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Border Union Railway

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Border Union Railway
Overview
LocaleDumfriesshire & Roxburghshire, Scotland;
Cumberland, England
History
Opened21 July 1859
Successor lineLondon and North Eastern Railway
Closed31 December 1922
Technical
Track gauge1,435 mm (4 ft 8+12 in)
Route map

Hawick
Stobs
Shankend
Whitrope Summit
Riccarton Junction
Steele Road
Newcastleton
Langholm
Gilnockie
Canonbie
Scotland
England
Kershope Foot
Nook Pasture
Penton
Riddings Junction
Scotch Dyke
Longtown
Gretna (CR)│Gretna
Longtown Depot
Lyneside
Floriston (CR)
Harker
Rockcliffe (CR)
Parkhouse Halt
Port Carlisle Junction
Port Carlisle JnPort Carlisle Branch Jn
Caldew Junctions
Rome Street Junction
Carlisle Citadel
Forks JunctionCitadel South Junctions
Bog Junction (under bridge)
Currock JnUpperby JnLondon Rd Jn
Petteril Bridge Junction
Border Union (North British) Railways Act 1859
Act of Parliament
Long titleAn Act to authorize the North British Railway Company to make a Railway from their Hawick Line to the Port Carlisle Railway near Carlisle, with divers Branches therefrom, and for other Purposes.
Citation22 & 23 Vict. c. xxiv

The Border Union Railway was a railway line which connected places in the south of Scotland and Cumberland in England. It was authorised on 21 July 1859 by the Border Union (North British) Railways Act 1859 (22 & 23 Vict. c. xxiv) and advertised as the Waverley Route by the promoters - the North British Railway.[1] It connected the Edinburgh and Hawick Railway at Hawick with Carlisle.

History

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The first section of the route was opened between Carlisle and Scotch Dyke on 12 October 1861, to Newcastleton on 1 March 1862, Riccarton Junction on 2 June 1862 and throughout on 24 June 1862.[1] The railway was built as a double-track main line throughout.

Connections to other lines

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Current operations

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The line was closed to all traffic by British Railways on 5 January 1969. The line was dismantled in 1971.[1]

The Waverley Route Heritage Association have preserved a part of the former route at Whitrope and are working on reopening the section from its base at Whitrope itself down into Riccarton Junction as a heritage railway.[2]

References

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Notes

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  1. ^ a b c Awdry (1990)
  2. ^ Matt Stoddon (2005). ""About / Waverley Route Heritage Association"". wrha.org.uk. WRHA. Retrieved 9 September 2015.

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