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Network Rail will begin tree and vegetation management on the East Coast Main Line between Lamberton and Reston.
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Primary school children plant time capsule to mark milestone.
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Reston: Primary school children plant time capsule to mark milestone. Reston, in the Scottish Borders, is celebrating the first anniversary of the return of rail passenger services. On May 23, 2022, pas ...
Network Rail 23/05/2023

Scotland's newest station opened in May, but its electric vehicle chargers have still to be connected.
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Reston: The car park at Reston station viewed from the platform.
Network Rail /05/2022

The event organised by Scottish Borders Council provided an opportunity to say thank you to residents of Reston and the surrounding areas.
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The official opening for the new £20 million railway station at Reston in Berwickshire brought together members of the local community who played an integral part in bringing rail travel back to the area for the first time in 58 years.
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Passengers services today called at Reston station for the first time in almost six decades.
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Reston: Jenny Gilruth, Scottish Government Minister for Transport travelled to the Scottish Borders village aboard the 09.33 TransPennine Express service to Reston. The train's arrival was greeted by a piper ...
Network Rail 23/05/2022

A Borders village has seen the return of rail services for the first time in 58 years - with the opening of Britain's newest railways station.
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Reston: The first passenger service to call at Reston in almost six decades is piped into the station. (Monday 23rd May 2022)
Network Rail 23/05/2022

Passenger services will stop at Reston in the Scottish Borders for the first time since 1964. [The new station is near former station site.]
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Reston: The 'ribbon footbridge' of Reston station seen from the south.
Network Rail 19/05/2022


Reston [1st]: The 1000 Kings Cross - Edinburgh Waverley passing Reston on 29 July 1967 behind D9010 King's Own Scottish Borderer.
Dougie Squance (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 29/07/1967

Network Rail has completed the construction of Reston station.The station has been backed by 20m of investment from the Scottish Government. Completion willenabletrainstocall at the village for the first time since1964 with services set to callfromMonday23May.
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Reston: An aerial view from the east of the near complete Reston station showing progress at the site.
Network Rail /05/2022


Reston: The 'ribbon footbridge' of Reston station seen from the south.
Network Rail 19/05/2022

Excitement and bookings have reached new heights in the final week before the new £20million railway station at Reston in Berwickshire opens.
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Reston: An aerial view from the east of the near complete Reston station showing progress at the site.
Network Rail /05/2022

A new railway station in the Borders is set to open to services next month, according to officials.
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Reston: Network Rail's plans for the new Reston station on the East Coast Main Line. The station will be on a raised embankment with a high footbridge, waiting shelters and car park.
Network Rail 04/02/2021

The new fully accessible station at Reston on the East Coast Main Line (ECML) in Berwickshire is a £20 million investment by the Scottish Government to improve access to rail services in the Scottish Borders. It will allow connectivity options to local public transport services, active travel provision and 70 park and ride car parking spaces, including over 20 electric vehicle charging stations.
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Consultation seeking feedback on plans for Tweedbank to Eyemouth active travel route - A public consultation seeking the views of Borderers on a proposed active travel route between Tweedbank and Eyemouth is open. The study will examine a route following the alignment of the former railway line that originally linked the stations and would run through the heart of the region connecting towns and villages including Earlston, Greenlaw, Duns and Chirnside.
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Greenlaw: The former Greenlaw station (1863) seen from the old road bridge on 13 March 2009. Greeenlaw closed to passengers in 1948.
Ian Whittaker 13/03/2009


Chirnside: The former Chirnside station photographed following a snowfall in February 2009. The buildings have been in use as a storage and distribution centre for farming supplies.
Ian Whittaker 13/02/2009


Duns: View east over the former Duns station in February 2009.
Ian Whittaker 27/02/2009

Important steps have been taken in the £20million scheme to create a new railway station at Reston in Berwickshire.
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Reston: Network Rail's plans for the new Reston station on the East Coast Main Line. The presence of a bus is interesting - perhaps going west to locations now bereft of a railway such as Duns. Maybe even as ...
Network Rail 04/02/2021


Reston: Network Rail's plans for the new Reston station on the East Coast Main Line. The station will be on a raised embankment with a high footbridge, waiting shelters and car park.
Network Rail 04/02/2021

A nine-car Azuma from Edinburgh has become the first train to stop at Reston.
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Reston: Network Rail's plans for the new Reston station on the East Coast Main Line. The presence of a bus is interesting - perhaps going west to locations now bereft of a railway such as Duns. Maybe even as ...
Network Rail 04/02/2021

