoned since the early 20th century.{{sfn|Singewald|Butler|1941|p=35}}

The depot closed in 1924, and the branch itself in 1937.{{sfn|Simmons|2011|p=147}}

It was also known as London Junction, and according to timetables published in November 1883 there were two trains per day between it and Garos.{{sfn|Poor|1949|p=333}}

The spur line of the railway, through Park City up to the London Mines, had been completed in 1882, the Mines themselves having been established in the 1870s.{{sfn|Massey|Wilson|2006|p=72}}

By 1884, a small town of some 150 people had grown up around the depot.{{sfn|Massey|Wilson|2006|p=72}}

It had an ore processing works,{{sfn|Massey|Wilson|2006|p=72}}{{sfn|PCLHA|2015|p=84}} and for a short period between 1910 and 1912 (because of the death of its owner George Moe) a smelter.{{sfn|PCLHA|2015|p=84}}

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