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Shawfair
All photographs of this location in date order.
![The Borders Railway station at Shawfair under construction on 27 June 2014. View south towards Sheriffhall from the new flyover, with road access and car parking to the left and Newton village in the right background. A 'new town' development is planned around this location.<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/06/2014]](/images/47000/47782.jpg "Shawfair")
![The Borders Railway route through Shawfair, looking north towards Newcraighall on 27 June 2014. Construction work on the platforms and footbridge of Shawfair station is well underway, with the new flyover crossing the formation visible just beyond [see image 47782].<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/06/2014]](/images/47000/47799.jpg "Shawfair")
![The new Borders Railway route through Shawfair on 27 June 2014. View is north east, with Shawfair station under construction just off picture in the left background.<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/06/2014]](/images/47000/47840.jpg "Shawfair")
![View from the new A6106 bridge over the Borders Railway south of Shawfair station between Newton and Millerhill villages, on 14 July looking south to the old road embankment, soon to be breached.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 14/07/2014]](/images/47000/47993.jpg "Shawfair")
![Looking north to Shawfair Station (on the bend) on 14 July from the new A6106 bridge.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 14/07/2014]](/images/48000/48000.jpg "Shawfair")
![Progress at Shawfair on 15 July 2014 - view south towards Sheriffhall.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 15/07/2014]](/images/48000/48015.jpg "Shawfair")
![The under construction platforms at Shawfair on 20 July 2014, looking north towards Newcraighall, with the new flyover running in from Millerhill Road crossing the formation.<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/07/2014]](/images/48000/48071.jpg "Shawfair")
![Looking north along the trackbed from Shawfair towards Newcraighall on 20 July 2014 with the new station under construction immediately behind the camera. <br><br>[John Furnevel 20/07/2014]](/images/48000/48085.jpg "Shawfair")
![Progress at Shawfair on Sunday 3 August 2014. View is south towards Sheriffhall. The road entrance and station car park are off to the left. Newton village stands in the right background.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/08/2014]](/images/48000/48225.jpg "Shawfair")
![Demolition of the old A6106 road embankment between Shawfair and Sheriffhall well underway on 3 August 2014. View south from the new bridge that will carry the realigned road over the Borders Railway. The rail route under the City Bypass can be seen in the background, just to the left of the truck, which is about to negotiate the Sheriffhall roundabout. [See image 47993]<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/08/2014]](/images/48000/48232.jpg "Shawfair")
![View from the flyover at Shawfair station on 3 August 2014, looking north towards Newcraighall.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/08/2014]](/images/48000/48240.jpg "Shawfair")
![The Borders Railway trackbed running south from Shawfair towards the bridge carrying the City Bypass, with Sheriffhall roundabout just off picture to the right. Photograph taken on Sunday 24 August 2014 from the realigned A6106 road.<br><br>[John Furnevel 24/08/2014]](/images/48000/48457.jpg "Shawfair")
![The platforms of Shawfair station on Sunday 24 August 2014 looking south, with ballast now laid along the formation and levelling of the car park area underway on the left.<br><br>[John Furnevel 24/08/2014]](/images/48000/48470.jpg "Shawfair")
![Sleepers being set out through Shawfair station on 1 September 2014, view south.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 01/09/2014]](/images/48000/48548.jpg "Shawfair")
![View north from Shawfair on 1 September 2014 with sleepers in place.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 01/09/2014]](/images/48000/48557.jpg "Shawfair")
![Looking north towards Shawfair station on 7 September 2014. Beyond the platforms is the new overbridge carrying the link from Millerhill Road which will give access to car parking facilities etc on the east side of the line.<br><br>[John Furnevel 07/09/2014]](/images/48000/48630.jpg "Shawfair")
![Looking south over Shawfair Station on 16 September with work on the footbridge well advanced.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 16/09/2014]](/images/48000/48723.jpg "Shawfair")
![Looking ready for tracklaying - Shawfair 5 October 2014.<br><br>[John Furnevel 05/10/2014]](/images/48000/48930.jpg "Shawfair")
