Grantshouse

Location type

Station

Names and dates

Grant's House (1846-1915)
Grantshouse (1915-1964)

Station code: National Rail
Opened on the North British Railway.

Description

This was a two platform station immediately south of the small village of Grant's House.

Today there are loops on either side of the line with two engineers' s siding at the east end of the southbound loop.

The sidings are located on the site of the former station buildings on the southbound platform. The main station building, typical of the line, was a single storey building in stone. The building was badly damaged by a runaway locomotive in 1961. There was a timber shelter on the northbound platform.

There was a goods yard at the west end of the station, reached by a reversing spur from the southbound line. The yard had a goods shed at the west end of the southbound platform. A further siding was to the south of the station, also reached by reversal this time from the northbound line. To the east of the station, on the north side of the line, was a large water tank.

The box here was replaced in 1918 and closed in 1978, replaced by the Edinburgh Signalling Centre.

Penmanshiel Tunnel was to the west. Brockholes Bridge is to the east. This bridge was washed away in the severe floods of 1948 which closed the railway. Further flood damage brought tonnes of material onto the line immediately east of Grantshouse 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
NLS Map




Chronology Dates

11/08/1948North British Railway
Severe flooding on the 11th and 12th washes away seven bridges and causes six landslips on the East Coast Main Line. Only part of a parapet of the Free Kirk Bridge remained where a single track was left bridging the gap. The Penmanshiel Tunnel floods, with waters reaching almost to the tunnel roof. Large amounts of silt and rubble wash over the line at Grantshouse. With the line closed trains are diverted via Kelso.
07/08/1961North British Railway
A southbound freight overruns the south end of a loop at Grantshouse, passing through the goods shed and crashing into the station buildings. As a result the line is closed and East Coast Main Line trains diverted via Kelso.
04/05/1964North British Railway
Grantshouse station closed.
15/07/1969North British Railway
Freightliner train derails near Grantshouse.
30/03/2010North British Railway
Two landslips at Grantshouse close the East Coast Main Line. Transport Secretary Lord Adonis orders an independent review of transport's response to severe winter weather (in England).

News items

18/11/2022Heavy rain and flooding brings travel disruption [BBC News]
18/11/202212 pictures as amber weather warning extended as flooding causes chaos across Scotland [Scotsman]
30/03/2010East Coast line hit by landslips [BBC News]
28/07/2000Flooding of the East Coast Mainline at Grantshouse [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