Location type

Station

Name and dates

Galashiels (2015-)

Station code: GAL National Rail ScotRail
Where: Scottish Borders, Scotland
Opened on the Borders Railway (Network Rail).
Opened on the Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway).

Description

The new Galashiels station has a single platform on a single track line.

There are few facilities on platform, but, across the A7, via a pedestrian crossing, is the new Transport Interchange for onward connections by bus. It also has rest facilities.

The new station is to the north of the original Galashiels [1st] station. This was formerly the double track approach to the north of the station. with the loss of the original station site this cramped location was used instead.

On the north east side of the line is the immense retaining wall built to hold back higher ground.

To the north the next station is Stow and to the south Tweedbank. Historically, the next station north was Bowland (closer than Stow) and to the south the next was Melrose (further than Tweedbank).

The line is supported and promoted by the Borders Railway Community Rail Partnership .

Tags

Station

External links

NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
NLS Map
08/12/2018

Nearby stations Galashiels [1st] Abbotsford Ferry [2nd] Abbotsford Ferry [1st] Tweedbank Clovenfords Lindean Bowland Melrose Angling Club Cottage Newstead [Melrose] Thornielee Selkirk Earlston Stow St Boswells	Galashiels North Signal Box Paterson's No 1 Siding Ladhope Tunnel Paterson's No 2 Siding Galashiels Goods Comelybank Works Galashiels Shed Skin Works Siding Galabank Mill Comelybank Mill Galashiels South Signal Box Gala Mill Bridge No 95 Kilnknowe Junction Wheatlands Mill
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.