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Borthwick Bank Signalbox
All photographs of this location in date order.
![Climbing Borthwick Bank on an Edinburgh-Carlisle train on 23rd February 1963, one of the first trains to run over the entire Waverley Route after an 18-day snow blockage of the line south of Hawick. [See image 52638].<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) 23/02/1963]](/images/52000/52639.jpg "Borthwick Bank Signalbox")
![All signals off at Falahill on 23rd February 1963, seen from one of the first trains to run over the entire Waverley Route after an 18-day snow blockage of the line south of Hawick.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) 23/02/1963]](/images/52000/52640.jpg "Borthwick Bank Signalbox")
![The abandoned signal box at Borthwick Bank on the Waverley Route, a short time after closure in July 1968.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //1968]](/images/24000/24002.jpg "Borthwick Bank Signalbox")
![View looking south at Borthwick Bank.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1997]](/images/0/364.jpg "Borthwick Bank Signalbox")
![The remains of the distant signalpost for Borthwick Bank Signalbox in a view looking towards Edinburgh in 2002. 13 years on, it's a bit different here now.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //2002]](/images/53000/53200.jpg "Borthwick Bank Signalbox")
![Looking north to where the Waverley route passes near to Borthwick Castle in March 2007 as the line continues toward the summit at Falahill.<br><br>[James Young 14/03/2007]](/images/24000/24215.jpg "Borthwick Bank Signalbox")
![Maggie Bowies Glen on the Waverley Route, looking southeast from a viewpoint near the top of Borthwick Bank in May 2008. From here the trackbed takes a wide sweep round to the right, heading in the general direction of Tynehead Station.<br><br>[Mark Poustie 05/05/2008]](/images/19000/19398.jpg "Borthwick Bank Signalbox")
![View north across the Waverley Route solum on 26th October towards Borthwick Bank signal box (beside the horses in the middle distance) and the Pentlands beyond. The wide grassy area in the right foreground is the remains of the 'reclaimed' land which formed the rail access to Borthwick Bank tip, which stretched away to the right.<br><br>[David Spaven 26/10/2012]](/images/40000/40919.jpg "Borthwick Bank Signalbox")
![On 26th October, Railscot contributor Bill Jamieson looks over the remains of Borthwick Bank signal box, which closed in July 1968 - the same month that Transport Minister Richard Marsh announced his consent for closure of the entire Waverley Route. At this point the solum was three tracks wide, comprising the double-track main line plus the headshunt for Borthwick Bank tip (located behind the camera).<br><br>[David Spaven 26/10/2012]](/images/40000/40999.jpg "Borthwick Bank Signalbox")
![View south to Borthwick Bank on 16 February 2013. An access point has now been established here.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 16/02/2013]](/images/42000/42107.jpg "Borthwick Bank Signalbox")
![View south towards Borthwick Bank on 14 September 2013. [See image 42107]<br><br>[Bill Roberton 14/09/2013]](/images/44000/44591.jpg "Borthwick Bank Signalbox")
![Sunday morning on Borthwick Bank. View north towards Fushiebridge on 1 December 2013.<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/12/2013]](/images/45000/45469.jpg "Borthwick Bank Signalbox")
![The view south at Borthwick Bank on Sunday 1 December 2013, with the Waverley formation curving to the right towards Tynehead. The amount of earth moving involved here can be ascertained from the size of the mound in the background being scaled by the tipper truck. <br><br>[John Furnevel 01/12/2013]](/images/45000/45481.jpg "Borthwick Bank Signalbox")
![<I>Bring your own wellies!</I> View north along the Waverley trackbed at Borthwick on 1 December 2013.<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/12/2013]](/images/45000/45527.jpg "Borthwick Bank Signalbox")
![Scene at Borthwick Bank on 13 March 2014 looking north towards Fushiebridge. For the view seven years earlier [see image 24215].<br><br>[John Furnevel 13/03/2014]](/images/46000/46665.jpg "Borthwick Bank Signalbox")
![<I>Stone me!</I> The cutting at Borthwick Bank on 20 April 2014, looking north towards Fushiebridge. <br><br>[John Furnevel 20/04/2014]](/images/47000/47089.jpg "Borthwick Bank Signalbox")
