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.
/ /1810 | Alloa Brewery Founded. The brewery was served by a siding from the east end of Alloa station on the Stirling and Dunfermline Railway. |
/ /1846 | Stirling and Dunfermline Railway Line authorised. |
/ /1849 | Stirling and Dunfermline Railway Junction with the Scottish Central Railway authorised north of the River Forth. |
28/08/1850 | Stirling and Dunfermline RailwayForth Iron Works Railway 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. A connection to the Forth Iron Works Railway was made at Oakley. |
03/06/1851 | Stirling and Dunfermline Railway Opened a branch from Alloa [1st] to temporary terminus at Glenfoot, near Tillicoultry. |
01/07/1852 | Stirling and Dunfermline Railway Opened from Alloa to Stirling. |
01/07/1853 | Stirling and Dunfermline Railway Stirling Forth Viaduct [SandD] at Stirling opened alongside the Scottish Central Railway's bridge, to run south to Stirling East station. |
12/09/1853 | Scottish 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. |
/ /1854 | Sauchie Waggonway Closed, due to Stirling and Dunfermline Railway's branch from Alloa to Tillicoultry being opened. |
/ /1865 | Stirling and Dunfermline Railway Two road locomotive shed opened at Alloa Shed. |
/ /1870 | Carron Iron Works Blairhall Colliery sunk. This was served by the Stirling and Dunfermline Railway. Sold to Lochgelly Iron Company who then sold it to the Coltness Iron Company. |
/ /1889 | Scottish 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. |
/ /1891 | Scottish 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. |
/ /1899 | Scottish 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 |
21/07/1912 | Stirling and Dunfermline Railway Blairhall signalbox opened. (New shafts at Blairhall Colliery sunk in 1906). |
01/12/1921 | Stirling and Dunfermline Railway Clackmannan Road station closed |
09/03/1925 | Stirling and Dunfermline Railway Oakley renamed Oakley (Fife). |
22/09/1930 | Stirling and Dunfermline Railway Sauchie station closed. |
25/07/1935 | Comrie Colliery First sod cut for modern coal mine by the Fife Coal Company. 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. |
/ /1950 | Stirling and Dunfermline Railway Stirling shed renamed Shore Road Shed [NB]. |
11/09/1954 | Stirling and Dunfermline Railway New marshalling proposed to the west of Alloa, Alloa Marshalling Yard. |
04/07/1955 | Stirling and Dunfermline Railway Causewayhead station closed |
16/09/1957 | Stirling and Dunfermline Railway Shore Road Shed [NB] closed, locomotives transferred to Stirling South Shed. |
13/09/1958 | Stirling and Dunfermline Railway Bogside Fife and East Grange stations closed. |
19/01/1967 | Stirling and Dunfermline Railway Alloa Shed closed. |
06/05/1968 | Stirling and Dunfermline Railway Dunfermline; Townhill Junction to Touch North Junction closed to passengers. |
07/10/1968 | Stirling and Dunfermline Railway Stirling to Alloa [1st] to Dunfermline Lower (Touch South Junction) closed to passengers. |
18/06/1972 | Stirling and Dunfermline Railway Blairhall signal box closed and ground frame now released from Oakley. Blairhill Colliery closed in 1969. |
/03/1977 | Stirling and Dunfermline Railway Alloa Harbour branch closed. |
/06/1978 | Stirling and Dunfermline Railway Alloa New Yard (excluded) to Longcarse Junction (reverse) to Alloa West Goods coal yard closed. |
/06/1979 | Stirling and Dunfermline Railway Kincardine Junction to Oakley (junction for Comrie Colliery) closed. |
/07/1979 | Stirling and Dunfermline Railway Kincardine Junction (excluded) to Oakley (excluded) closed. Signalling removed at the former Alloa station and Alloa Co-op Siding and the line from Kincardine Junction run as two parallel single tracks from Alloa to Alloa West Junction. |
06/10/1979 | Stirling and Dunfermline Railway Kincardine Junction to Oakley closed. |
/02/1980 | Stirling 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. |
/ /1985 | Stirling 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. |
/ /1985 | Stirling and Dunfermline Railway Alloa co-op Siding to Alloa West Junction (excluded) closed. Line lifted from Alloa Co-op Siding to Alloa West Junction. |
20/12/1987 | Stirling 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). |
/ /1988 | Stirling and Dunfermline Railway Last locomotive to run east to Alloa West Junction allowed by relaying track panel at Cambus. Afterwards the panel removed again. |
/ /1989 | Stirling and Dunfermline Railway Derelict Alloa New Yard lifted. The main line, longer disused, is left in place. |
/ /1994 | Alva Railway
Stirling and Dunfermline Railway Stirling to Cambus and Menstrie (Glenochil Yeast) closed completely. The end nearest Stirling saw occasional use by tampers. |
19/05/2008 | Stirling and Dunfermline RailwayKincardine Line 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. |
This line is divided into a number of portions.
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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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. ...
More detailsThis 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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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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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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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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This level crossing is at Waterside, just east of the former Causewayhead station on the line between Stirling and Alloa.
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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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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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This junction was directly 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
More detailsThis 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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This was a two platform station on a double track railway.
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This siding was on the north side of the line, accessed from the east between Bogside Fife and Forest Mill. ...
More detailsThis 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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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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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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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 ...
More detailsThis 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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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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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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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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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 was a small two platform station. To the north was Auchinbaird Siding, a reversing spur for the pits at Sauchie. ...
More detailsThis 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. ...
More detailsThis 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. ...
More detailsThis double track lattice viaduct was west of Tillicoultry.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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