Stirling and Dunfermline Railway

Introduction

This line is partly open with passenger services operating between Stirling and Alloa. After 2008, when the line partly re-opening, It was used between Stirling and Kincardine Junction (and on to Kincardine) for loaded coal trains for Longannet Power Station. Most of the open portion, Stirling to Alloa station, is being electrified. Jeffray Wotherspoon's SAK pages



Dates

  /  /1810Alloa Brewery
Founded. The brewery was later served by a siding from the east end of Alloa [1st] station on the Stirling and Dunfermline Railway.
  /  /1846Stirling and Dunfermline Railway
Line authorised.
  /  /1849Stirling and Dunfermline Railway
Junction with the Scottish Central Railway authorised north of the River Forth.
  /  /1849Stirling and Dunfermline Railway
Opened from Dunfermline to Oakley to goods and minerals. A connection to the Forth Iron Works Railway was made at Oakley.
28/08/1850Stirling and Dunfermline Railway
Forth Iron Works Railway
Opened from Oakley to Alloa. Opened from Dunfermline to Alloa for passengers. A branch to Alloa Harbour station from Alloa was used for passengers travelling on to Stirling by boats along the River Forth.
31/12/1850Railway Clearing House
By this date, Ardrossan Railway, Caledonian Railway, Cockermouth and Workington Railway, Eastern Counties Railway, East Lincolnshire Railway, Fleetwood, Preston and West Riding Junction Railway, Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway, Great Northern Railway, Huddersfield and Manchester Railway (London and North Western Railway), Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, Maryport and Carlisle Railway, North British Railway, Preston and Wyre Railway, Dock and Harbour, Shrewsbury and Chester Railway, South Staffordshire Railway, Stockton and Darlington Railway, Stockton and Hartlepool Railway, St Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway, Stirling and Dunfermline Railway, Whitehaven Junction Railway and York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway join.
03/06/1851Stirling and Dunfermline Railway
Opened a branch from Alloa [1st] to temporary terminus at Glenfoot, near Tillicoultry.
  /12/1851Stirling and Dunfermline Railway
Branch extended from Glenfoot to Tillicoultry. Glenfoot closed.
01/07/1852Stirling and Dunfermline Railway
Opened from Alloa to Stirling. Stirling Forth Viaduct [SandD] at Stirling opened alongside the Scottish Central Railway's bridge, to run south to Stirling East station.
12/09/1853Scottish Central Railway Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Stirling and Dunfermline Railway
Operating agreement for the use of Stirling station made by Scottish Central Railway, Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway and Stirling and Dunfermline Railway.
  /  /1854Sauchie Waggonway
Closed, due to Stirling and Dunfermline Railway's branch from Alloa to Tillicoultry being opened.
  /  /1865Stirling and Dunfermline Railway
Two road locomotive shed opened at Alloa Shed.
  /  /1870Carron Iron Company
Blairhall Colliery sunk for blackband ironstone. The mine was served by the Stirling and Dunfermline Railway.
  /  /1889Scottish Central Railway Stirling and Dunfermline Railway
Shore Road Level Crossing [CR] authorised to be replaced by road bridges and level crossing stopped up (short length of Shore Road survives on east side). Authorisation to expand Stirling station.
  /  /1891Scottish Central Railway Stirling and Dunfermline Railway
Shore Road and Shore Road Level Crossing [CR] replaced by new road carried on bridges over line. Level crossing stopped up.
  /  /1899Scottish Central Railway Stirling and Dunfermline Railway Forth and Clyde Junction Railway
Stirling remodelling - deviation of the Stirling and Dunfermline Railway (now owned by North British Railway) and Forth and Clyde Junction Railway authorised. The new deviation to be vested in the respective companies
21/07/1912Stirling and Dunfermline Railway
Blairhall signalbox opened. (New shafts at Blairhall Colliery sunk in 1906).
01/12/1921Stirling and Dunfermline Railway
Clackmannan Road station closed
09/03/1925Stirling and Dunfermline Railway
Oakley renamed Oakley (Fife).
22/09/1930Stirling and Dunfermline Railway
Sauchie station closed.
25/07/1935Fife Coal Company
First sod of the Comrie Colliery cut for this modern coal mine. 2 pits sunk. An aerial ropeway carried waste away to a bing and the mine was served by a branch from the Stirling and Dunfermline Railway which had formerly served the Kinnedar Pit. There was a level crossing and signal box in Comrie LC [Fife] and new handling sidings installed at Oakley.
  /  /1950Stirling and Dunfermline Railway
Stirling shed renamed Shore Road Shed [NB].
11/09/1954Stirling and Dunfermline Railway
New marshalling proposed to the west of Alloa, Alloa Marshalling Yard.
04/07/1955Stirling and Dunfermline Railway
Causewayhead station closed
16/09/1957Stirling and Dunfermline Railway
Shore Road Shed [NB] closed, locomotives transferred to Stirling South Shed.
13/09/1958Stirling and Dunfermline Railway
Bogside Fife and East Grange stations closed.
19/01/1967Stirling and Dunfermline Railway
Alloa Shed closed.
06/05/1968Stirling and Dunfermline Railway
Dunfermline; Townhill Junction to Touch North Junction closed to passengers.
07/10/1968Stirling and Dunfermline Railway
Stirling to Alloa [1st] to Dunfermline Lower (Touch South Junction) closed to passengers.
  /06/1970National Coal Board
Stirling and Dunfermline Railway
Bringing coal to the surface at Bogside Mine ceases. Sidings closed.
18/06/1972Stirling and Dunfermline Railway
Blairhall signal box closed, replaced by a ground frame now released from Oakley.
  /  /1973Devon Valley Railway
Stirling and Dunfermline Railway
Dollar Mine to Alloa Co-op Coal Siding (excluded) closed.
  /02/1973Stirling and Dunfermline Railway
Blairhall Colliery sidings re-opened by the Opencast Executive. Many sidings were lifted in 1974.
25/08/1973Stirling and Dunfermline Railway
Devon Valley Railway
Final train to Dollar, the Branch Line Society's Stirling and Dunfermline Railtour.
  /03/1977Stirling and Dunfermline Railway
Alloa Harbour branch closed.
  /06/1978Stirling and Dunfermline Railway
Alloa New Yard (excluded) to Longcarse Junction (a headshunt by this date) to Alloa Goods [CR] coal yard closed.
06/10/1979Stirling and Dunfermline Railway
Kincardine Junction (excluded) to Bogside (excluded) closed. Signalling and connections removed at the former Alloa station. Lines from Alloa Co-op Coal Siding and Kincardine Junction run as two parallel single tracks from Alloa to Alloa West Junction. (Other sources suggest 06/1979 and 07/1979.)
  /02/1980Stirling and Dunfermline Railway
Much of Alloa New Yard (Nos 1 to 5 sidings and east end headshunt) secured out of use. Trains to Menstrie continue to round in the yard. Most trains heading east from Cambus travel via the yard to reach Alloa West Junction, rather than use the main line.
  /  /1982Stirling and Dunfermline Railway
Bogside to Oakley (excluded) closed.
  /  /1984Stirling and Dunfermline Railway
Dunfermline Branch (Edinburgh and Northern Railway)
Comrie Colliery to Oakley to Dunfermline Upper closed. Dunfermline Upper to Townhill Junction closed.
  /  /1985Stirling and Dunfermline Railway Kincardine Line (North British Railway)
Longannet Power Station (excluded) to Alloa West Junction (excluded) out of use. Track left in place for possible re-opening.
  /  /1985Stirling and Dunfermline Railway
Alloa Co-op Coal Siding to Alloa West Junction (excluded) closed. Line lifted from Alloa Co-op Coal Siding to Alloa West Junction.
20/12/1987Stirling and Dunfermline Railway
Alloa New Yard closed on opening of rounding loop at Cambus. A lifted track panel could be replaced to allow access which was done some time later for a light locomotive running to Alloa West Level Crossing. Cambus Junction and Alloa West Junction signal boxes closed. Panels lifted in Alloa New Yard to block access (some lifted and relaid to form the loop).
  /  /1988Stirling and Dunfermline Railway
Last locomotive to run east to Alloa West Junction allowed by relaying track panel at Cambus. Afterwards the panel removed again.
  /  /1989Stirling and Dunfermline Railway
Derelict Alloa New Yard lifted. The main line, longer disused, is left in place.
  /  /1994Alva Railway Stirling and Dunfermline Railway
Stirling to Cambus and Menstrie (Glenochil Yeast) closed completely. The end nearest Stirling saw occasional use by tampers.
26/02/2003Stirling and Dunfermline Railway Kincardine Line (North British Railway)
Bill presented to the Scottish Parliament by Clackmannanshire Council for the re-opening of the line between Stirling, Alloa and Kincardine. (No bill had closed the line.)
  /03/2005Stirling and Dunfermline Railway
Kincardine Branch (North British Railway
Vegetation removal in preparation for S-A-K line re-opening works.
02/04/2008Stirling and Dunfermline Railway
First driver training service arrives at the new and not yet opened Alloa station.
19/05/2008Stirling and Dunfermline Railway
Kincardine Branch (North British Railway)
The railway between Stirling and Alloa re-opens to passengers. The line between Stirling and Longannet Power Station via Alloa re-opens to freight providing an alternative route to the Forth Bridge.