Network Rail has installed a footbridge over the East Coast Mainline as part of the new £20m Reston station development. The work was carried out by contractor Bam Nuttall, during an extended closure of the line with teams working around the clock during a 54-hour window, to allow the bridge sections to be craned in safely over the weekend (September 25-26).
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Reston: Network Rail has installed a footbridge over the East Coast Mainline as part of the new £20m Reston station development. The work was carried out by contractor Bam Nuttall, during an extended clos ...
Network Rail 26/09/2021

Progress is being made on the creation of a new £20m railway station at Reston in Berwickshire.
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Reston: A crane at the worksite for the new Reston station, lifting concrete platform sections into position.
Network Rail /08/2021


Reston: John Lamont on site at Reston Station.
Network Rail /08/2021


Reston: Network Rail's plans for the new Reston station on the East Coast Main Line. The station will be on a raised embankment with a high footbridge, waiting shelters and car park.
Network Rail 04/02/2021

A rail operator has announced plans to operate a new service on the Newcastle to Edinburgh route.
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As work continues to create the £20m Reston station, John Lamont, Member of Parliament (MP) for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk visited site to see first-hand the progress that has been made.
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Reston: John Lamont on site at Reston Station.
Network Rail /08/2021

Scotland's newest station, being built at a cost of £20 million, is likely to be served by only a handful of services a day when it opens next year.
(Permalink) Reston Timetabling


Reston: An Azuma speeds past the future site of the new replacement Reston station. Works to build the station have seen an area of farmland cleared and the beginning of the widening of the railway embankment ...
John Yellowlees 06/04/2021


Reston: Widening of the embankment at the future site of Reston station, with some preparation of the future car park site.
Network Rail 21/03/2021

Berwickshire's already seeing the benefits of the return of the railway to Reston - even before the first train's arrived. That's according to community council chairman Barrie Forrest, who's long campaigned for the reopening of the stop on the East Coast Main Line.
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Reston: Network Rail's plans for the new Reston station on the East Coast Main Line. The presence of a bus is interesting - perhaps going west to locations now bereft of a railway such as Duns. Maybe even as ...
Network Rail 04/02/2021


Reston: Network Rail's plans for the new Reston station on the East Coast Main Line. The station will be on a raised embankment with a high footbridge, waiting shelters and car park.
Network Rail 04/02/2021

Work is now underway to build the new Reston station in the Scottish Borders.
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Reston: Network Rail's plans for the new Reston station on the East Coast Main Line. The presence of a bus is interesting - perhaps going west to locations now bereft of a railway such as Duns. Maybe even as ...
Network Rail 04/02/2021


Reston: Network Rail's plans for the new Reston station on the East Coast Main Line. The station will be on a raised embankment with a high footbridge, waiting shelters and car park.
Network Rail 04/02/2021

A host of Borders politicians have given their thoughts after plans for the return of Reston station were approved.

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Reston: Network Rail's plans for the new Reston station on the East Coast Main Line. The station will be on a raised embankment with a high footbridge, waiting shelters and car park.
Network Rail 04/02/2021


Reston [1st]: The 1000 Kings Cross - Edinburgh Waverley passing Reston on 29 July 1967 behind D9010 King's Own Scottish Borderer.
Dougie Squance (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 29/07/1967

Scottish Borders Council's planning committee has approved proposals which will see a station open in the Borders village of Reston for the first time in more than half a century.
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Prepatory work has begun on Reston Station, much to the delight of Barrie Forrest, chair of the Rail Action Group East of Scotland (RAGES).
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Reston [1st]: A4 60019 Bittern heading north past Reston Junction signal box on 4 November 1967 with an RCTS (West Riding Branch) special from Leeds City to Edinburgh.
Dougie Squance (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 04/11/1967


Reston [1st]: The 0800 East Coast Kings Cross - Edinburgh service runs north through Reston, Berwickshire, on an overcast 8 March 2010. The train is passing the site of the island platform once shared by dow ...
John Furnevel 08/03/2010

The two-platform stop will be built in a Borders village which last saw passenger services in 1964.
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Reston [1st]: A4 60019 Bittern heading north past Reston Junction signal box on 4 November 1967 with an RCTS (West Riding Branch) special from Leeds City to Edinburgh.
Dougie Squance (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 04/11/1967


