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Borders MSP Rachael Hamilton has met with Scottish Government Transport Minister Fiona Hyslop to discuss the Borders Railway extension and other transport options in the region.
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Spending on buildings, transport and other projects may need to be curtailed, warns Audit Scotland.
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A multi-million-pound consultation into the extension of the Borders Railway into Cumbria could start this year.
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Strike action means no trains are expected to run to Galashiels for their annual general meeting.
(Permalink) Borders Railway Borders Railway Extension Galashiels  Tweedbank: ScotRail 170408 standing in platform 2 at Tweedbank terminus on 8 April 2022.  Galashiels: Part of the interior of the new Galashiels Interchange on 20 August 2015, showing the exit onto Ladhope Vale and the station platform opposite. |
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As part of the £450 million package for the Borderlands area, £10 million was allocated by the UK and Scottish governments to proceed with work to assess the benefits and challenges of extending the Edinburgh - Tweedbank Borders Railway to Carlisle.
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MP John Lamont says transport officials are 'dragging their feet' over taking the line to Carlisle.
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Hawick and Newcastleton could risk losing out on a proposed extension of the Borders railway after a new Scottish Government intervention, a town provost has warned.
(Permalink) Borders Railway Extension  Newcastleton: Scene on the platform at Newcastleton in the 1930s, featuring one Walter Brown and Station Master Byers, whose grand-daughter is posing on the platform scales. [Last in the current series from BMcC's ...  Hawick [2nd]: The evocatively named Wandering Willie, one of the Reid ex-NBR Scott class D30 4-4-0s, seen backing out of the platform at Hawick in 1957, one year before its withdrawal. |
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The Campaign for Borders Rail is considering commissioning its own research to support the case for extending the Edinburgh - Tweedbank railway to Hawick and Carlisle.
(Permalink) Borders Railway Extension Campaign for Borders Rail Carlisle Hawick Newcastleton St Boswells  St Boswells: A Class 26 enters St Boswells with a northbound service in September 1962. The photographer's notes on the back of the print record the time of day as 11.20 am and the weather as overcast, but do not ...  Newcastleton: On 13th June 1964, A3 Pacific 60077 'The White Knight' came to the rescue of Peak D27, which caught fire north of Newcastleton whilst heading the up 'Waverley'. The diesel can be seen here depo ...  Hawick [2nd]: The RCTS Farewell to the Waverley Route railtour prepares to leave Hawick on 5 January 1969 behind Deltic D9007 Pinza. Hawick station pilot D8606 is standing over on the left while a dmu ... |
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Hopes of extending the Borders Railway are dead in the water, according to the councils transport chief.
(Permalink) Borders Railway Extension Carlisle Hawick Melrose St Boswells Waverley Route  St Boswells: A Class 26 brings an Edinburgh-bound service into St Boswells in September 1962.  Melrose: 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. S ...  Hawick [2nd]: View north at Hawick station as Waverley Route 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 ear ... |
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A recent transport report by the Scottish Government has been branded an enormous let down by a Borders MP.
The second Strategic Transport Projects Review (STPR2) - which will inform investment priorities from 2022 to 2042 was released on Thursday. However, the report has been criticised for failing to directly mention an extension to the Borders Railway. (Permalink) Borders Railway Borders Railway Extension Hawick Melrose STPR2 St Boswells Waverley Route  Tweedbank: 170426 arrives at platform 1, Tweedbank, with a service from Edinburgh on 21st June 2021. 170408 is spare in platform 2. In the background, the Borders Innovation Park takes shape.
 St Boswells: A northbound Sunday track-lifting train approaches St Boswells in the spring of 1971. |
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A campaign group has told a review into the completion of a railway route that it would bring 'significant strategic benefits'.
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Transport bosses have vowed to continue looking at options to extend the Borders Railway as the longest line to be built in Scotland in a century marks five years of successful operation today.
(Permalink) Borders Railway Borders Railway Extension Fifth Anniversary Re-opening  Hassendean: Around a mile south of Hassendean station is this extremely long footbridge at Hassendeanburn Farm. The view looks south from the infilled cutting. [Ref query 2 January 2018]  St Boswells: The former bay platform and west wall of the old locomotive shed at St Boswells, gradually returning to nature in November 2007. |
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