Cockburnspath

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Cockburnspath (1846-1951)

Opened on the North British Railway.

Description

This was a two platform station about a third of a mile north of the village.

The main station building, a single storey, was on the southbound platform. Waiting rooms were in timber.

There was a goods yard on the east side, approached from the south. This had a goods shed at the south end of the southbound platform. Sidings were longer and were cut back.

A third line ran through the station, on its east side. Originally looped this became a siding approached from the south and was later cut back to south of the platform.

A signal box, on the east side at the south end, was replaced in 1900 and closed in 1977. The newer box was just south of the northbound platform.

The station closed to passengers in 1951 and platforms removed. The stone built main building remains, in use as a house. A railway cottage remains to the west.

To the south was the Cockburnspath Mail Apparatus. To the north, on the approach to the Dunglass Viaduct, were catchpoints on the southbound line.

Local

The Southern Upload Way ends (or starts) in Cockburnspath, just south of the former station.

The John Muir Way ends (or starts) in Cockburnspath, north of the former station.

Tags

Station

External links

Canmore site record
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
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NLS Map




Chronology Dates

  /  /1951North British Railway
Cockburnspath station closed.

News items

23/10/2002Service disruption and reinstatement [Railscot]

Books


A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: Scotland - The Lowlands and the Borders v. 6 (Regional railway history series)

Drem to Edinburgh: Including Gullane, Haddington, Tranent, Musselburgh and Fisherrow Branches (Scottish Main Lines)

Edinburgh St. Margaret's: The Story of the 'Other' Edinburgh Depot of the North British Railway 1845-1967

Exploring Disused Railways in East Scotland

Last Trains: Edinburgh and South East Scotland v. 1
LNER Wagons: Volume 3: Scottish Area: Ex North British and Ex-Great North of Scotland Railway Wagons
North British Railway in Northumberland, The

North British Railway, Vol. 1 (Standard Railway History)

North British Railway, Vol. 2 (Standard Railway History)

Signalling and Signal Boxes along the North British Railway, Great North of Scotland Railway and the CLC Routes

South East Scotland (British Railways Past & Present)

The Castle and the Bear: A Brief History of the North British Railway

The North British Railway a History
The North British Railway, Volume 1, One,
The Vanished Railways of Old Western Dunbartonshire (Britains Railways/Old Photos)

Vanished Railways of West Lothian