Exploring Kincardine Bridge (and Railway)

Long awaited return to exploring (although I ended up in hospital the following day)

[@billreid6150]

Welcome back! Really interesting vid well put together. Particularly liked the stills at the bridge with the audio running. More!, more!

[@johnrae4633]

At 17.37 in the video there's a shot of the maker's stamp from the base of one of the lighting posts at the side of the road approaches to the Kincardine Bridge, this shows that these lighting pillars were made by the Lion Foundry in Kirkintilloch. This same company was one of the handful of companies who made much of the traditional red Phone Boxes for the GPO (General Post Office), and the red Post Boxes for the Royal Mail! These red phone and mailboxes were also exported throughout the British Empire! The Lion Foundry shut down about 40-45 years ago.

[@johnrae4633]

The Railway section of the vlog. Where the vlog shows the railway on the Alloa side of Kincardine, there used to be a dedicated electricity power station which provided power to the now long gone Gestetner Papermill; this power station closed when the paper mill closed, and was subsequently demolished. Gestetner made specialist glossy coated paper. All that remains of the papermill these days is the groundworks around the complex. The papermill was also served by a direct spur to the main rail network that you see in the vlog. Whilst the vlog discussed the railway going to Alloa and beyond, there was also a link to the now closed coal mine that's now known as Castlebridge Industrial Park, which also supplied Longannet Power Station adjacent to the A977.