Alloa, Forth Rail Bridge

NS89SE 79 8627 9156 to 8616 9110

Alloa Bridge (Dismantled) [NAT]

OS 1:10,000 map, 1991.

Not to be confused with (Queensferry Narrows) Forth Railway Bridge (NT 1390 7790 to 1315 8082), for which see NT17NW 70.

The Alloa Railway built a 1600 ft (488m) swing bridge across the river. The North British Railway had running powers over this route.

The line between Alloa (West Junction) and Larbert (Alloa Junction) was closed to regular passenger traffic on 29 January 1968, the bridge being subsequently demolished.

J Thomas 1971; G Daniels and L Dench 1980.

This bridge (which was usually known as Alloa Bridge) was based upon the branch line constructed by the Scottish Central Rly. to the ferry terminal at South Alloa from the main Stirling line at Alloa Junction (NS 852 860), which was intended to form part of the proposed Glasgow and Dundee Junction Rly.

Regular passenger services across the bridge were withdrawn on 29 January 1968, goods services (of which there were numerous) ending in May of the same year. Demolition started nine months later, and only the piers now remain.

W S Bruce 1980.

This bridge formerly carried the Larbert-Airth-Alloa branch of the Caledonian Rly. across the River Forth, between the parishes of Airth (county of Clackmannanshire, subsequently Clackmannan District of Central Region) and St Ninians (county of Stirlingshire, subsequently Stirling District of Central Region).

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 12 November 1996.

The remains of a rail bridge spans the Forth, c 400m west of Throsk at its south end and the Rhind on the north side. The bridge has been dismantled and only its vertical supports remain. The metal parts of the bridge supports are exposed to continuous weathering and are corroding. The rail bridge was in use as such in 1946. B72 4258-9 15/5/46.

Site recorded by GUARD during the Coastal Assessment Survey for Historic Scotland, 'The Firth of Forth from Dunbar to the Coast of Fife' 22nd February 1996.