Portions of line and locations

This line is divided into a number of portions.


Stirling to Dunfermline

Passenger and goods line from Stirling Middle Junction to Dunfermline [Upper].

This junction is south of Stirling station it is the location where the main line from Glasgow Queen Street, Edinburgh Waverley and the south meets the branch east to Alloa.
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Scottish Central Railway
An Edinburgh service passes Stirling Middle on 26 September 2019. I must be getting used to 385s as they no longer look quite so much like ...
David Panton 26/09/2019
1E13 departing from Stirling with the Inverness to London Kings Cross. ...
Alastair McLellan 29/07/2017
Perth based Black 5 4-6-0 no 44801 makes a fine sight as it passes Stirling South with an up express on Saturday 26 August 1950. ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 26/08/1950
Colas 56302 enters Stirling with the threatened Grangemouth Ineos - Lairg fuel tanks on 23rd August 2017. Stirling Middle signal box is in the ...
Bill Roberton 23/08/2017
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This was the Stirling and Dunfermline Railway station directly alongside and to the east of the Scottish Central Railway's station. Today the stations are virtually indistinguishable and were officially merged in 1968. See the entry for Stirling. ...

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This level crossing was to the north of Sitrling East station, the Stirling and Dunfermline Railway and later North British Railway station. It was controlled by a signal box, Shore Road Level Crossing Signal Box, which was opened in 1887. This was on the west side of the line and south of the level crossing. Just to the west was the equivalent Shore Road Level Crossing [CR].
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Forth and Clyde Junction Railway




