Alloa Waggonway

Introduction

Latterly a tramway from Devon Colliery Furnacebank Pits 1,2 to Alloa Wet Dock and the Alloa Glass Works. The tramway crossed the railway immediately east of Alloa [1st] station (ie west of the present Alloa station). It was one of Scotland's oldest tramways.




Dates

  /  /1766Alloa Waggonway
Opened from Alloa collieries and Alloa Glass Works bottle works to Alloa Harbour by John, Earl of Mar. Alternative date 1768.
  /  /1771Alloa Waggonway
Extended to Collyland.
  /  /1785Alloa Waggonway
Wooden track replaced with wood and iron strip.
  /  /1810Alloa Waggonway
Track replaced with cast iron.
  /  /1835Alloa Waggonway
Sold to the Alloa Coal Company.
  /  /1840Alloa Waggonway
Track replaced with malleable iron.
  /  /1940Alloa Waggonway
Last wagon used as a bunker for a harbour crane.

Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.



This tunnel under Drysdale Street and Mar Street carried the Alloa Waggonway between the bridge over the the railway next to Alloa station and the route south via Bedford Place Tunnel to the Alloa Glass Works and harbour, latterly the Alloa Wet Dock.
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View through Drysdale Street Tunnel, Alloa, on 3 July 2008, looking north towards the Station Hotel. The tunnel formed part of the Alloa Waggonway, ...
John Furnevel 03/07/2008
National Transport Trust heritage plaque, commemorating the Alloa Waggonway, unveiled in Alloa on 1st April 2021. ...
John Yellowlees 01/04/2021
The route of the Alloa Waggonway. Photographed in July 2008, looking north east towards the point where it passed below Mar Street and Drysdale ...
John Furnevel 03/07/2008
The stone steps that now provide pedestrian access between the old route of the Alloa Waggonway and the busy Drysdale Street. View is north towards ...
John Furnevel 03/07/2008
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This tunnel under Bedford Place carried the Alloa Waggonway. It is south of Drysdale Street Tunnel. It carried the waggonway south to the Alloa Glass Works and harbour, latterly the Alloa Wet Dock.
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Route of the former Alloa Waggonway in the summer of 2008, approximately halfway along its journey through the town towards the Forth. View is south ...
John Furnevel 02/07/2008
Photograph taken in July 2008 looking north from the ramp linking the route of the Alloa Wagonway with the towns Bedford Place. Down below the old ...
John Furnevel 03/07/2008
Scene in Alloa town centre on 27 March 2008 looking south towards the Forth. Down below is the trackbed of the Alloa Wagonway which has just emerged ...
John Furnevel 27/03/2008
View south from Bedford Place, Alloa, towards the Forth on 3 July 2008 showing the route of the old Wagonway emerging below. Clearance and ...
John Furnevel 03/07/2008
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This glass works opened in 1750. It was service by the Alloa Waggonway which ran from the Sauchie Colliery to Alloa Harbour, opening in 1766.
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