Kelso Branch (North British Railway)
Introduction
This line is closed. This line runs through countryside and small towns. The only towns of any size were at either end of the line, Kelso and St Boswells.
Dates
Portions of line and locations
This line is divided into a number of portions.
St Boswells to Kelso
From Kelso Junction to Kelso. The line was originally double track but was later singled.
This junction was south of St Boswells station, where there was a bay platform for branch trains, and was formed between the Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway)] (1849) and the Kelso Branch (North British Railway) (1850).
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See also
Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway)
Dougie Squance (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) /09/1962
Bruce McCartney 11/04/1967
Bruce McCartney 11/04/1967
Dougie Squance (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //1966
In 1942 the government opened a munitions factory at Charlesfield, near St Boswells.
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Ewan Crawford //1999
Ewan Crawford //1999
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Bruce McCartney 26/11/2017
K A Gray 14/04/1963
This was a two platform station on a double track line. There was a level crossing at the west end. The main station building was at the west end of the eastbound platform. The signal box, dating from 1915, was at the west end of the westbound platform. The village Maxton itself was just to the north, on the south bank of the River Tweed.
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Clive Barlow 25/05/2006
Bruce McCartney 29/03/1968
This was a two platform station until singling of the line. There was a siding for a loading bank on the south side, approached from the west and a second siding on the north side, approached from the east. Both sidings were east of the station. The platforms were staggered, the eastbound being offset a little west of the westbound.
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Dougie Squance (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //
Ewan Crawford //1998
This was a three platform junction station. This was the junction between the Kelso Branch (North British Railway) and the Jedburgh Railway.
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See also
Jedburgh Railway
John Furnevel 13/08/2013
John Furnevel 13/08/2013
K A Gray 14/04/1963
John Yellowlees 07/07/2013
This is a disused 220yd 14 arch double track masonry viaduct of the former Kelso Branch (North British Railway). The railway crossed the River Teviot, about 75 ft below, on a gentle curve. Listed 'A'.
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John Yellowlees 01/08/2022
John Yellowlees 01/08/2022
John Furnevel 13/08/2013
John Furnevel 13/08/2013
This was a set of sidings accessed from a reversing spur on the south side of the line, approached from the west.
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Ewan Crawford 27/12/2016
Ewan Crawford 27/12/2016
This was a temporary terminus while Kelso station was prepared. Nothing remains to be seen.
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Ewan Crawford 27/12/2016
This was a four platform station, two through platforms and a bay at either end. It replaced a temporary terminus at Wallace Nick, just to the west. One bay, on the south side, was for the line to the west and the other, on the north side, was for the east line. The signal box was on the westbound platform with the bay to its south.
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Doug Nicholls /05/1974
Brian Haslehust 19/08/1963
Ewan Crawford 27/12/2016
Bruce McCartney 29/03/1968
This was a three arch double track viaduct to the east of Kelso station. The viaduct crossed the Wooden Burn close to Maxwellhaugh.
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This end-on junction was located at Mellendean. Sprouston station was a short distance to the east and Kelso is to the west.
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See also
Kelso Branch (York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway)
D Welsh Collection [Courtesy Bruce McCartney] //1956
D Welsh Collection [Courtesy Bruce McCartney] 25/03/1947
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