![Looking south from Shawfair towards the Edinburgh City Bypass on 5 October 2014 from the realigned A6106 road. Sheriffhall roundabout is just off picture to the right.<br><br>[John Furnevel 05/10/2014]](/images/48000/48933.jpg "Shawfair")
![GBRf 66736 continuing tracklaying on the up line to the south of Shawfair Station on 7 October 2014.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 07/10/2014]](/images/48000/48952.jpg "Shawfair")
![Rail clips being applied to newly laid track at Shawfair on 7 October 2014.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 07/10/2014]](/images/48000/48958.jpg "Shawfair")
![Tracklaying south of Shawfair station on 7 October 2014 with GBRf 66736 at the rear of the train.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 07/10/2014]](/images/48000/48963.jpg "Shawfair")
![Tracklaying taking place on the down line through Shawfair station on 9 October 2014 as part of a media event. GBRf 66706 <I>Nene Valley</I> is at the north end of the train.<br><br>[John Furnevel 09/10/2014]](/images/48000/48977.jpg "Shawfair")
![Lengths of new track being laid at Shawfair during the media event on the morning of 9 October 2014.<br><br>[John Furnevel 09/10/2014]](/images/48000/48984.jpg "Shawfair")
![Part of the formal proceedings at the Borders Railway tracklaying event at Shawfair on 9 October 2014. Left to right are Scotland's Transport Minister Keith Brown, Network Rail CEO Mark Carne and Borders Railway Project Director Hugh Wark. Another key contributor on this damp and chilly morning is the gentleman on the far right just inside the marquee, busy preparing coffee and the best bacon rolls ever...<br><br>[John Furnevel 09/10/2014]](/images/49000/49011.jpg "Shawfair")
![Totally focussed on the task in hand. Part of the tracklaying team preparing for action at Shawfair on 9 October 2014.<br><br>[John Furnevel 09/10/2014]](/images/49000/49045.jpg "Shawfair")
![The Borders Railway tracklaying train operating just to the north of Shawfair station on 9 October 2014. The locomotive is GBRf 66706 <I>Nene Valley</I>. <br><br>[John Furnevel 09/10/2014]](/images/49000/49075.jpg "Shawfair")
![View south over Shawfair Station on 14 October, with 66605 waiting with an empty autoballaster.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 14/10/2014]](/images/49000/49056.jpg "Shawfair")
![Freightliner 66602 on the south end of an empty autoballaster at Shawfair on 14 October.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 14/10/2014]](/images/49000/49067.jpg "Shawfair")
![Work underway on the new car park alongside Shawfair station on 2 November 2014. The car park is located on the east side of the line and will initially provide parking for approximately 60 vehicles.<br><br>[John Furnevel 02/11/2014]](/images/49000/49290.jpg "Shawfair")
![Early casualty? The <I>'modified'</I> road sign pointing west into the under-construction Shawfair station and car park on 10 November 2014. The innocent looking red flatbed trailer contains a section of the ramp for the new station footbridge.<br><br>[John Furnevel 10/11/2014]](/images/49000/49389.jpg "Shawfair")
![Looking south over Shawfair station on the afternoon of 23 December 2014, with notable progress on both the station footbridge and car park since the previous visit. <br><br>[John Furnevel 23/12/2014]](/images/49000/49854.jpg "Shawfair")
![Looking north east towards Millerhill on 18 January from the road overbridge at Shawfair station. On the horizon are various structures which have recently appeared as part of the under-construction Edinburgh & Midlothian recycling plant now accessible from Whitehill Road [see image 50067]. In between is another of the new bridges now spanning the Borders Railway. <br><br>[John Furnevel 18/01/2015]](/images/50000/50087.jpg "Shawfair")
![View south over Shawfair Station on 19 January 2015.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 19/01/2015]](/images/50000/50078.jpg "Shawfair")
![View south showing progress at Shawfair station on 1 March 2015. <br><br>[Ewan Crawford 01/03/2015]](/images/50000/50514.jpg "Shawfair")
![Work continuing at the new Shawfair station on 27 March 2015 with the footbridge the centre of activity on this occasion. View south towards Sheriffhall. <br><br>[John Furnevel 27/03/2015]](/images/50000/50813.jpg "Shawfair")
![The last of the many new bridges to be built over the Borders Railway [see recent news item]. View is north towards Shawfair station in light rain on 12 April 2015, with work well underway. Part of the platforms and station footbridge at Shawfair are visible just beyond the new structure. Harelaw is on the right, with Newton village off picture to the left.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/04/2015]](/images/50000/50968.jpg "Shawfair")