![View north at Borthwick Bank on 27 October with the Up line now laid. [See image 24215]<br><br>[Bill Roberton 27/10/2014]](/images/49000/49215.jpg "Borthwick Bank Signalbox")
![View south at Borthwick Bank on 27 October with the Up line laid.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 27/10/2014]](/images/49000/49265.jpg "Borthwick Bank Signalbox")
![GBRf 66733 and 66739 with the rail train laying the down line on Borthwick Bank on 3 November 2014.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 03/11/2014]](/images/49000/49305.jpg "Borthwick Bank Signalbox")
![66605 leads a ballast train down Borthwick Bank on 3 November with Borthwick Castle in the background. <br><br>[Bill Roberton 03/11/2014]](/images/49000/49323.jpg "Borthwick Bank Signalbox")
![Looking north towards Gorebridge on a wet and windswept 6 November 2014. Freightliner 66605 stands on Borthwick Bank with a ballast train.<br><br>[David Spaven 06/11/2014]](/images/49000/49351.jpg "Borthwick Bank Signalbox")
![Views north and south on Borthwick Bank during a wet and windswept 6th November 2014. [See Image 40919]. The view south in particular brings to mind AJ Mullay's description of the Waverley Route's <I>'serpentine succession of curves'</I>.<br><br>[David Spaven 06/11/2014]](/images/49000/49387.jpg "Borthwick Bank Signalbox")
![View from the tail of the 16th September steam special – block-booked by CBR members, supporters, families and friends – climbing Borthwick Bank close to where the photographer’s father captured a snow-bound scene in February 1963 [see image 52639].<br><br>[David Spaven 16/09/2015]](/images/52000/52638.jpg "Borthwick Bank Signalbox")
![D9009 Alycidon storms the 1 in 70 Borthwick Bank with a Derby-Tweedbank charter on 9th April – the first Deltic to be seen here since D9007 Pinza on the return leg of a Leeds-Edinburgh charter on Sunday 5th January 1969.<br><br>[David Spaven 09/04/2016]](/images/55000/55042.jpg "Borthwick Bank Signalbox")
![Two plus twelve on the 9th April Derby-Tweedbank charter on Borthwick Bank. In 2012, after years of lobbying by the Campaign for Borders Rail and the Waverley Route Trust, the Scottish Government announced in November that the platform roads and platforms at Tweedbank would be extended beyond 6-car ScotRail capability to handle charters such as this.<br><br>[David Spaven 09/04/2016]](/images/55000/55147.jpg "Borthwick Bank Signalbox")
![The 11-coach SRPS Railtour from Linlithgow to Tweedbank battles up<br>
Borthwick Bank. Note the old platelayers' hut which has survived through<br>
being located in a private field, rather than within the new railway<br>
footprint where it would have been swept away indiscriminately during<br>
construction works. The field formerly housed extensive sidings for the<br>
dumping of ash from St Margaret's shed.<br><br>[David Spaven 20/08/2017]](/images/60000/60744.jpg "Borthwick Bank Signalbox")
![The SRPS Railtour from Linlithgow to Tweedbank battles up Borthwick<br>
Bank, with both locos working hard - 44871 at the front and 37 685 at the<br>
rear.<br><br>[David Spaven 20/08/2017]](/images/60000/60762.jpg "Borthwick Bank Signalbox")
![Formed of a 6-car Class 170, the 11.45 Tweedbank-Edinburgh service<br>
coasts down Borthwick Bank past the southbound SRPS Railtour.<br><br>[David Spaven 20/08/2017]](/images/60000/60797.jpg "Borthwick Bank Signalbox")
![37 685 pushes from the rear of the SRPS Railtour on the approach to<br>
Tynehead. This was the first time the photographer had ever witnessed a<br>
Class 37 on the Waverley Route / Borders Railway, as most of his travel on<br>
the line was from 1961 to 1966, prior to the introduction of EE Types 3s. It<br>
was worth the 50-plus year wait for the sight and sound!<br><br>[David Spaven 20/08/2017]](/images/60000/60808.jpg "Borthwick Bank Signalbox")
![Author Sandy Mullay's description of a 'sinuous succession of curves'<br>
comes to mind in this long shot of the SRPS Railtour passing through the<br>
distinctive deep stone cutting at the south end of Borthwick Bank.<br><br>[David Spaven 20/08/2017]](/images/60000/60825.jpg "Borthwick Bank Signalbox")
![Deep in the woods to the east of Borthwick Bank lurk a remarkable<br>
number of survivors of the former ash dump sidings - in this case a 1900 NBR<br>
chair.<br><br>[David Spaven 20/08/2017]](/images/60000/60836.jpg "Borthwick Bank Signalbox")
