Date: 26/05/2023

Restoration of rail services between St Boswells and Berwick-upon-Tweed is heading down the track, a meeting will be told next week.

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View north through St Boswells station in the mid 1960s. On the right is the bay platform used by trains on the Kelso and Berwick line and immediately to the right of that stands the 2-road locomotive shed see image [[7552]].
Location: St Boswells
Company: Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway)
// Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney)

Standard Class 2MT 2-6-0 78049 pauses at Kelso, with a Berwick to St Boswells service, in August 1963.
Location: Kelso
Company: Kelso Branch (North British Railway)
19/08/1963 Brian Haslehust

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.
Location: Tweedmouth
Company: Newcastle and Berwick Railway
13/06/1964 Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven)

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