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Falahill Summit
All photographs of this location in date order.
![A diverted service off the Edinburgh - Carstairs route heading south at Falahill in 1968 behind an unidentified EE Type 4 locomotive. [See image 49631]<br><br>[Bruce McCartney //1968]](/images/49000/49636.jpg "Falahill Summit")
![A class 08 hauled track recovery train rumbles north in rapidly fading light towards Falahill Summit in this rare January 1972 view, photographed during the penultimate phase of track lifting along the Waverley Route. <br><br>[David Spaven /01/1972]](/images/32000/32396.jpg "Falahill Summit")
![View looking north at Falahill Summit.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1997]](/images/0/367.jpg "Falahill Summit")
![Falahill Summit looking north in 1997. The former line was to the right and the sidings to the left. The former railway cottage can be seen further along the line, on the left.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 20/04/1997]](/images/63000/63029.jpg "Falahill Summit")
![View north from the trackbed of the former Waverley Route at Falahill Summit in 2002. The trackbed was used as an access road for the former railway cottage after closure of the line. The roof of the cottage can be seen on the distant right. The signal box and water tank were to the right and down sidings to the left.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //2002]](/images/63000/63049.jpg "Falahill Summit")
![Looking north east in March 2007 along the <i>Waverley route</i> approach to Falahill summit. The gradient is obvious here. All going to plan, rail traffic may once again return to run through the area. <br><br>[James Young 14/03/2007]](/images/24000/24211.jpg "Falahill Summit")
![Looking south on the bed of the Waverley line as the formation leads to Falahill summit. Lower right can be seen an odd yellow 'plastic box' type affair with a metal disc - several of which were embedded into the ballast here. Amazingly, coach-bolts from the old line, as well as sand bins, telegraph insulators and datum 'monuments' are all lying around here - and we even came across a very old <i>Tizer</i> bottle - possibly quaffed by a member of railway staff many years ago.....<br><br>[James Young 14/03/2007]](/images/24000/24212.jpg "Falahill Summit")
![Overbridge leading to Cowbraehill farm, between Falahill and Tynehead looking North. This 1849 structure is due for demolition as part of the <i>Waverley line</i> reconstruction. As of May 2009, a temporary road had been constructed to serve Cowbraehill in the interim. A new structure is due to be built here.<br><br>[James Young 14/03/2007]](/images/24000/24216.jpg "Falahill Summit")
![Something about Falahill? A bottle of unknown origin bearing the legend <i>Arnison Penrith and Wigton</i> found near Falahill in 2007<br><br>[James Young 14/03/2007]](/images/24000/24474.jpg "Falahill Summit")
![Railway beverages No 2: an old <i>Tizer</i> bottle found just off the solum near Falahill in 2007.<br><br>[James Young 14/03/2007]](/images/24000/24480.jpg "Falahill Summit")
![The location of a classic shot by Derek Cross in the 1960s, the Waverley Route solum runs south towards Falahill Summit, rejoining the A7 road corridor after its wide sweep eastwards from Gorebridge to Tynehead to minimise the gradient to the summit. Seen here on 26th October, looking north over a stretch of 1 in 100 gradient.<br><br>[David Spaven 26/10/2012]](/images/41000/41038.jpg "Falahill Summit")
![Looking north towards Falahill Summit on 26th October. The planned diversion of the A7 away from Falahill Cottages will involve a deep cut through the hills in the right distance - with the cost falling on the Borders Railway rather than the roads budget!<br><br>[David Spaven 26/10/2012]](/images/41000/41102.jpg "Falahill Summit")
![Looking north over the A7 at Falahill in February 2013 towards the Waverley Route trackbed on the right. Some re-routing of the road will be necessary to provide a bridge over the new railway.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 16/02/2013]](/images/42000/42090.jpg "Falahill Summit")
![View north from the lay-by at Falahill on 30 July 2013 with the Waverley trackbed on the far right and the A7 running across the picture. Falahill cottages are hidden by the trees. Work planned here is currently described on the Transport Scotland website as follows... <I> The proposed development involves reinstating the Borders Railway .... and realigning the A7 to the east of Falahill cottages. The realigned road will cross the railway using a simple bridge structure.</I> [Update - an alternate planning proposal is now under consideration which would see the A7 staying close to its present course - August 2013] <br><br>[John Furnevel 30/07/2013]](/images/44000/44033.jpg "Falahill Summit")
![Some serious rock shifting (and road sweeping) taking place alongside the A7 at Falahill on 18 September 2013 following the commencement of blasting operations on the site earlier in the week. [See recent news item]<br><br>[John Furnevel 18/09/2013]](/images/44000/44650.jpg "Falahill Summit")
