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Dist:0.5km<br/>Although south of the A905, these are probably connected with the Royal Navy Depot at Throsk. One is used as a wheelybin store.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.5km<br/>Whilst most land here is arable, there still is some livestock. Bull grazing on spring growth.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.6km<br/>Flat arable land beside the Forth.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.6km<br/>This redundant bend on the A905 has been left as a parking area. Usually these old bends are blocked off.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.7km<br/>Woodland beside the Forth.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.7km<br/>A steep wooded bank falls to a tidal inlet off the Forth. A 6m spring tide has flooded the tributary burn.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.7km<br/>In woods beside the Forth, here there is an embankment a little like an old railway. Beyond the bank is the river and it is at high water.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.7km<br/>It used to carry trains across the river Forth. [[245180]]
©Paul McIlroy
Dist:0.8km<br/>Arable land, a very flat square.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.8km<br/>Remains of a disused railway bridge across the Forth.
©Gerald England
Dist:0.8km<br/>A view of the west side of a disused railway bridge on the river Forth.[[245180]]
©Paul McIlroy
Dist:0.9km<br/>Flat arable land beside the Forth contrasts with the Ochil escarpment.
©Richard Webb
Dist:1.0km<br/>A section of roadway with railway tracks still in place.
©Richard Webb
Dist:1.0km<br/>The railway between Throsk and Alloa was authorised in 1879 as a branch from the Caledonian Railway's South Alloa branch, the CR absorbed the line in 1884 and it was closed from 6 May 1968. The photograph is from the middle of the river, we are passing through where the swing span was, and shows the southern part of the bridge. This bridge, until the opening of the Forth Bridge at Queensferry, was the most downstream bridge on the Forth. Latterly it was a somewhat rickety affair with a 10mph speed restriction and was used by a shuttle service between Larbert and Alloa operated by a 4 wheel diesel railbus although, in earlier years, there had been through Glasgow - Perth services via the Devon Valley. The bridge, by the way, is not shown on the OS 1/50000 map (!) but is on the Admiralty Charts, fortunately.
©Gareth Foster
Dist:1.0km north<br/>Opposite side of the Forth to Alloa, now obviously derelict as sections of the fence have fallen down. This establishment had its own pier and railway.
©Gareth Foster

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