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All photographs of this location in date order.
![At Tweedmouth. NB 4.4.2T 67472 and the St Boswells-Berwick local.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 06/04/1950]](/images/7000/7553.jpg "Tweedmouth")
![J72 0-6-0 no 68682 of 52D shunts at the south end of Tweedmouth station in August 1957.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 06/08/1957]](/images/26000/26299.jpg "Tweedmouth")
![J72 0-6-0T no 68725 on shed at Tweedmouth on 6 August 1957<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 06/08/1957]](/images/28000/28403.jpg "Tweedmouth")
![Haymarket A3 Pacific no 60035 <I>Windsor Lad</I> passes Tweedmouth signal box on 6 August 1957 and is about to run through Tweedmouth station with the up <I>Heart of Midlothian</I>. [Rescued image]<br>
<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 06/08/1957]](/images/28000/28692.jpg "Tweedmouth")
![Inside the roundhouse at Tweedmouth on 6 June 1959. In store at the time were three locomotives belonging to the National Collection. Seen here is LBSCR Terrier 0-6-0T no 82 Boxhill, while nearby were SE&CR D class 4-4-0 no 31737 and LSWR T3 4-4-0 no 563. The locomotives spent approximately a year here from July 1958. They can be seen today on display at the NRM with the first two currently at York and no 563 at Shildon.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 06/06/1959]](/images/32000/32893.jpg "Tweedmouth")
![60073 <i>St Gatien</I> is too fast for the camera shutter at Tweedmouth on 12 August 1960 as the A3 runs through the station with the up <I>Queen of Scots</I> Pullman.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 12/08/1960]](/images/30000/30663.jpg "Tweedmouth")
![Preserved ex-NBR 4-4-0 no 256 <I>Glen Douglas</I> + J37 no 64624 approaching Tweedmouth from the west with the RCTS (West Riding Branch) <i>Borders Railtour</i> of 9 July 1961. The pair had taken over the railtour at Hawick and, following visits to Greenlaw and Jedburgh, are standing at signals awaiting clearance to enter Tweedmouth station, where A1 Pacific no 60143 <I>Sir Walter Scott</I> would take over the train for the next leg to Newcastle. Shieldfield Terrace is on the right, with the rear of the train standing alongside Berwick Rangers football ground at Shieldfield Park. The white building beyond the signal gantry is Tweedmouth power box, then under construction.<br><br>[K A Gray 09/07/1961]](/images/27000/27903.jpg "Tweedmouth")
![B1 no 61263 takes a rest at Tweedmouth shed while its <br>
trainload of Wilson & Glenny millworkers on an outing from Hawick enjoy the fleshpots of Spittal on 26 August 1961. St Margarets shed must have borrowed this Dundee loco rather than send one of its own down to Hawick to work the train. [With thanks to Bill Lynn]<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 26/08/1961]](/images/35000/35190.jpg "Tweedmouth")
![4472 <I>Flying Scotsman</I> runs north through Tweedmouth station on 9 May 1964 with <I>Pegler's Pullman</I> en route from Doncaster to Edinburgh. Tweeedmouth shed (52D) can be seen in the rear right of the photograph. The locomotive spent the following 9 days in Scotland on railtour duty and returned south light engine on 18 May. It was during this visit that the initial work on the Terence Cuneo painting of 4472 on the Forth Bridge was undertaken. <br>
<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 09/05/1964]](/images/25000/25500.jpg "Tweedmouth")
![The old and the new at Tweedmouth in 1964. A view showing the distinctively modern Tweedmouth box and behind it the branch line to Kelso and St Boswells. Photograph taken on 13 June 1964 from the last ever St Boswells-Berwick train as it heads north towards Berwick following run-round in Tweedmouth station. Amazingly, the route was still double track between Tweedmouth and Kelso, despite carrying just two passenger trains a day in each direction and probably no more than one freight.<br>
<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) 13/06/1964]](/images/28000/28980.jpg "Tweedmouth")
![D2104 shunting the sidings at Tweedmouth on the morning of 27 May 1967.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 27/05/1967]](/images/34000/34653.jpg "Tweedmouth")
![The remains of the straight shed at 52D Tweedmouth during demolition on 4th May 1968. The roundhouse in the right background still survives in 2013, albeit now derelict following a fire some years ago. [See image 40716]<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 04/05/1968]](/images/42000/42108.jpg "Tweedmouth")
