Peebles Hydro
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Peebles Hydro (1881-)Description
Peebles Hydro is a hotel located in the east of Peebles, between Glentress Forest on Ven Law (to the north) and the River Tweed (to the south). The hotel was opened 1881. The original French Renaissance style building burned down in 1905 and was replaced.
The former Galashiels, Innerleithen and Peebles Railway (North British Railway) ran through the grounds to the south of the hotel. This line opened in 1864 and extended the original 1855 Peebles Railway to Galashiels [1st] on the Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway) better known as the Waverley Route.
Although the line closed in 1962 and has since been landscaped a very fine lattice footbridge still crosses what was a railway cutting.
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Hotel| Nearby stations Peebles [2nd] Peebles Old Peebles [CR] Cardrona Lyne Eddleston Innerleithen Stobo Earlyvale Gate Walkerburn Lamancha Macbie Hill Broomlee Leadburn Broughton [1st] | Peebles Junction Peebles Goods Peebles Tweed Viaduct Sawmill Peebles CR and NBR Junction Tweedside Mills Eshiels Tunnel March Street Mills Peebles Shed [NB] Peebles Engine Shed Signal Box Peebles West Goods Peebles Gasworks [Eshiels] Peebles Shed [CR] Neidpath Tunnel Tourist/other Cross Kirk Peebles |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
