World War One Audit of Surviving Remains
Date 3 October 2013
Event ID 964969
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type World War One Audit of Surviving Remains
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/964969
The Bandeath Munitions Depot was established in the First World War. The layout of the site and its railway (on which the munitions were delivered) are not clear, as, for security reasons, the Ordnance Survey maintained the polite fiction until well into the 1950s that the site was still open farmland. The munitions were stored in a large number of widely-separated warehouses (some 37 are still visible on modern aerial photographs) until needed, when they were loaded onto small ships for transhipment to naval vessels further down the river or at sea.
The railway branch line ran to the site from the Larbert to Alloa line at Throsk, where it crossed the river to link with the lines runing W to E towards the naval installations at Rosyth and Crombie. The railway bridge could open to allow these ships to pass up the river to Bandeath.
Many buildings survive on the site, as does the Admiralty pier and crane.
Information from HS/RCAHMS World War One Audit Project (GJB) 3 October 2013.
