Borders Railway (Network Rail)

Introduction

The Borders Railway is a 2015 re-opening of the Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway) which closed in 1969. The route is near identical except the Millerhill Deviation (Network Rail) between Newcraighall and Sherrifhall and short Galashiels Deviation (Network Rail). Many properties built on the trackbed post closure were compulsorily purchased and demolished and many bridges required replacement or substantial renovation.

The line is supported and promoted by the Borders Railway Community Rail Partnership .






Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.

This is the main station in Edinburgh and acts as both a terminus and through station. The larger part of the station is covered by a large glazed roof by Blyth and Cunningham and is an island platform with bays at either end. There is a smaller island platform outwith the main roof on the south side.
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Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
North British Railway
Edinburgh Waverley 40 April 2017. ...
John Yellowlees 30/04/2017
On 25th July 2020 the 1500 to King^s Cross in charge of an Azuma that is looking patriotic - at this end of the line anyway. It is displaying LNER ...
David Panton 25/07/2020
A stopper from Glasgow Queen Street via Cumbernauld reaches journey^s end at Waverley^s Platform 11 on 16th July 2020. The Scottish National Gallery, ...
David Panton 16/07/2020
A grab shot of the splasher nameplate of the ^Flying Scotsman^ from Waverley^s
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Martin MacGuire 20/05/2018
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This is a single platform station. The platform was erected on the former eastbound line between Portobello East Junction (to the north west) and Niddrie North Junction (to the south).
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Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway)
The 0945 (Sunday) ex-Tweedbank runs into Brunstane station under a harsh autumn sun on 29 October 2017. Unit 170475 brings up the rear of the 6-car ...
John Furnevel 29/10/2017
The ScotRail 1011 Edinburgh - Tweedbank DMU calls at a leafy Brunstane on the first day of July 2018. ...
John Furnevel 01/07/2018
The ScotRail 1024 Edinburgh - Tweedbank leaves Brunstane on its way south on 21 October 2015 (official ^Back to the Future^ day) during the ...
John Furnevel 21/10/2015
A pleasant October morning at Brunstane in 2015. The train about to pull up at the platform is the 1002 ScotRail service to Tweedbank (0955 ...
John Furnevel 21/10/2015
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This is a single platform station located between Niddrie South Junction and Newcraighall North Junction where the Millerhill Deviation (Network Rail) leaves the alignment of the original Waverley Route.
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Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway
A 7-car class 385 combination passes below the bridge carrying the A1 as it approaches Newcraighall station on 22 September 2019. The train is running ...
John Furnevel 22/09/2019
ScotRail 385108 brings up the rear of an empty stock movement from Millerhill Depot passing Newcrighall on its way to Waverley to commence duty on the ...
John Furnevel 22/09/2019
A green light for the 0845 Tweedbank - Edinburgh, about to restart from Newcraighall station on 17 June 2018. The train will head north before making ...
John Furnevel 17/06/2018
A sunny summer morning at Newcraighall on 1 July 2018 as a ScotRail service for Tweedbank arrives at the platform. ...
John Furnevel 01/07/2018
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This is a two platform station on the Millerhill Deviation (Network Rail), a new section of line required for the re-opening of the railway between Edinburgh (Newcraighall) and Tweedbank, south of Galashiels.
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Millerhill Deviation (Network Rail)
A Tweedbank service calls at Shawfair on 19 February 2020. Nobody got on or off but this is not unusual, during the day anyway. So much for 3 cars as ...
David Panton 19/02/2020
An Edinburgh service approaches Shawfair on 24 April 2019. I don^t know what happened to the Class-170s-as-standard, promised months ago. In the ...
David Panton 24/04/2019
The 0911 (Sunday) Edinburgh - Tweedbank leaving Shawfair on 15 April 2018, while on the other side of the footbridge the 0845 Tweedbank - Edinburgh ...
John Furnevel 15/04/2018
A Borders Railway service heads south from Shawfair on 6 July. The isolation is obvious. The first houses in the Shawfair development will be ready ...
David Panton 06/07/2018
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This is a single platform station.
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Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway
A Sunday morning ScotRail service picks up at Eskbank on 14 May 2017 on its way to Waverley. ...
John Furnevel 14/05/2017
ScotRail 170471+158724 running to time on the northern approach to Eskbank station on 28 April 2019. The train is the Sunday morning 1011 Edinburgh ...
