Date: 09/04/2011

IT recently won notoriety by being identified as the least safe place in the Borders, writes Andrew Keddie. But now convicted offenders will soon be working to change the image of the Black Path, which stretches two miles from Galashiels to Tweedbank, alongside the route of the old railway line.

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The former railway bridge that took the Waverley route over the Tweed between Galashiels and Melrose and will carry the reinstated line on to the terminus at Tweedbank. View south west along the river in June 2005.
Location: Redbridge Viaduct
Company: Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway)
01/06/2005 John Furnevel

The current access and waiting facilities at Tweedbank in February 2007... these will be upgraded prior to the reopening of the line [see image 62252].
Location: Tweedbank
Company: Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway)
20/02/2007 John Furnevel

Simon Longland - whose 1992 motor-bike trek to survey all the surviving structures of the Waverley Route started the process which should culminate in the 2015 Borders Railway re-opening - admires the surviving steam deflectors below the pedestrian footbridge spanning the railway at Langlee at the south east end of Galashiels, on 2nd April. Given the design of the bridge, and the steam-related deflector requirement, this adornment must have been created in the early to mid-1960s. Beyond the bridge, a stretch of the old solum has been infilled and will need to be re-excavated. [See image 46466]
Location: Selkirk Junction
Company: Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway)
02/04/2010 David Spaven