This was a two road locomotive shed approached from the north, from Shore Road Signal Box, over its turntable. It was on the east side of the Stirling and Dunfermline Railway north of Stirling station. To the east of the shed was Shore Road Goods.
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Reid ex-NB C15 4-4-2T 67462 on shed at Shore Road, Stirling, on Saturday 26 August 1950. [Ref query 22 March 2019] ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 26/08/1950
Ex-Caledonian 0-6-0 no 57460 passing Stirling's Shore Road shed with a Dunfermline freight on 26 August 1951.
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G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 26/08/1951
Ex-North British 'Scott' class 4-4-0 no 62426 Cuddie Headrigg on shed at Stirling (Shore Road) on Saturday 26 August 1950. Latterly a sub to ...
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 26/08/1950
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Shore Road Goods box was to the north of Shore Road Level Crossing [NB] and just south of Stirling Forth Viaduct [SandD]. The box was located on the west side of the NB line (with its back to the CR line).
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This is a double track viaduct which crosses the River Forth to the north of Stirling station (and Stirling North Junction). The viaduct carries the line from Stirling to Alloa, Kincardine and Dunfermline Town.
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A DMU bound for Alloa crossing the Forth shortly after leaving Stirling in the summer of 2008. ...
John Furnevel 12/06/2008
Now did we pick green for this bridge for a reason? View looks north. ...
Ewan Crawford 12/11/2006
Work continues on the NBR Forth viaduct north of Stirling. ...
Ewan Crawford 24/06/2006
The old NBR viaduct at Stirling undergoes repairs whilst a train crosses the parallel old CR viaduct. ...
Ewan Crawford 12/05/2006
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Between 1906 and 1907 there was a temporary Shore Road North box to the north of Stirling Forth Viaduct [SandD].
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This was a two platform station in traditional North British Railway style. The goods yard was at the west end of the station, north of the line and approached from the west. The signal box was on the eastbound platform. The box opened in 1900 and closed in 1964.
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A 170 heads out of Stirling with a working to Alloa in March 2010. The photo was taken from the grounds of the National Wallace Monument. ...
John Clark 24/03/2010
At just after noon on a warm and sunny 3rd July 2010, 170393 is recorded speeding through Causewayhead en route to Alloa following its departure from ...
Mark Dufton 03/07/2010
Presumably on a driver training run for future diversions, DRS 68004 'Rapid' took two up and two down trips between Stirling and Dunfermline on ...
Mark Dufton 12/12/2020
On the new Alloa line 170476 passes Waterside LC heading for Stirling and Glasgow Queen Street. ...
Brian Forbes /08/2008
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This level crossing is at Waterside, just east of the former Causewayhead station on the line between Stirling and Alloa.
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In July 1996 it was obviously some time since road traffic had been held up at Waterside level crossing in Causewayhead, Stirling. Happily though the ...
David Panton 22/07/1997
The Alloa opening, taken at Waterside Level Crossing (sometimes known as Cambuskenneth crossing) on 15th May. ...
Hamish Baillie 15/05/2008
The gates at Waterside were just closing as I approached so I came across this Alloa service by luck (RTT is of course only for nerds). I think the ...
David Panton 21/08/2019
A photograph taken at Waterside Level Crossing, Causewayhead, on the re-opening of the Stirling - Alloa - Kincardine line. Deltic 55022 Royal Scots ...
Hamish Baillie 15/05/2008
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This was a level crossing to the east of Causewayhead, Waterside Level Crossing and the Abbey Craig on which the Wallace Monument stands.
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This colliery was sunk between 1911 and 1914 by the Manor Powis Coal Company. It was equipped with Baum washers.
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A signal box was opened at Manor Powis in 1913 for a new colliery, Manor Powis Colliery opened around 1914. A halt for the colliery was opened in 1916. The location was named for a now ruinous manor house just to the north.
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12.12.06 and track is laid albeit roughly, sleepers and ballast for immediate use. ...
Brian Forbes /12/2006
170 477 heads east through Manor Powis with a Glasgow Queen Street - Alloa service on 18 February.
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Bill Roberton 18/02/2011
New track waiting to be laid at Manor Powis in May 2006. ...
Ewan Crawford 06/05/2006
Looking east from the LC. Another shoogly line. ...
Ewan Crawford 12/11/2006
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Blackgrange was a very short lived station at the Blackgrange Level Crossing. Probably open for less than a year. The location was rural.
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With a fine sense of occasion, a road vehicle defies convention and behaves as a train on April Fools' day 2018, much to the enjoyment of the driver. ...
Mark Dufton 01/04/2018
No doubt the Wallace Monument will feature in many photographs of the line re-opened. Looking west at Blackgrange. ...
Ewan Crawford 01/07/2006
170 460 nears Blackgrange level crossing with a Glasgow Queen Street - Alloa service on 20 January. ...
Bill Roberton 20/01/2009
A light 66084 heads west at Blackgrange. This slotted in between the passenger trains on the first public day of service. ...
Ewan Crawford 19/05/2008
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A 26 leaves Cambus (very slowly due to the poor condition of the viaduct and track) in 1989 with wagons from DCL at Cambus and Glenochil Yeast at ...
Ewan Crawford //1989
A 26 draws a long train west over the Devon Viaduct at Cambus. Due to the condition of the line the speed was very low. See image 16450. ...
Ewan Crawford //1988
Viaduct at Cambus before the track was re-laid. See 8397. ...
Ewan Crawford 18/02/2006
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The junction was immediately west of Cambus station and was formed between the Stirling and Dunfermline Railway and the Alva Railway, the branch. The branch opened in 1863. It was single track and the main line double.
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Alva Railway
A 26 backs down on a train of Molasses at Cambus Junction. View looks west. ...
Ewan Crawford //1988
26 with a Molasses train crosses the level crossing at Cambus Junction. ...
Ewan Crawford //1988
A 26 heads west from Cambus Junction. On the right is the Wallace Monument. ...
Ewan Crawford //1988
Molasses for Menstrie arriving at Cambus. ...
Ewan Crawford //1989
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Cambus Distillery sidings in 1987. There are five 'bogies' parked, usage unknown. ...
Bill Roberton //1987
A privately owned 08 shunter for the DCL works by Cambus station. ...
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Privately owned 08443 parked at Cambus Distillery; later preserved at Bo'ness. ...
Bill Roberton //1987
Train in Cambus DCL seen from the closed Cambus station. ...
Ewan Crawford //1988
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This was a three platform station to the west of a level crossing and east of Cambus Junction. A footbridge was provided by the level crossing used to cross between the platforms and also for pedestrians when the crossing was closed.
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Alloa Marshalling Yard (British Railways)
During reinstatement of the Srirling - Alloa - Kincardine line a PW materials delivery and distribution hub was established on vacant land at Cambus, ...
John Furnevel 17/10/2007
An Alloa bound train seen from the level crossing at Cambus. What looks suspiciously like a base for an electrification mast can be seen on the right. ...
Ewan Crawford 08/10/2017
26037 runs round a train of Molasses tanks at Cambus, bound for Menstrie, on 27 January 1991. ...
Bill Roberton //1991
One of the Hunterston - Longannet coal trains approaching Cambus level crossing from the west on 22 December 2008. The Diageo complex stands beyond ...
John Furnevel 22/12/2008
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A 158 heads east towards Alloa after clearing Cambus level crossing on 26 April 2018. Cambus Loop is visible just beyond the train, although the ...
John Furnevel 26/04/2018
Looking east at the new Cambus loop with Alloa as the backdrop. This is the extent of the tracklaying east from Stirling. ...
Ewan Crawford 12/11/2006
The 1018 service from Glasgow Queen Street approaching Alloa West on 12 June 2008. ...
John Furnevel 12/06/2008
ScotRail 158709 approaching Cambus loop on 26 April 2018 with the 1041 Alloa - Glasgow Queen Street. The line between Stirling and Alloa reopened in ...
John Furnevel 26/04/2018
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This was the junction between the Stirling and Dunfermline Railway of 1852 and the Alloa West to Longcarse (North British Railway) of 1885 which connected to the Alloa Railway. This was a junction between two double track lines immediately west of a level crossing ('Grange Crossing').
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Alloa Railway
