Grantshouse
Location type
StationNames and dates
Grant's House (1846-1915)Grantshouse (1915-1964)
Station code: National Rail
Opened on the North British Railway.
Description
This was a two platform station immediately south of the small village of Grant's House.
Today there are loops on either side of the line with two engineers' s siding at the east end of the southbound loop.
The sidings are located on the site of the former station buildings on the southbound platform. The main station building, typical of the line, was a single storey building in stone. The building was badly damaged by a runaway locomotive in 1961. There was a timber shelter on the northbound platform.
There was a goods yard at the west end of the station, reached by a reversing spur from the southbound line. The yard had a goods shed at the west end of the southbound platform. A further siding was to the south of the station, also reached by reversal this time from the northbound line. To the east of the station, on the north side of the line, was a large water tank.
The box here was replaced in 1918 and closed in 1978, replaced by the Edinburgh Signalling Centre.
Penmanshiel Tunnel was to the west. Brockholes Bridge is to the east. This bridge was washed away in the severe floods of 1948 which closed the railway. Further flood damage brought tonnes of material onto the line immediately east of Grantshouse station.
Tags
StationExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
NLS Map
| Nearby stations Cockburnspath Reston [1st] Reston Chirnside Edrom Innerwick Crumstane Duns Ayton Eyemouth Burnmouth Marchmont Dunbar Norham Velvet Hall | Brockholes Bridge Renton Siding Penmanshiel Tunnel Free Kirk Bridge Houndwood Siding Pease Lye Siccar Point Cockburnspath Mail Apparatus Reston Goods Auchencraw Siding Dunglass Viaduct Tourist/other Penmanshiel Memorial Edin^s Hall Broch Cockburn Law Fort Dunglass Collegiate Church |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 11/08/1948 | North British Railway Severe flooding on the 11th and 12th washes away seven bridges and causes six landslips on the East Coast Main Line. Only part of a parapet of the Free Kirk Bridge remained where a single track was left bridging the gap. The Penmanshiel Tunnel floods, with waters reaching almost to the tunnel roof. Large amounts of silt and rubble wash over the line at Grantshouse. With the line closed trains are diverted via Kelso. |
| 07/08/1961 | North British Railway A southbound freight overruns the south end of a loop at Grantshouse, passing through the goods shed and crashing into the station buildings. As a result the line is closed and East Coast Main Line trains diverted via Kelso. |
| 04/05/1964 | North British Railway Grantshouse station closed. |
| 15/07/1969 | North British Railway Freightliner train derails near Grantshouse. |
| 30/03/2010 | North British Railway Two landslips at Grantshouse close the East Coast Main Line. Transport Secretary Lord Adonis orders an independent review of transport's response to severe winter weather (in England). |