![The 10.10 Edinburgh - Kings Cross passes the disused roundhouse at Tweedmouth on Saturday 20 June 1970 with Brush Type 4 no 1501 accelerating after the Berwick stop. Just visible alongside the yard offices above the second coach is the yellow cab end of what is thought to be Blackstone 0-6-0 DE shunter (class 10) No. D3638, which was occupied at that time in lifting the Kelso branch [see image 30192].<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 20/06/1970]](/images/35000/35833.jpg "Tweedmouth")
![The former repair shop at Tweedmouth, photographed from the south end (with the ECML and Tweedmouth Yard to the right) on Saturday September 19 1970. Lurking inside is class 03 shunter No D2056, obviously stabled for the weekend, although my memory tells me it was much more usual, following the closure of the shed in June 1966, for the local pilot to be standing in the open either at Tweedmouth or Berwick. [Ref query 6667]<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 19/09/1970]](/images/50000/50935.jpg "Tweedmouth")
![By the time of this photograph in September 1970, the coaling and watering facilities at Tweedmouth MPD had lain out of use for over four years, while the much longer disused roundhouse beyond had already been sold out of railway ownership to builders' merchants J. T. Dove.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 19/09/1970]](/images/50000/50949.jpg "Tweedmouth")
![Green EE Type 4 No. 252 approaches Tweedmouth with an Edinburgh bound parcels on a September afternoon in 1970. The time was 15:43 and the reporting number 6S21 - indicating that the train had originated in York.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 19/09/1970]](/images/50000/50958.jpg "Tweedmouth")
![As I recall it, entering the shed master's office at Tweedmouth to ask permission to go round the shed was a complete waste of time, even if accompanied by a responsible adult, but by 1970 that didn't matter - the straight shed had been demolished, the roundhouse was in private hands and there was only a single class 03 shunter stabled in the adjacent repair shop [see image 50935] with nobody around on a Saturday to bother the casual visitor.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 19/09/1970]](/images/50000/50966.jpg "Tweedmouth")
![The business side of the old coaling stage at Tweedmouth in 1970, obviously capable of dealing with two locos at any one time. If necessary, the far side could probably have been modified to coal locos from there as well, but the number of tenders and bunkers requiring to be replenished at any one time presumably never justified this. The blocked up entrance to the roundhouse is on the left.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 19/09/1970]](/images/51000/51011.jpg "Tweedmouth")
![EE Type 4 No. 276 passes between Tweedmouth Yard and the closed MPD with the 11:50 Aberdeen to Kings Cross Freightliner on 19 September 1970. While a bulled-up green class 40 could look very smart [see image 26757], my opinion is that in more typical condition they looked drab in the extreme and that the blue livery was actually an improvement, something not necessarily the case for every class.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 19/09/1970]](/images/51000/51021.jpg "Tweedmouth")
![A general view of the repair shop at Tweedmouth from the weed infested shed yard on 19 September 1970. Inside is class 03 shunter No D2056 whose services were not required over the weekend<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 19/09/1970]](/images/51000/51047.jpg "Tweedmouth")
![9019 <I>Royal Highland Fusilier</I> roars through Tweedmouth on 19 September 1970 with the 10:30 Aberdeen - Kings Cross. The Deltic will have taken over from a Haymarket Class 47 at Edinburgh Waverley.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 19/09/1970]](/images/51000/51117.jpg "Tweedmouth")
![Brush Type 4 No. 1545 has rather beaten the camera as it accelerates off the Royal Border Bridge and past the junction with the Kelso line (still in the process of being dismantled) at Tweedmouth on Saturday 19th September 1970. 1E15 was a dated SO relief to the 10:30 Aberdeen - Kings Cross, departing Edinburgh 15 minutes ahead of it at 13:45, and should have run for the last time a fortnight earlier, but has been reinstated in anticipation of heavy traffic in connection with the Edinburgh Festival.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 19/09/1970]](/images/51000/51199.jpg "Tweedmouth")