Alloa Marshalling Yard (British Railways)
Looking west from the crossing. The signalbox was to the left of this once double track mainline. ...
Ewan Crawford 12/11/2006
Convoy. An eastbound PW 'train' photographed after leaving Cambus on 4 October 2007 heading for Alloa. ...
John Furnevel 04/10/2007
West Coast Railways Class 47 “Chris Fudge” (formerly 47 747) passes the site of the former Alloa West level crossing on the rear of the ...
Mark Dufton 14/05/2017
Looking west to Alloa West level crossing. Sorting the drainage before putting down the ballast. ...
Ewan Crawford 12/11/2006
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This was a level crossing with Grange Place in the west of Alloa. The crossing was originally known as Grange Crossing.
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A Glasgow Queen Street to Alloa service passes the site of the former Alloa West level crossing (over Grange Road) on 31st March 2013. The road ...
Mark Dufton 31/03/2012
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This double track junction was to the west of Alloa [1st] station on the Stirling and Dunfermline Railway. Access to the harbour branch was from the east.
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This was the junction for the harbour looking west. The harbour line was to the left but the line being re-opened is straight ahead. ...
Ewan Crawford 12/11/2006
Deltic 55022 Royal Scots Grey at the rear of one of the Alloa Reopening specials leaving Alloa for Stirling on 15 May 2008. ...
Bill Roberton 15/05/2008
Alloa, 250107. Tracklaying progress to the west of the old station site. ...
Bill Roberton 25/01/2007
East portal of the Alloa Harbour Tunnel. This branch served the short-lived original terminus of the line at Alloa Ferry, prior to completion of the ...
Ewan Crawford 05/01/2008
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At its height this was a very fine station. It had an island platform with two bays at the west end, a large stone main building to the east and large glass canopies over the platforms. A stone bridge of four arches crossed the line at the east end of the station, separating the station building and bay platforms.
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The site of the original station in Alloa, closed on 7th October 1968, looking towards Stirling on 16th May 2016. The new station, opened just under ...
David Bosher 16/05/2016
On 26 September 2019 a terminating service from Glasgow passes the site of the old station and crosses the points at Alloa Station Junction, named for ...
David Panton 26/09/2019
158871 leaves Alloa on 13 July with the 11.43 to Glasgow Queen Street.
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Bill Roberton 13/07/2011
Arriving in Alloa just ahead of the rain on 26 April 2018 is the 0920 from Glasgow Queen Street. The train is running past the site of the original ...
John Furnevel 26/04/2018
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This junction was at the east end of Alloa [1st] station and was formed, in 1851, between the 1850 Dunfermline [2nd] to Alloa [1st] main line alignment of the Stirling and Dunfermline Railway and its 1851 branch to Tillicoultry.
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Looking south west, back towards the site of the old Alloa station in January 2007 along the trackbed of the Devon Valley line. The embankment on the ...
John Furnevel 23/01/2007
Grab shot from the brake van of a class 20-hauled freight approaching Alloa East box in the early summer of 1973. The freight is about to trundle ...
David Spaven //1973
Approaching Alloa east junction in 1973 on a railtour. ...
Bill Roberton //1973
Alloa looking east over the former junction between the Devon Valley line (left, lifted) and Dunfermline line (not lifted). This was the east end of ...
Ewan Crawford //1988
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This is a single platform station opened in 2008 to the east of the original Alloa [1st] station. It is a terminus being on a siding served from the west, the direction of Stirling.
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A ScotRail 158 DMU waits at the buffer stops at Alloa station on 26 April 2018. The passenger information display shows the train to be the 1041 ...
John Furnevel 26/04/2018
66167 passing the new Alloa station with empties from Longannet PS - Hunterston HL. ...
John Clark 23/02/2007
The Rotary Club of Alloa barrel-train on the platform at Alloa station. ...
John Yellowlees 13/06/2016
A bright and sunny May morning in 2012 sees a train of coal empties from Longannet Power Station heading west along the Alloa station bypass line on ...
John Furnevel 09/05/2012
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This two road shed was east of Alloa [1st], directly to the north of today's Alloa station.
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The railway here opened in 1850, the line opening between Dunfermline Upper and Alloa [1st]. This level crossing was also known as Gaberston or Gabberston Crossing. Gaberston is to the north. The line was double track. The road was previously known as Cross Road.
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New bridge on the road which will replace Hilton Road. The line will pass underneath. View looks west. ...
Ewan Crawford 12/11/2006
Looking east to Kincardine. ...
Ewan Crawford 12/11/2006
Still open but not for much longer. View looks north. ...
Ewan Crawford 12/11/2006
Looking west to Alloa. The footbridge has been re-painted red. ...
Ewan Crawford 12/11/2006
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This siding was east of Hilton Road Level Crossing. The siding was a loop off the eastbound line and on the north side of the railway. Crossovers allowed access to the siding from the westbound line. The signal box, 'Whinhill Colliery', was on the south side of the line.
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This loop is east of Alloa. It runs west from the site of Kincardine Junction to roughly the site of Whinhill Siding, a passing loop on an otherwise single track line between Stirling and Charlestown Junction, save for Cambus Loop, Alloa station siding at the out of use sidings at Longannet Power Station.
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Road diesel photo bombs rail diesel (70816) at Alloa Loop on 15th March 2020. The train is traveling from Burntisland to Millerhill. ...
Mark Dufton 15/03/2020
Freightliner 66550 runs through Alloa Loop with coal from Hunterston High Level to Longannet Power Station. ...
Bill Roberton 29/09/2015
Alloa East looking west. The trackbed runs from left to bottom centre and the new bypass road is under construction. ...
Ewan Crawford 23/10/2005
Coal empties from Longannet westbound passing Alloa loop on a hot day in May 2012. The train has just crossed Helensfield Bridge over the A907 (right ...
John Furnevel 09/05/2012
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At this junction the Kincardine Branch (North British Railway) met the older Stirling and Dunfermline Railway. The branch was to become a loop when extended to Elbowend Junction. The junction was double track with the branch singling just beyond the junction. The signal box was in the 'V' of the junction. The junction was north of Kincardine itself.
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The new bridge under construction where the line will cross the A907. The is the limit of the track west from Kincardine. ...
Ewan Crawford 12/11/2006
A new bridge is under construction over the Dunfermline-Alloa road. The line from Kincardine joined the main Stirling-Dunfermline line (which was ...
Mark Poustie 23/09/2006
The tower on the hill above Clackmannan has seen many waggonways and railways come and go. Today it gets to see the extent of the track of the ...
Ewan Crawford 12/11/2006
Helensfield bridge, east of Alloa, on 22 December 2006. The new deck was hoisted into place the previous weekend. ...
John Furnevel 22/12/2006
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This was a two platform station. It was between the B910 and a viaduct over the Black Devon. There was a small goods yard on the north side, east end of the station, approached from the east.
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The two stations serving Clackmannan were often referred to as North (S&D) and South (Kincardine line). The north station was opened as ...
John Furnevel 28/02/2008
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Approximately 2 miles east of Alloa on the former S&D route the railway crossed the valley of the Black Devon on a substantial viaduct. The line ...
John Furnevel 28/02/2008
A rainstorm moving south from the Ochil Hills reaches the old railway viaduct over the Black Devon, some 2 miles east of Alloa. Situated on the former ...
John Furnevel 28/02/2008
Viaduct over the Black Devon. Trees now make photography of the viaduct very challenging ...
Mark Poustie 23/09/2006
Approximately two miles east of Alloa station, the S&D route crossed a substantial viaduct over the Black Devon. View is east towards Dunfermline on ...
John Furnevel 28/02/2008
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This signal box opened in 1945, replacing a temporary box of 1944. The box was for the siding to Tulligarth Colliery Pit No 2, on the south side of the line and east of the Black Devon Viaduct. The colliery predated the boxes and was expanded around 1935-45. The western part of the site had the Cherryton Brick Works. The signal box was on the south side of the junction for the siding ...