![The Waverley trackbed at Falahill on 13 April 2014, looking north towards Tynehead.<br><br>[John Furnevel 13/04/2014]](/images/46000/46986.jpg "Falahill Summit")
![Looking north to the climb up to Falahill on 16 September 2014.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 16/09/2014]](/images/48000/48744.jpg "Falahill Summit")
![The new road bridge which will carry the A7 over the Borders Railway at Falahill was recently opened to single-file traffic. View shows the southern approach to the new bridge on Sunday 19 October 2014, with the trackbed visible on the far left.<br><br>[John Furnevel 19/10/2014]](/images/49000/49114.jpg "Falahill Summit")
![The day after reaching Scottish Borders Council territory, the rail-laying train inches south towards Falahill on 6 November 2014 - seen from the infamous Overbridge 41 [see Image 48014].<br><br>[David Spaven 06/11/2014]](/images/49000/49381.jpg "Falahill Summit")
![Looking north towards Falahill village on 10 November 2014. On the left GBRf 66736+66752 continue their steady progress south with the tracklaying train. In the right background is the recently opened road bridge which now carries the realigned A7 over the new railway. <br><br>[Ewan Crawford 10/11/2014]](/images/49000/49427.jpg "Falahill Summit")
![Rails to Fala, 11 November 2014. View north towards Tynehead. [See image 41038]<br><br>[Bill Roberton 11/11/2014]](/images/49000/49424.jpg "Falahill Summit")
![An empty ballast train consisting of 30 vehicles trundles back to base over Falahill at around 2.30pm on 2 December 2014. Freightliner 66605 was on the north end of the train with 66603 bringing up the rear.<br><br>[Bruce McCartney 02/12/2014]](/images/49000/49631.jpg "Falahill Summit")
![The new road/rail alignment at the south end of Falahill village where the Borders Railway now passes below the A7. Photograph taken during the 2014 Christmas break looking towards Galashiels. Considerable civil engineering work was required to achieve the final arrangement shown here. [See image 44650]<br><br>[John Furnevel 26/12/2014]](/images/49000/49914.jpg "Falahill Summit")
![One of the Borders Railway Newcraighall - Tweedbank driver training turns, seen here on the afternoon of 19 June 2015 on the climb south to Falahill Summit. The DMU on this occasion is ScotRail 158731. <br><br>[John Furnevel 19/06/2015]](/images/51000/51714.jpg "Falahill Summit")
![ScotRail 158731 southbound near Falahill Summit on the afternoon of 19 June 2015 during a Borders Railway Newcraighall - Tweedbank driver training run.<br><br>[John Furnevel 19/06/2015]](/images/51000/51745.jpg "Falahill Summit")
![The ScotRail 1159 Tweedbank - Edinburgh Waverley service rounding the curve at Falahill on 26 November 2015, followed by a shower of rain.<br><br>[John Furnevel 26/11/2015]](/images/53000/53417.jpg "Falahill Summit")
![The late running 1253 Edinburgh - Tweedbank meets light rain as it rounds the curve at Falahill on 4 August 2016. <br><br>[John Furnevel 04/08/2016]](/images/56000/56206.jpg "Falahill Summit")
![Northbound Scotrail 158735 emerges from under the A7 at the south end of Falahill village on 17 August 2016. The train is the 1259 Tweedbank - Edinburgh. The road runs immediately beyond the wall - note the extremely acute angle between road and railway, resulting in the lengthy 'diveunder' required here. <br><br>[John Furnevel 17/08/2016]](/images/56000/56265.jpg "Falahill Summit")
![The 1332 Tweedbank - Edinburgh runs north past Falahill village heading for the summit on 17 August 2016. <br><br>[John Furnevel 17/08/2016]](/images/56000/56444.jpg "Falahill Summit")
![158701 nears Falahill Summit with the 16.11 from Edinburgh to Tweedbank.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 21/08/2016]](/images/56000/56246.jpg "Falahill Summit")
![Southbound 46100 'Royal Scot' just north of Falahill Summit on 21 August 2016 with the second ScotRail 'Borders Line Steam Special' of the day to Tweedbank.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 21/08/2016]](/images/56000/56253.jpg "Falahill Summit")
![The late running ScotRail 1324 Edinburgh Waverley - Tweedbank passes through the remnants of a Boxing Day snowfall at Fallahill Summit on 27 December 2017.<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/12/2017]](/images/62000/62289.jpg "Falahill Summit")
![An afternoon service on the Borders Railway rounds the curve approaching Falahill on 27 December 2017.<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/12/2017]](/images/62000/62430.jpg "Falahill Summit")
![Evening train southbound at Falahill. There were loops on either side and two sidings to the left until closure of the box in 1963. The railway cottage was demolished in the run up to the re-opening.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 24/02/2018]](/images/63000/63030.jpg "Falahill Summit")
![A Sunday morning service on the Borders Railway passing Falahill Village on 8 April 2018. Photographed from alongside the A7, below which the train is about to pass [see image 56265]. [Ref query 8 April 2018]<br><br>[John Furnevel 08/04/2018]](/images/63000/63540.jpg "Falahill Summit")