![Activity at Shawfair station on 3 June 2015 centres around fencing and platform 'furniture'. View south towards Sheriffhall.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/06/2015]](/images/51000/51535.jpg "Shawfair")
![ScotRail 158738 held at Shawfair station platform 1 on 15 June on a crew training trip returning from Tweedbank.<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/06/2015]](/images/51000/51668.jpg "Shawfair")
![The 1024 Edinburgh Waverley - Tweedbank arrives at Shawfair on a grey and overcast 8 September morning.<br><br>[John Furnevel 08/09/2015]](/images/52000/52524.jpg "Shawfair")
![My first reaction on stepping out at Shawfair was 'where the...'. Not even the farmstead of Shawfair itself is visible. Never mind; I'm sure the 4000 houses will come: for now blessed peace. Afternoon trains for Tweedbank (this platform) and Waverley pass on day 3 of the new service.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 08/09/2015]](/images/52000/52531.jpg "Shawfair")
![158733 and 158732 pass at Shawfair on 8 September.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 08/09/2015]](/images/52000/52537.jpg "Shawfair")
![An east coast haar is just starting to lift as a train from Tweedbank approaches Shawfair from the Sheriffhall direction on 8 September and is about to pass a service heading south.<br><br>[John Furnevel 08/09/2015]](/images/52000/52541.jpg "Shawfair")
![Until housing development gets going in this planned new town we are going to have to get used to Shawfair station being not much of a draw. Here on opening week there are only 7 cars in the car park and one customer on the Edinburgh platform. Nobody at all is awaiting the 1608 to Tweedbank, just pulling in.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 08/09/2015]](/images/52000/52545.jpg "Shawfair")
![The southern approach to Shawfair on 23 September, with the 0959 Tweedbank - Edinburgh approaching the station. Standing at the southbound platform about to depart is the 1024 Edinburgh - Tweedbank.<br><br>[John Furnevel 23/09/2015]](/images/52000/52688.jpg "Shawfair")
![Scene at Shawfair station on 25 October 2015, where Margaret Hurst unveiled a plaque in memory of the former NBR Study Group chairman, Jeff Hurst.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 25/10/2015]](/images/53000/53031.jpg "Shawfair")
![This plaque, recently affixed to the platform fencing at Shawfair, commemorates the life of local railway historian and author, Jeff Hurst.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 14/11/2015]](/images/53000/53276.jpg "Shawfair")
![The 1128 ex-Tweedbank, formed by ScotRail unit 158728, photographed on 15 February 2016. The train is heading north along the new route opened in 2015 between Shawfair and Newcraighall.<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/02/2016]](/images/54000/54239.jpg "Shawfair")
![The 1154 Edinburgh Waverley - Tweedbank passing the Biogen anaerobic digestion facility at Millerhill on 15 February 2016 as it approaches the Shawfair stop.<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/02/2016]](/images/54000/54276.jpg "Shawfair")
![The 1128 ex-Tweedbank seen shortly after leaving Shawfair heading for Newcraighall on 15 February 2016. Photographed from the road bridge to the north of the station. <br><br>[John Furnevel 15/02/2016]](/images/54000/54299.jpg "Shawfair")
![A bridge too far... the last bridge to be completed on the Borders Railway prior to commencement of passenger services in September 2015. The structure, to the south of Shawfair station, links the village of Newton to the west of the line with housing at Harelaw on the opposite side. View is east towards the latter in February 2016. [See image 50968]<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/02/2016]](/images/60000/60333.jpg "Shawfair")
![The 0925 Sunday service to Tweedbank (0911 ex-Waverley) leaves Shawfair station on 3 July 2016 during a sunny spell between showers of rain.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/07/2016]](/images/55000/55749.jpg "Shawfair")
![ScotRail 158730 on the front of a 4-car set leaving Shawfair southbound on 3 July 2016 with a morning service to Tweedbank. <br><br>[John Furnevel 03/07/2016]](/images/63000/63583.jpg "Shawfair")
![Approaching Shawfair on 24 July on its 3 minute journey from Newcraighall is the 0911 Sunday service from Edinburgh to Tweedbank. No passengers left or boarded the train here on this occasion.<br><br>[John Furnevel 24/07/2016]](/images/55000/55975.jpg "Shawfair")
![ScotRail 158731 approaching Shawfair from the south on a dismal 15 December 2016 with the 1126 Tweedbank – Edinburgh Waverley. The train has just passed below the Edinburgh City Bypass and is on the double track section between Kings Gate and Newcraighall South. The parallel road traffic is on the rerouted A6106, with Sheriffhall Roundabout in the right background.<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/12/2016]](/images/57000/57552.jpg "Shawfair")
