A double-track three-span viaduct which comprises the westernmost of a pair of similar, but not identical, railway bridges that cross the River Forth a quarter-mile (0.5 km) north northeast of the centre of Stirling. It comprises a riveted steel truss bridge supported by masonry piers, with modest masonry arches within the abutments at either end of the structure and decorative castellations.
Built by the Caledonian Railway Company to carry their line from Stirling to Perth, this was the work of Donald Matheson in 1906. It replaced an earlier bridge comprising a wooden deck on stone piers built by the Scottish Central Railway c. 1848. This had been rebuilt as a more substantial structure in 1868. Today it is used by trains on the Glasgow-Perth Line and the Edinburgh-Dunblane Line.
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