John Furnevel 28/04/2019
The 5-car 1011 Edinburgh Waverley - Tweedbank pulls away from the platform at Eskbank on 28 April 2019. The curve onto Hardengreen Viaduct is just ...
John Furnevel 28/04/2019
170 414 bringing the message of the Borders Railway to, well, the Borders Railway at Eskbank on 13/03/2017. Being a fair bit south of the old Eskbank ...
David Panton 13/03/2017
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This is a single platform station to the south of the original Newtongrange [1st] station.
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Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway)
The 0911 Edinburgh Waverley - Tweedbank emerges from below the A7 to arrive at the platform of a very quiet Newtongrange station on Sunday 12 July ...
John Furnevel 12/07/2020
View north towards Newtongrange station on 9 July 2017 with the ScotRail 1011 (Sundays) Edinburgh Waverley - Tweedbank alongside the platform. ...
John Furnevel 09/07/2017
ScotRail 158740 seen shortly after leaving Newtongrange on 9 July 2017 with the 1011 Edinburgh - Tweedbank. The photograph is taken from the area on ...
John Furnevel 09/07/2017
A Tweedbank to Edinburgh service enters Nitt^n on 19 June. Plenty of room for a second track here. Just saying. ...
David Panton 20/06/2018
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This is a single platform station on the Borders Railway. The original two storey station building remains standing. The platform occupies roughly the location of the original northbound platform. A similar building remains at Fountainhall.
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Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway)
ScotRail DMU 170401, forming the 0847 Tweedbank - Edinburgh, restarts from Gorebridge on Sunday 12 July 2020. The train is about to pass below the ...
John Furnevel 12/07/2020
A Tweedbank service calls at a pleasantly set and well-maintained Gorebridge station on 12 September 2018. ...
David Panton 12/09/2018
A 6-car DMU comprising 170452 + 170432 forming the 0945 (Sunday) Tweedbank - Edinburgh climbs north away from Gorebridge on 21 July 2019. ...
John Furnevel 21/07/2019
DMU 170403 does its bit for global warming as it powers north away from Gorebridge station on the climb towards the Gore Glen Bridge on 27 December ...
John Furnevel 27/12/2018
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This is a two platform station re-opened on the site of the original. The station building remains standing here, waiting for a new use.
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Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway)
Former station building at Stow, closed with the entire Waverley Route in January 1969, seen here on Sunday, 15th May 2016. The station reopened as ...
David Bosher 15/05/2016
158871 disturbs the peace at Stow with a Tweedbank service on 31st May 2017. ...
David Panton 31/05/2017
Stow station, closed with the entire Waverley Route in 1969, reopened for the Borders Line in 2015, seen here on Sunday, 15th May 2016. Sadly, the ...
David Bosher 15/05/2016
158734 on the 1209 service from Edinburgh to Galashiels about to depart from Stow on 5th January 2019. ...
Colin McDonald 05/01/2019
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The new Galashiels station has a single platform on a single track line.
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Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway)
Galashiels 27 August 2017. ...
John Yellowlees 27/08/2017
170404, on a service from Edinburgh Waverley to Tweedbank, departing from Galashiels station on 27th February 2018 ...
David Bosher 27/02/2018
A ScotRail 158 about to pass south below Station Brae, Galashiels, on 9 October 2015. The Edinburgh - Tweedbank service is just 2 miles from its ...
John Furnevel 09/10/2015
An early afternoon service from Edinburgh pulls away from the platform at Galashiels on 9 November 2017 on its way to Tweedbank. ...
John Furnevel 09/11/2017
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This is a terminus with two platforms on either side of an island and a large carpark. It is just north of A6091. The station is in the eastern extremity of Galashiels, being separated from the town by the River Tweed, and is just over a mile west of Melrose.
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Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway)
Black Five 44871 at Tweedbank, with an SRPS excursion from Linlithgow via Fife on 4th August 2019. She will be dragged back to Niddire West Junction ...
Mark Poustie 04/08/2019
The spare set at Tweedbank^s Platform 2 has been pressed into service as the incoming train to the usual Platform 1 had been cancelled. This was to be ...
David Panton 20/03/2019
SRPS Railtour at Tweedbank on 18th August 2019. ...
John Yellowlees 18/08/2019
I took a Flat Rate ticket to Tweedbank on 5th January 2019, got off at Galashiels and walked down to Tweedbank, only to find the 13:01 back to ...
Duncan Ross 05/01/2019
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