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This brick works was built in the Tulligarth Colliery area. It was on the immediate south side of the Stirling and Dunfermline Railway which served it.
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Brick kilns at the former Cherryton Brick Works. This works closed in the early 1980s. ...
Duncan Ross 15/06/2019
Remains of the Cherryton Brick Works with its notable high chimney. This was a little was east of the Black Devon. Sidings served the brick works by ...
Duncan Ross 15/06/2019
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This was a two platform station on a double track railway.
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The site of Forest Mill station looking towards Dunfermline. A small goods yard was located on the right here. ...
Mark Poustie 23/09/2006
A surviving gradient post indicating the start of the lengthy descent to Kincardine Junction in the Alloa direction. ...
Mark Poustie 23/09/2006
The site of Forest Mill station looking towards Alloa. Rubble heaps on the left mark the down platform. ...
Mark Poustie 23/09/2006
Between Forest Mill and Clackmannan Road. The long descent from Forest Mill to Kincardine Junction is quite apparent in this picture. Stirling ...
Mark Poustie 23/09/2006
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Approximately 2 miles east of Alloa on the former S&D route the railway crossed the valley of the Black Devon on a substantial viaduct. The line ...
John Furnevel 28/02/2008
A rainstorm moving south from the Ochil Hills reaches the old railway viaduct over the Black Devon, some 2 miles east of Alloa. Situated on the former ...
John Furnevel 28/02/2008
Viaduct over the Black Devon. Trees now make photography of the viaduct very challenging ...
Mark Poustie 23/09/2006
Approximately two miles east of Alloa station, the S&D route crossed a substantial viaduct over the Black Devon. View is east towards Dunfermline on ...
John Furnevel 28/02/2008
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This siding was on the north side of the line, accessed from the east between Bogside Fife and Forest Mill. ...

