Date: 03/02/2022

Hopes of extending the Borders Railway are dead in the water, according to the councils transport chief.

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A Class 26 brings an Edinburgh-bound service into St Boswells in September 1962.
Location: St Boswells
Company: Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway)
03/09/1962 Brian Haslehust

Scene at Melrose in the 1960s as a Brush type 4 pulls in with an up Waverley route service. The up side here is still largely intact, although the down side was demolished to make way for the A6091. See image [[5967]]
Location: Melrose
Company: Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway)
// Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney)

View north at Hawick station as Waverley line services cross there on 12 June 1968. The southbound train into which mail is being loaded is the 1445 Edinburgh - Carlisle headed by D14, one of the early Peaks, still with its gangway doors.
Location: Hawick [2nd]
Company: Border Union Railway (North British Railway)
12/06/1968 Bruce McCartney

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