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Sprouston

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Sprouston (1849-1955)

Opened on the Kelso Branch (York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway).

Description

This station was a two platform station on a double track railway. The main station building on the up (eastbound) platform remains in use as a house. This is two storey with a single storey to west and east. The east end features a bay window looking out over the station. The trackbed has been infilled. Portions of the platforms remain intact at the west end.

To the west of the station was Sprouston Junction, an end-on junction where the Kelso Branch (North British Railway) met the English company's line.

The station was briefly a terminus while the line between here and Wallace Nick, a temporary station to the west of Kelso, was completed. Probably this was due to the viaduct at Kelso being incomplete.

The line was single at the end, only the eastbound track remained.

External links

Canmore site record
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67

Nearby stations Kelso Carham Wallace Nick Sunilaws Roxburgh Kirkbank Mindrum Coldstream Rutherford Greenlaw Nisbet Marchmont Gordon Twizell Jedfoot	Sprouston Junction Kelso Viaduct Kelso Shed Heiton Siding Roxburgh Viaduct Learmouth Siding West Learmouth Viaduct Hagg Crossing Kirkbank Crossing Tourist/other Kelso Abbey Floors Castle Roxburgh Castle Carham Hall Wallace^s Tower Ormiston House
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.

English company, Scottish location

This is the only remaining station building built in Scotland by an English railway company, the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway, later the North Eastern Railway.

Chronology Dates

/ /1849	Kelso Branch (York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway) Opened from Tweedmouth to Sprouston. Velvet Hall, Norham, Cornhill, Carham and Sprouston opened.
04/07/1955	Kelso Branch (York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway) Local stations closed. Velvet Hall, Twizell, Sunilaws, Carham, Sprouston closed. Tweedmouth, Norham and Coldstream remain open.