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Restoration of rail services between St Boswells and Berwick-upon-Tweed is heading down the track, a meeting will be told next week.
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Kelso: Standard Class 2MT 2-6-0 78049 pauses at Kelso, with a Berwick to St Boswells service, in August 1963.
Brian Haslehust 19/08/1963


Tweedmouth: The old and the new at Tweedmouth in 1964. A view showing the distinctively modern Tweedmouth box and behind it the branch line to Kelso and St Boswells. Photograph taken on 13 June 1964 from the last ...
Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) 13/06/1964


St Boswells: View north through St Boswells station in the mid 1960s. On the right is the bay platform used by trains on the Kelso and Berwick line and immediately to the right of that stands the 2-road locomotive ...
Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //

All sourced from private collections, these vibrant art-deco and modernist posters turned railway platforms into inspirational art displays
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A campaign is underway that would help improve rail travel in north Northumberland by restoring old links between the East Coast Main Line (ECML) and the Borders Railway.
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Kelso: Standard Class 2 2-6-0 no 78047 with the branch train at Kelso in April 1962 preparing to return to St Boswells. Kelso station lost its passenger service in 1964, with the line from Kelso Junction clo ...
Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) /04/1962

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