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This was a two platform station on the Stirling and Dunfermline Railway. There were sidings on the north side, latterly gunpowder sidings served from the east. The platforms were to the east. The station house was to the north of the eastbound platform and still exists. (The 1895 OS map shows this was also the local post office.)
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View west at Bogside showing the waiting room surviving on the former westbound platform and signal box beyond.
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Duncan Ross 15/06/2019
The signal box at Bogside Fife viewed from the west in June 2019. The station was beyond and the goods yard off to the left. ...
Duncan Ross 15/06/2019
The old signal box at Bogside, Fife, seen here in the summer of 2019. View is west along the trackbed of the former S&D route in the general direction ...
Andy Furnevel 23/06/2019
Looking south west along the trackbed of the Stirling & Dunfermline route towards Alloa on 23 June 2019 showing the surviving, but deteriorating, ...
Andy Furnevel 23/06/2019
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This was a two platform station. There was a station house near the westbound platform. A station building was added on the westbound platform and a smaller on the eastbound.
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About to cross the Dean Viaduct, whose eight arches carried the Stirling & Dunfermline Railway over the Grange Burn until closure of this section of ...
Andy Furnevel 23/06/2019
View of Comrie Dean Viaduct, near Blairhall Junction, looking east in November 2018. The railway closed to passengers on 7 October 1968 and to freight ...
Bill Roberton 20/11/2018
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A view up the short branch leading to Blairhall Colliery from the Stirling - Dunfermline line. ...
Mark Poustie 23/09/2006
Looking west towards Comrie Dean Viaduct, with the route of the Blairhill Colliery branch (closed in 1969) diverging to the left. See image ...
Bill Roberton 20/11/2018
Looking west. The signal box stood on the right roughly behind the wooden bench. The photographer recalls seeing 25 035 here with a demolition train ...
Mark Poustie 23/09/2006
Junction for the branch to Blairhall Colliery (closed 1969 although the washery remained open for some time) which diverged left from the main line to ...
Mark Poustie 23/09/2006
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This was a two platform station. It was built over station road, south of Oakley. There was a goods yard to the west, on the south side of the line and served from the west. The main station building was on the westbound platform, just to the west of the bridge.
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Kinnedar Branch (North British Railway)
Forth Ironworks Railway
Looking west. A number of sidings ran parallel to the main line in the centre while an extensive yard fanned out right at the start of the Comrie ...
Mark Poustie 23/09/2006
Oakley. The branch to Comrie Colliery (and formerly, to Oakley Colliery) forked off to the right here with extensive BR-NCB exchange sidings. Oakley ...
Mark Poustie 23/09/2006
The site of Oakley station looking towards Dunfermline. The signal box stood on the right here with the down platform straight ahead in the centre. ...
Mark Poustie 23/09/2006
Oakley Station looking towards Alloa. The remains of the demolished down platform are on the left immediately behind the wooden fence. Of the up ...
Mark Poustie 23/09/2006
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This junction was immediately west of Whitemyre Junction. (See Whitemyre Junction for main entry.) At Charlestown Junction a short curve ran south east to the Charlestown Railway. This opened in 1850 to connect the Stirling and Dunfermline Railway to that line. It closed in 1967. Whitemyre Junction was with the West of Fife Mineral Railway, this portion opening in 1858 and ...