![By 1970, builder's merchants J T Dove Ltd had put their stamp on the roundhouse at Tweedmouth, with a new entrance formed through the north wall and a large sign proclaiming ownership. Access to the central turntable had been through an archway, by now blocked up, in the centre of the wall [see image 51011].<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 19/09/1970]](/images/51000/51212.jpg "Tweedmouth")
![The north end of the former repair shop at Tweedmouth MPD in September 1970, with the once all-important bike shed prominent in the foreground. <br><br>[Bill Jamieson 19/09/1970]](/images/51000/51298.jpg "Tweedmouth")
![With only four Mk 1 coaches and a Southern Railway PMV in tow, Brush Type 4 No. 1513 is already making good speed following the Berwick stop as it passes through Tweedmouth in 1970. The train is the 14:15 Edinburgh to Newcastle semi-fast, or perhaps semi-slow as it had already taken 90 minutes to get this far! The rear end of the 09:20 York to Edinburgh parcels, which had passed two minutes previously [see image 50958], can just be discerned on the Royal Border Bridge.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 19/09/1970]](/images/51000/51540.jpg "Tweedmouth")
![The shell of the roundhouse of the former Tweedmouth locomotive shed looking north west from Billendean Terrace in October 2012. Access is no longer possible from here, with padlocked metal gates blocking the top of the ramp opposite. Most of the site now forms part of a building supplies operation, with access from the north west via the A1167 Northumberland Road. Tweedmouth shed was officially closed by BR in June 1966. [See image 42108]<br><br>[John Furnevel 07/10/2012]](/images/40000/40716.jpg "Tweedmouth")
![In 1878 a goods line was completed linking the yard on the east side of the ECML at Tweedmouth station with the recently opened Tweed Dock. The steeply graded zig-zag route was eventually closed during the 1960s and most of the former branch is now a public walkway. The most significant surviving structure is a viaduct which now forms part of that walkway, seen here in October 2012 looking north west along Dock Road. [See image 40885]<br><br>[John Furnevel 07/10/2012]](/images/40000/40843.jpg "Tweedmouth")
![A Lancashire town with rows of terraced houses and the obligatory 'dark satanic mill' at the end of the street is a scene much associated with artist L S Lowry. This scene in 2012 is no different - other than for Lancashire read Northumberland and for 'dark satanic mill' read Tweedmouth shed. (Lowry was in fact a regular visitor to the area over the 40 years up to his death in 1976 and 'The Lowry Trail' is now a popular walking route around Berwick and Tweedmouth.)<br><br>[John Furnevel 07/10/2012]](/images/40000/40858.jpg "Tweedmouth")
![View north across the estuary from Tweedmouth's Dock Road Viaduct in October 2012. The shadow of the viaduct's metal railings indicates the route of the final leg of the former Tweed Dock branch [see image 40843]. The dock is off picture to the left, while to the right stands the current RNLI lifeboat station. Berwick lighthouse can just be seen at the end of the breakwater on the north shore in the distance.<br><br>[John Furnevel 07/10/2012]](/images/40000/40885.jpg "Tweedmouth")
![Looking north through the central arch of Dock Road Viaduct, Tweedmouth, on 7 October 2012 [see image 40843]. The River Tweed runs across the centre of the picture beyond Dock Road itself, with a section of the town walls of Berwick prominent on the north side of the estuary.<br><br>[John Furnevel 07/10/2012]](/images/41000/41143.jpg "Tweedmouth")
![The significant surviving <I>gatepost</I> on what was the access road running east off the A 1167 Northumberland Road to Tweedmouth station, photographed in October 2012. The station closed to passengers in June 1964 and the site now hosts a number of commercial premises, including a large building supplies operation. ECML catenary is just visible top left.<br><br>[John Furnevel 07/10/2012]](/images/44000/44574.jpg "Tweedmouth")
![An evening grab shot from a passing train showing the remains of the old roundhouse at 52D Tweedmouth. The east end section of the roof was badly damaged by a fire in January 2010. [See image 40716]<br><br>[David Pesterfield 11/03/2014]](/images/46000/46613.jpg "Tweedmouth")