![Another day, another acronym... The latest building project to get underway on the site of the former Millerhill Marshalling Yard is RERC, the Edinburgh and Midlothian Recycling and Energy Recovery Centre. Located to the south of the Biogen food waste recycling plant and opposite the under construction ScotRail EMU depot, the new facility is due to come on stream in early 2018 and will result in permanent closure of Powderhall depot. Running between Newcraighall South Junction and Shawfair on 5 February 2017 is the 0911 Edinburgh – Tweedbank, with construction work taking place in the background.<br><br>[John Furnevel 05/02/2017]](/images/58000/58019.jpg "Shawfair")
![The first trains of the day north and south on the Borders Railway cross at Shawfair at 0925 on Sunday 5 February 2017. Both are on time - and not a 158 in sight. <br><br>[John Furnevel 05/02/2017]](/images/58000/58066.jpg "Shawfair")
![The ScotRail 0828 ex-Tweedbank pulls away from the Shawfair stop and heads for Newcraighall on 3 August 2017. It will soon pass the Biogen food waste recycling plant over on the left beyond the bridge, built on the north west corner of the old Millerhill marshalling yard. Meantime, taking shape on the right of the picture, is the new Edinburgh and Midlothian Recycling and Energy Recovery Centre, under construction on another part of the former yard further to the south. This will replace the current refuse handling depot at Powderhall. Good to see what's left of the old yard isn't going to waste! <br><br>[John Furnevel 03/08/2017]](/images/60000/60392.jpg "Shawfair")
![The first trains of the day in each direction on the Borders Railway cross at Shawfair station on Sunday 4 August 2017. View south from the road bridge.<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/08/2017]](/images/60000/60409.jpg "Shawfair")
![The Edinburgh and Midlothian Recycling and Energy Recovery Centre, under construction in the south west corner of Millerhill Yard, towers above the passing ScotRail 0911 Edinburgh - Tweedbank on 12 November 2017. The train is about to make its scheduled stop at Shawfair station, just off picture to the right.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/11/2017]](/images/61000/61867.jpg "Shawfair")
![Scene at a quiet Shawfair station on Sunday 12 November 2017, with the 0845 from Tweedbank pausing on its journey to Edinburgh. In the background is the former mining village of Newton, most recently associated with Monktonhall Colliery which stood off to the left [see image 50741]. This whole area lies within the boundary of Shawfair new town, with various housing and commercial developments underway in the surrounding area (note the new buildings in the right background beyond the rooftops of the village). Growth of the new town will doubtless be reflected in a steady increase in rail passengers.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/11/2017]](/images/62000/62276.jpg "Shawfair")
![A southbound morning service on the Borders Railway, photographed between Newcraighall and Shawfair on 18 December 2017, in the shadow of the under construction Edinburgh and Midlothian Recycling and Energy Recovery Centre.<br><br>[John Furnevel 18/12/2017]](/images/62000/62300.jpg "Shawfair")
![<I>'It can be a lonely job at times...'</I> Looking south over Shawfair station on a grey and cloudy 18 December 2017, with the 1009 ScotRail service to Tweedbank recently arrived. The lone figure on platform 2 is the guard, who has just discovered there are 'no takers' for his train this morning.<br><br>[John Furnevel 18/12/2017]](/images/62000/62313.jpg "Shawfair")
![The first houses in the proposed new town of Shawfair are just going up, but they are nowhere near Shawfair station. Mind you, nothing is near Shawfair station which in addition seems deliberately hard to get to. The upside is that you'll never have people in the way of your shot. A Tweedbank service calls on the afternoon of 16th February 2018.<br>
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<br><br>[David Panton 16/02/2018]](/images/62000/62959.jpg "Shawfair")
![The Sunday 0911 Edinburgh Waverley -Tweedbank, consisting of a 5-car 158+170 combination, running south midway between Newcraighall and Shawfair stations on a sunny 15 April 2018. In the background are the recycling plants which now occupy much of the west side of the former Millerhill Marshalling Yard. On the left is the Biogen food waste processing facility, while on the right is the under construction Edinburgh and Midlothian Recycling and Energy Recovery Centre (which has recently gained a tall chimney). <br><br>[John Furnevel 15/04/2018]](/images/63000/63619.jpg "Shawfair")