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This was a junction in the west of Dunfermline. It was a pair of junctions. The older junction was Charlestown Junction [Whitemyre] which opened between the Stirling and Dunfermline Railway of 1849 and a short branch south east to the Charlestown Railway.
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West of Fife Mineral Railway
Looking west from Lundin Road bridge, a little to the west of the the former Whitemyre Junction, along the Stirling & Dunfermline Railway. With the ...
Bill Roberton //1985
Looking west along the trackbed of the Stirling - Dunfermline line at the former Whitemyre Junction, where the West of Fife Mineral Railway branched ...
Bill Roberton 27/06/2008
Dunfermline, Whitemyre Junction looking west. The West of Fife Mineral Railway diverged to the right here, its formation lies directly behind the ...
Mark Poustie 23/09/2006
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This is a disused double track nine arch viaduct over the defile of the Tower Burn. The eastern arch crosses over Bruce Street.
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Tower Burn Viaduct looking west in 1989, not long after track lifting. ...
Ewan Crawford //1989
A grey December morning in Dunfermline, with a BRCW Type 2 climbing towards the Upper station. ...
Brian Haslehust 01/12/1963
The eastern extent of the surviving section of Tower Burn Viaduct, Dunfermline, which now terminates alongside Winterthur Lane. View is north on 31 ...
Andy Furnevel 31/08/2019
Looking east along Buffie's Brae, Dunfermline, in August 2019, showing part of the surviving section of the viaduct that once carried the S&D just ...
Andy Furnevel 31/08/2019
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This was a station with two main through platforms, the north of which was an island with a second face. At the west end was a bay on the south side.
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Dunfermline Branch (Edinburgh and Northern Railway)
The well preserved, though somewhat battered, building and canopy on the westbound platform at Dunfermline Upper in 1989. ...
Ewan Crawford //1989
Stirling and Dunfermline line now a walkway east of Dunfermline Upper. This view looks east to Touch North Junction. ...
John Yellowlees 10/03/2017
View west over the site of Dunfermline Upper station on a wet 31 August 2019 - with one or two changes having taken place over the past 30 years or ...
Andy Furnevel 31/08/2019
Looking east over Dunfermline Upper Station in December 1973, looking largely intact. ...
Bill Roberton /12/1973
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Tillicoultry Branch

Passenger and goods line from Alloa East Junction to Tillicoultry.

