Ladhope Tunnel
Location type
TunnelName and dates
Ladhope Tunnel (1849-)Opened on the Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway).
Description
This short tunnel is west of Galashiels station. It currently carries one track under High Buckholmside (the A7). Prior to the closure of the Waverley Route it carried two lines.
The land to the north of the railway is considerably higher than the line and land to the south and there is an immense retaining wall east of the tunnel. This was the site of a major landslip in 1916 which completely blocked the line.
Paterson's No 1 Siding was directly east of the tunnel on the south side and Paterson's No 2 Siding was to the west of the tunnel, also on the south side.
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Tunnel
| Nearby stations Galashiels Galashiels [1st] Abbotsford Ferry [2nd] Abbotsford Ferry [1st] Tweedbank Clovenfords Bowland Lindean Angling Club Cottage Melrose Thornielee Newstead [Melrose] Selkirk Stow Earlston | Paterson^s No 2 Siding Paterson^s No 1 Siding Comelybank Works Skin Works Siding Galabank Mill Comelybank Mill Galashiels Goods Galashiels Shed Bridge No 95 Kilnknowe Junction Wheatlands Mill Gala Mill Tourist/other Galashiels North Signal Box Galashiels South Signal Box Buckholm Tower |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 14/12/1916 | Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway) A major landslip at Ladhope Tunnel, just west of Galashiels [1st] station, blocks line. |
