Date: 08/03/2022

Hawick and Newcastleton could risk losing out on a proposed extension of the Borders railway after a new Scottish Government intervention, a town provost has warned.

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Hawick and Newcastleton could risk losing out on a proposed extension of the Borders railway after a new Scottish Government intervention, a town provost has warned.

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The evocatively named Wandering Willie, one of the Reid ex-NBR Scott class D30 4-4-0s, seen backing out of the platform at Hawick in 1957, one year before its withdrawal.
Location: Hawick [2nd]
Company: Border Union Railway (North British Railway)
24/12/1957 Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney)

Scene on the platform at Newcastleton in the 1930s, featuring one Walter Brown and Station Master Byers, whose grand-daughter is posing on the platform scales. [Last in the current series from BMcC's neighbour!]
Location: Newcastleton
Company: Border Union Railway (North British Railway)
// Bruce McCartney Collection

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