Alloa Railway

The Alloa Railway was a short Scottish line intended to carry traffic across the River Forth to Alloa without the use of a ferry. It was authorised by the Alloa Railway Act 1879 and ran about three miles from Dunmore Junction on the South Alloa branch of the Caledonian Railway, crossing the river on a swing bridge before ending in the town. The Caledonian Railway supported it financially from the start, agreed to maintain and manage it, and absorbed the company in 1884 before the line was even finished. A connecting line belonging to the North British Railway gave the two companies reciprocal running powers, and the Alloa Swing Bridge, the main engineering work, stayed in use until 1968 and was demolished in 1971.