Wallace Nick

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Wallace Nick (1850-1851)

Opened on the Kelso Branch (North British Railway).

Description

This was a temporary terminus while Kelso station was prepared. Nothing remains to be seen.

To the north of the line is Wallace Nick farm.

Tags

Terminus

External links

NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map


Chronology Dates

  /  /1850Kelso Branch (North British Railway)
Opened from Kelso Junction to Wallace Nick (a temporary terminus west of Kelso). Roxburgh opened.
27/01/1851Kelso Branch (North British Railway)
Extended to Kelso from Wallace Nick station, a temporary terminus just west of Kelso, which is closed. The line extends east to Sprouston Junction where the Kelso Branch (York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway) is met.

Books


Berwick to St. Boswells: Via Kelso Including the Jedburgh Branch (Country Railway Routes)

Kelso 1919: Roxburghshire 10.02 (Old Ordnance Survey Maps of Roxburghshire)

Scotland’s Lost Branch Lines: Where Beeching Got It Wrong

The Waverley Route: The District Controller's View 'Edinburgh (Waverley) - Carlisle Via Hawick'