B9036

Kincardine Road, Carronshore – the former B9036

The B9036 was a short road in southeast Stirlingshire. It was originally unclassified, gaining its number in the early 1920s, and was declassified again in the 1980s after being severed by motorway construction.

The route started at a triangle junction on the B905 in East Carron, now obliterated by the Carron Roundabout, and headed north east along Carronshore Road, passing the start of the B902 and then followed Kincardine Road to Longdyke. Here it crossed the A876 (now the A88) at a crossroads just to the east of where the M9 now crosses. The construction of the motorway initially led to a roundabout installed here as a temporary terminus, which survived from 1968 until 1980. However, rather than connecting the southern approach of the B9036 into the roundabout, it was diverted slightly to the west along a pre-existing lane which appears to have been upgarded for the purpose, and is still followed by Kincardine Road.

The onward route northwards was connected to the temporary roundabout, and still survives as Waterslap Road, which has been slightly realigned to cross the bridge over the M876. A sweeping right-hand bend leads it to journey's end on the A905 south of Airth.

The route probably survived until the extension of the motorway in 1980 - it is still shown on the 1976 OS Landranger map - but was subsequently downgraded when the roundabout was removed as there was no longer a motorway junction on the site. The B902 and B905 at the other end of the former B9036 have also had their routes substantially changed since the 1970s, partially in response to the motorways being built, leading to changing traffic flows around the town.