Selkirk and Galashiels Railway

Introduction

This line is closed. The line ran south from near Galashiels to Selkirk.






Dates

31/07/1854Selkirk and Galashiels Railway
Act receives Royal assent.
05/04/1856Selkirk and Galashiels Railway
Line opened from Selkirk Junction to Selkirk.
21/07/1859Selkirk and Galashiels RailwayNorth British Railway
Selkirk and Galashiels Railway absorbed by North British Railway.
  /  /1900Selkirk and Galashiels Railway
Abbotsford Ferry station opened.
05/01/1931Selkirk and Galashiels Railway
Abbotsford Ferry station closed, except for 'Braw Lads Gathering' specials.
10/09/1951Selkirk and Galashiels Railway
Selkirk to Galashiels (Selkirk Junction) closed to passengers.
02/01/1964Selkirk and Galashiels Railway
Selkirk to Netherdale Siding closed to freight.
  /11/1964Selkirk and Galashiels Railway
Line closed.
03/10/1966Selkirk and Galashiels Railway
Netherdale Siding to Selkirk Junction closed to freight.

Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.

This junction faced Galashiels. Here the single track Selkirk branch, after crossing a viaduct, met the Waverley Route. The branch doubled just before the junction.
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Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway)
A Tweedbank service passes the site of Selkirk Junction in Galashiels on 12 September 2018. It was one of those junctions named for the place it ...
David Panton 12/09/2018
Looking north over the site of Selkirk Junction, a mile south of Galashiels station, in February 2015, during the latter stages of construction work ...
John Furnevel 08/02/2015
The 0955 Edinburgh - Tweedbank has just run through the site of Selkirk Junction and passed below the Galafoot Lane footbridge on 11 September 2018. ...
John Furnevel 11/09/2018
Re-excavating the infilled section of the Waverley route through Galashiels in preparation for the Borders Railway. View is south east from Galafoot ...
John Furnevel 09/06/2014
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Boleside Road footbridge, over the former Selkirk branch at Galashiels, reopened on 3 November 2023 following renovation by National Highways. The ...
John Yellowlees Collection 07/11/2023
This charming footbridge across the former Selkirk branch, at Boleside Road on the outskirts of Galashiels, is closed awaiting restoration by Highways ...
John Yellowlees 10/07/2021
Shortly after leaving the Waverley Route on the Selkirk branch there were facing points for the gasworks, and you can just make out the course of the ...
David Panton 09/10/2019
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This was a single platform station to the north east of a level crossing by the River Tweed.
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'Wash the area with soap and warm water as soon as possible to relieve the sting, remove any nettle hairs, refrain from scratching...' Part ...
John Furnevel 16/05/2008
Postcard view of the ferry over the River Tweed. Abbotsford Ferry station is on the right on the far bank. ...
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The Selkirk branch goods runs south through the remains of Abbotsford Ferry station in 1962. See image 57014. ...
Dougie Squance (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //1962
A surviving bridge spanning the trackbed of the former Selkirk branch near the site of Abbotsford Ferry station. Photographed on 24 February 2007, ...
John Furnevel 24/02/2007
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Boldside and Abbotsford Ferry station was located by the Abbotsford Ferry over the River Tweed. The location is now known as Boleside, after a house built following the opening of the railway.
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The trackbed of the Selkirk branch in 2008 running south west from the site of the first Abbotsford Ferry station (1856 - 1895). The River Tweed is on ...
John Furnevel 18/05/2008
Approaching Abbotsford Ferry along the trackbed of the Selkirk branch in the spring of 2008. The location is approximately two and a half miles south ...
John Furnevel 18/05/2008
View south west along the trackbed of the Selkirk branch, running parallel with the Tweed at Boleside, seen from the site of the original Abbotsford ...
John Furnevel 18/05/2008
Guard Scott closing the gate at Abbotsford Ferry in 1962 following passage of the Selkirk goods. The line closed completely in 1964. See image ...
Dougie Squance (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //1962
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View west at Ettrickfoot, some 3 miles south of Galashiels, from below the bridge that carries the A7 across the River Tweed. At this point the Tweed ...
John Furnevel 17/08/2016
A class 08 running light engine along the Selkirk branch, thought to be in the early 1960s, crosses the River Tweed at Ettrickfoot see image ...
Dougie Squance (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //
Just under a mile south of Abbotsford Ferry the Selkirk branch crossed the Tweed on its way to Lindean. The railway bridge is long gone see image ...
John Furnevel 17/08/2016
Old photograph looking north east at Ettrickfoot featuring the bridge which used to carry the A7 over the River Tweed just upstream of its confluence ...
Bill Jamieson Collection //
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This was a single platform station on the south bank of the Ettrick Water just south of Ettrick Bridge where a road ran east to the Lindean estate. To the west was Lindean Smithy and Lindean Mill, a corn mill with a mill lade. 'Lindean' described more an area than a village or town.
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The much modified and extended 1856 station building at Lindean in November 2016. The Galashiels - Selkirk branch lost its passenger service in 1951, ...
John Furnevel 10/11/2016
Looking north towards the site of Lindean station in August 2016 see image 56634. The former level crossing beyond which the station was located ...
John Furnevel 17/08/2016
Approaching Lindean from the south with the Selkirk Goods, thought to have been taken in 1964 during the last days of the branch. See image 57146 ...
Dougie Squance (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //1964
The Selkirk branch looking north towards Lindean station, thought to have been taken some time in the 1960s. The station stood beyond the level ...
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Dismantling the old railway bridge over the A7 at Bridgeheugh on the former Selkirk branch in the 1970s see image 55058. ...
Dougie Squance (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //
Removal of the redundant former railway bridge over the A7 near Bridegheugh Farm, just north of Selkirk, thought to have been taken sometime in the ...
Dougie Squance (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //
This undistinguished plate girder bridge shows the crossing of the A7 road by the Selkirk branch near the entrance to Bridgeheugh Farm. The undated ...
Bill Jamieson Collection //
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This was the terminus of the short Selkirk and Galashiels Railway built in the north of the town of Selkirk. The line was built to Selkirk to serve the town and increasingly, after opening, to serve the large number of mills in the town.
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Shunting operations in progress at Selkirk in 1964. The branch from Galashiels closed completely that year, with the last freight running on 30 ...
Dougie Squance (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //1964
62471 Glen Falloch runs round at Selkirk on 4 April 1959 during a stop on the Branch Line Society Scott Country Railtour. ...
Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 04/04/1959
Class D34 4-4-0 no 62471 Glen Falloch photographed at Selkirk on 4 April 1959 during the Branch Line Society Scott Country Railtour. ...
Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 04/04/1959
An impressive looking Glen Falloch photographed during the stop at Selkirk with the BLS Scott Country Railtour on 4 April 1959. The ...
Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 04/04/1959
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