Reston [1st]: The 0800 East Coast Kings Cross - Edinburgh service runs north through Reston, Berwickshire, on an overcast 8 March 2010. The train is passing the site of the island platform once shared by dow ...
John Furnevel 08/03/2010

Network Rail Scotlands proposal for a new train station at Reston in the Scottish Borders has taken a major step forward.
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Reston [1st]: Scene at Reston, Berwickshire, looking south on 14 August 2018. The Virgin East Coast 0800 Kings Cross - Edinburgh has just run through the site of the former station. This is one of the locations on ...
Andy Furnevel 14/08/2018


Reston [1st]: The 1000 Kings Cross - Edinburgh Waverley passing Reston on 29 July 1967 behind D9010 King's Own Scottish Borderer.
Dougie Squance (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 29/07/1967

There has been pressure for nearly 20 years to re-open Reston station on the East Coast Main Line.
It lies on a bus route linking Eyemouth and Duns, and the village has been poised for residential expansion pending the construction of the station.
The Scottish Government made a commitment to the project, and Scotrail produced a draft timetable, which would be by extension of local services between Edinburgh and Dunbar, while the Scottish Borders Council committed a proportion of the funds required, and also committed to local development.
It was announced that the station would open and services begun in late 2016.
Nothing has happened, however, except that the commitment to construct it has been transferred to Network Rail, which has it in its budget for 2019-2024, and Scotrail has gone back on providing services.
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Reston [1st]: The 1000 Kings Cross - Edinburgh Waverley passing Reston on 29 July 1967 behind D9010 King's Own Scottish Borderer.
Dougie Squance (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 29/07/1967


Reston [1st]: The 0800 East Coast Kings Cross - Edinburgh service runs north through Reston, Berwickshire, on an overcast 8 March 2010. The train is passing the site of the island platform once shared by dow ...
John Furnevel 08/03/2010

Rail bosses have told campaigners they can't keep a promise to reopen a mothballed East Lothian station next year - because there aren't enough trains in Scotland.
Campaigners say they are 'very concerned' after being told by ScotRail that the planned reopening of East Linton station will be delayed by up to two years.
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East Linton [1st]: The down platform buildings at East Linton on 16 May 2007 standing alongside the ECML. Beyond is the fine looking 'Station House'. Originally opened as Linton in 1846, the name change occurred 18 year ...
John Furnevel 16/05/2007


Reston [1st]: The 0800 East Coast Kings Cross - Edinburgh service runs north through Reston, Berwickshire, on an overcast 8 March 2010. The train is passing the site of the island platform once shared by dow ...
John Furnevel 08/03/2010

Mothballed [this is misleading] railway stations are set to reopen after more than half a century after services for stops at the platforms were written into the next ScotRail franchise.
Stations at East Linton, in East Lothian, and Reston, in Berwickshire, will be included in the two-hourly service between Edinburgh and Berwick under the new planning timetable.
Both were closed following the Beeching Report of 1964 which moved to axe rail routes amid increased competition from road haulage services.
If momentum continues trains could be running through both stations as early as December 2016.
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East Linton [1st]: Looking east along the ECML from the old station footbridge at East Linton on 16 May 2007. The surviving platform buildings connect to the substantial structure incorporating the former Station Hou ...
John Furnevel 16/05/2007


Reston [1st]: The 0800 East Coast Kings Cross - Edinburgh service runs north through Reston, Berwickshire, on an overcast 8 March 2010. The train is passing the site of the island platform once shared by dow ...
John Furnevel 08/03/2010

Scottish Borders Council has increased its financial commitment to reopening a railway station at Reston.
The authority had previously confirmed £300,000 towards the project but that has risen to £1.28m.
Council leader David Parker said rail accessibility was important for the 'future social and economic well-being of east Berwickshire'.
He said he believed the increase in the proposed level of funding could 'only bode well for the station plans'.
A study into a local rail service between Edinburgh and Berwick-Upon-Tweed was submitted to the Scottish government late last year.
It recommended establishing a service from Edinburgh to Dunbar and Berwick-upon-Tweed, together with new stations at East Linton and Reston.
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Reston [1st]: The 0800 East Coast Kings Cross - Edinburgh service runs north through Reston, Berwickshire, on an overcast 8 March 2010. The train is passing the site of the island platform once shared by dow ...
John Furnevel 08/03/2010

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