Galashiels
Location type
StationName and dates
Galashiels (2015-)Station code: GAL National Rail ScotRail
Where: Scottish Borders, Scotland
Opened on the Borders Railway (Network Rail).
Opened on the Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway).
Description
The new Galashiels station has a single platform on a single track line.
There are few facilities on platform, but, across the A7, via a pedestrian crossing, is the new Transport Interchange for onward connections by bus. It also has rest facilities.
The new station is to the north of the original Galashiels [1st] station. This was formerly the double track approach to the north of the station. with the loss of the original station site this cramped location was used instead.
On the north east side of the line is the immense retaining wall built to hold back higher ground.
West of the station is the Ladhope Tunnel.
From the east end of the platform, looking north, a recess in the low retaining wall can be seen - this was the location of a headshunt for the sidings on the east side of Galashiels [1st] station which was removed during the re-signalling of 1937.
To the north the next station is Stow and to the south Tweedbank. Historically, the next station north was Bowland (closer than Stow) and to the south the next was Melrose (further than Tweedbank).
The line is supported and promoted by the Borders Railway Community Rail Partnership .
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StationExternal links
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
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NLS Map
| Nearby stations Galashiels [1st] Abbotsford Ferry [2nd] Abbotsford Ferry [1st] Tweedbank Clovenfords Lindean Bowland Melrose Angling Club Cottage Newstead [Melrose] Thornielee Selkirk Earlston Stow St Boswells | Paterson^s No 1 Siding Ladhope Tunnel Paterson^s No 2 Siding Galashiels Goods Comelybank Works Galashiels Shed Skin Works Siding Galabank Mill Comelybank Mill Gala Mill Bridge No 95 Kilnknowe Junction Wheatlands Mill Tourist/other Galashiels North Signal Box Galashiels South Signal Box |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 01/07/1862 | Border Union Railway (North British Railway) The line from Edinburgh Waverley to Carlisle Citadel via Galashiels and Hawick [2nd] is completed. The line opened from Hawick [2nd] to Scotch Dyke. Stations opened at Hawick [2nd], Barnes, Shankend, Riccarton, Steele Road, Newcastleton, Kershope Foot, Penton, Riddings Junction (and Canonbie on the incomplete Langholm branch). (Alternative date 01/08/1862.) |
| 10/09/1951 | Selkirk and Galashiels Railway Selkirk to Galashiels (Selkirk Junction) closed to passengers. |
| 06/09/2015 | Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway)Millerhill Deviation (Network Rail) Newcraighall North Junction to Tweedbank opened to passengers with stations at Shawfair, Eskbank, Newtongrange, Gorebridge, Stow, Galashiels and Tweedbank. Newcraighall Junction renamed Newcraighall North Junction. |
