B905

The B905 today is a short link to the north of Falkirk.

Route

The western end of the B905

The route starts at the eastern roundabout of the M876 J1 where it meets the A8004 and A883. After crossing the River Carron on Dunipace Bridge it comes to a T junction where it turns sharply right. The left turn leads to the westbound M876 offslip, and has in the past been variously numbered as the B905 or A8004, but now seems to be rather bizarrely unclassified. After a short run along the north bank of the river, the route then kinks left to cut off a large meander of the river and heads east to Larbert, entering on Denny Road. The A9 is crossed at traffic lights next to Larbert Old Church, with the B905 continuing ahead along Main Street past the shops.

The railway line is crossed at Larbert Station, but the B905 continues to follow Main Street, now mostly residential, into Stenhousemuir. Here, at traffic lights, Main Street forks right while the B905 continues ahead onto King Street which passes to the north of the town centre. As King Street slowly curves to the north east, it returns to a primarily residential route, mostly comprising unispiring mid 20th Century houses and flats. An area of open parkland is crossed where Alloa Road turns right and then the B905 continues on what is a fairly modern link road to end on the B902 at the Roughlands Roundabout.

History

The B905 in 1923

The original route of the B905 started on the A9 in Larbert and headed east, forking right along Main Street and Stenhouse Road to the modern B902, which is the old B905 into the centre of Falkirk. The section along King Street in Stenhousemuir was originally unclassified, but had become part of the B902 by 1932. Eventually – but not before the mid 1970s – things changed at the eastern end of the road, with the B902 and B905 swapping routes for much of the distance.

The section of the B905 west of the A9 was originally the B817; this became part of the A876 in the mid 1950s and was renumbered again as the B905 after the A876 was extended to the North Broomage Roundabout in the early 1960s.

The 1922 MOT Road List defines this route as: Falkirk - Carron - Larbert