This junction was at the east end of Alloa [1st] station and was formed, in 1851, between the 1850 Dunfermline [2nd] to Alloa [1st] main line alignment of the Stirling and Dunfermline Railway and its 1851 branch to Tillicoultry.
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Looking south west, back towards the site of the old Alloa station in January 2007 along the trackbed of the Devon Valley line. The embankment on the ...
John Furnevel 23/01/2007
Grab shot from the brake van of a class 20-hauled freight approaching Alloa East box in the early summer of 1973. The freight is about to trundle ...
David Spaven //1973
Approaching Alloa east junction in 1973 on a railtour. ...
Bill Roberton //1973
Alloa looking east over the former junction between the Devon Valley line (left, lifted) and Dunfermline line (not lifted). This was the east end of ...
Ewan Crawford //1988
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This coal siding led off the Alloa Station Goods's goods loops on the north side of Alloa East Junction. It was to the north east, parallel to the Tillicoultry branch.
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These centralised workshops were opened in 1954 to replace older works. The site included a workshops building, central stores and a central garage.
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This signal box was a short distance north of Alloa [1st] on the branch to Tillicoultry. It controlled access to the Sauchie Colliery mineral line which ran east to Alloa Colliery Jellyholm Pit and Sherriffyards Colliery.
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This level crossing east between Sauchie Colliery Signal Box (to the south) and Sauchie station. There was a crossing keeper's cottage on the west side of the line, north of the level crossing. The crossing was on the access road from Whiteyett to Auchinbaird Farm.
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This was a small two platform station. To the north was Auchinbaird Siding, a reversing spur for the pits at Sauchie. ...

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This siding was a reversing spur on the east side of the line which gave access to pits at Sauchie. It was located just north of Sauchie station and was retained after closure of the pits. ...

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The route of the former Devon Valley Railway, looking south from the road bridge at Fishcross, Clackmannanshire, following a shower of rain in ...
John Furnevel 28/02/2008
Looking north along the Devon Valley trackbed towards the Ochil Hills on 28 February 2008 from the site of Auchinbaird Siding. The siding acted as a ...
John Furnevel 28/02/2008
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This signal box was on the west side of the double track line between Alloa [1st] and Tillicoultry. Just to the south was Sauchie station.
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Glenfoot was a very short lived terminus used to open the line from Alloa before the Tillicoultry Viaduct was completed. The station was south west of the viaduct. ...

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This double track lattice viaduct was west of Tillicoultry.
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View southeast along the River Devon in April 2005 showing the remaining piers of Glenfoot Viaduct that once carried the Devon Valley line between ...
John Furnevel 28/04/2005
Looking north towards the Ochil Hills west of Tillicoultry on a misty morning in the autumn of 1971. A Clayton Type 1 locomotive is crossing Glenfoot ...
John Furnevel 07/10/1971
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This station was originally a terminus and later a through station. It was located on the west side of a level crossing over Moss Road to the south of Tillicoultry. It was rebuilt at least three times.
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Devon Valley Railway
Tillicoultry 1,2 Colliery Line (Alloa Coal Company)
No trains, no track. Looking west along the trackbed of the former Devon Valley Railway towards Tillicoultry, approximately mid way from Dollar. The ...
John McIntyre 25/11/2018
Site of the station looking west. ...
Ewan Crawford 03/10/2006
Notice near the former Tillicoultry LC - March 2007. ...
Bill Roberton /03/2007
View east across the A908 Moss Road, Tillicoultry, on 6 March 2008 from a point between the platforms of the late Tillicoultry station (behind ...
John Furnevel 06/03/2008
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Alloa Harbour Branch

Passenger (briefly) and goods branch to Alloa Harbour from Alloa Harbour Junction, just west of Alloa [1st] station.

This double track junction was to the west of Alloa [1st] station on the Stirling and Dunfermline Railway. Access to the harbour branch was from the east.
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This was the junction for the harbour looking west. The harbour line was to the left but the line being re-opened is straight ahead. ...
Ewan Crawford 12/11/2006
Deltic 55022 Royal Scots Grey at the rear of one of the Alloa Reopening specials leaving Alloa for Stirling on 15 May 2008. ...
Bill Roberton 15/05/2008
Alloa, 250107. Tracklaying progress to the west of the old station site. ...
Bill Roberton 25/01/2007
East portal of the Alloa Harbour Tunnel. This branch served the short-lived original terminus of the line at Alloa Ferry, prior to completion of the ...
Ewan Crawford 05/01/2008
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This goods yard was on the Alloa Harbour branch. The yard was on the north side of the Alloa Harbour Junction to Alloa Wet Dock fork of the harbour branch.
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The roadway, Glasshouse Loan, was once the approach to Alloa Harbour and the North British's goods yard from Alloa station. The Caledonian's goods ...
Ewan Crawford 29/03/1997
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This was a goods yard on the short branch from Alloa Harbour Junction and was north of the short lived Alloa Ferry station.
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The BLS 'Forth Fife Railtour' on the Alloa Harbour branch on 28 August 1976. View is north, looking back towards Bedford Place, with the Glasshouse ...
Bill Roberton 28/08/1976
The BLS 'Forth Fife Railtour' stands in front of Alloa glassworks on 28 August 1976. The works stood alongside the branch which left the current main ...
Bill Roberton 28/08/1976
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This was a short lived passenger station on the north bank of the River Forth. It was just east of the original part of the Alloa Glass Works.
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Charlestown Railway Curve

This junction was immediately west of Whitemyre Junction. (See Whitemyre Junction for main entry.) At Charlestown Junction a short curve ran south east to the Charlestown Railway. This opened in 1850 to connect the Stirling and Dunfermline Railway to that line. It closed in 1967. Whitemyre Junction was with the West of Fife Mineral Railway, this portion opening in 1858 and ...

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