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Photographs of Galashiels
Galashiels: Footbridge north of Galashiels Station.
Edinburgh and Hawick Railway Ewan Crawford [//] Ref: 4022 |
Galashiels: Looking north over the site of Galashiels Station.
Edinburgh and Hawick Railway Ewan Crawford [//] Ref: 4023 |
Galashiels: Looking south over the site of Galashiels Station. The shed was on the left where the large building is.
Edinburgh and Hawick Railway Ewan Crawford [//] Ref: 4024 |
Galashiels: Memorial plaque commemorating the opening of the new road bridge over Galashiels Station in 1938. Portions of the old bridge remain.
Edinburgh and Hawick Railway Ewan Crawford [//] Ref: 4025 |
Galashiels: View north past Galashiels signal box in the 1960s.
Edinburgh and Hawick Railway Robin Barbour Collection [Courtesy Bruce McCartney] [//] Ref: 24013 |
Galashiels: In the rain at Galashiels. NB 4.4.0 63490 Glen Fintaig waits at the head of the 4:10 via Peebles.
Edinburgh and Hawick Railway G. H. Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow. [07/04/1950] Ref: 7549 |
Galashiels: BLS Scottish Rambler no 4 runs into Galashiels on 18 April 1965 behind A4 Pacific no 60031 Golden Plover. The train had arrived from Glasgow Queen Street via Edinburgh Waverley and was heading for Carlisle. Return route was via the WCML to Glasgow Central.
Edinburgh and Hawick Railway Robin Barbour Collection [Courtesy Bruce McCartney] [18/04/1965] Ref: 25851 |
Galashiels: Photo-scramble at Galashiels on 5 June 1965 as 60027 Merlin poses with SLPF special 1X18 on its way back to Edinburgh from Carlisle. The outward journey had been via the ECML to Newcastle, thence the N&C to Carlisle. The reason 60027 is looking in less than pristine railtour condition is that the scheduled locomotive, A3 no 60052, Prince Palatine, failed at Carlisle and 60027 had been commandeered as an emergency stand-in. [See image 21304]
Edinburgh and Hawick Railway Robin Barbour Collection [Courtesy Bruce McCartney] [05/06/1965] Ref: 25559 |
Galashiels: D5302 arrives at Galashiels with train for Carlisle c 1966.
Edinburgh and Hawick Railway Robin Barbour Collection [Courtesy Bruce McCartney] [//1966] Ref: 24991 |
Galashiels: On 4 January 1969, the final Saturday before withdrawal of scheduled passenger services, a Waverley special operated from Newcastle to Edinburgh via Carlisle and Hawick, returning home on the ECML. The train, 1Z10, hauled by Deltic 90002 The Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry is seen here on the outward journey approaching Galashiels.
Edinburgh and Hawick Railway Bruce McCartney [04/01/1969] Ref: 26402 |
Galashiels: A DMU heading south out of Galashiels with a service to Hawick on 4 January 1969, the final Saturday of scheduled passenger services over the line.
Edinburgh and Hawick Railway Bruce McCartney [04/01/1969] Ref: 26427 |
Galashiels: Shunting at Galashiels in March 1969 when the line was freight-only. The white plaque on the locomotive says EURS (Edinburgh University Railway Society). The Society was making use of this particular working to run an attached brake van trip.
Edinburgh and Hawick Railway Bruce McCartney [/03/1969] Ref: 22883 |
Galashiels: Scene in the yard at Galashiels in March 1969. This particular trip over the Waverley route (by then freight-only) had attached a number of brake vans carrying members of Edinburgh University Railway Society, whose plate is displayed on the front of the locomotive.
Edinburgh and Hawick Railway Bruce McCartney [/03/1969] Ref: 22929 |
Galashiels: Cab view from a Clayton passing through Galashiels with a Waverley demolition train in 1971, looking back south towards the station.
Edinburgh and Hawick Railway Bruce McCartney [//1971] Ref: 26307 |
Galashiels: A tale of three bridges; to the right the original bridge over Galashiels station when the station had an all-over roof, to the left the girder replacement, now itself removed and replaced with a concrete structure.
Edinburgh and Hawick Railway Ewan Crawford [21/04/2003] Ref: 18858 |
Galashiels: Looking NE across the site of Galashiels station in June 2005. The former trackbed running across the picture below the road bridge is now itself a road.
Edinburgh and Hawick Railway John Furnevel [/06/2005] Ref: 4475 |
Galashiels: Plaque attached to the road bridge spanning the site of Galashiels station, June 2005.
Edinburgh and Hawick Railway John Furnevel [/06/2005] Ref: 4476 |
Galashiels: Railway bridge over River Tweed linking Galashiels and Tweedbank. View north in June 2005.
Edinburgh and Hawick Railway John Furnevel [/06/2005] Ref: 4478 |
Galashiels: Road bridge crossing site of Galashiels Station looking west - June 2005.
Edinburgh and Hawick Railway John Furnevel [/06/2005] Ref: 4491 |
Galashiels: Galashiels station plan. A single platform station alongside the A7 opposite the bus station. No new parking will be created here with drivers encouraged to use the Park & Ride facilities to the south of the town at Tweedbank.
Edinburgh and Hawick Railway John Furnevel [/02/2007] Ref: 13798 |
Galashiels: Whats new in Galashiels in February 2007? View looks north from the site of the old station towards the proposed site of the new one which will be located on the other side of the new bridge seen under construction on Station Brae. (The Waverley trackbed runs parallel to the edge of the car park area on the right.) Photograph taken from the new car park of the new Asda which is across the new road from the new Tesco near the new bridge over the Gala Water!
Edinburgh and Hawick Railway John Furnevel [/02/2007] Ref: 13799 |
Galashiels: Site of the proposed new station at Galashiels in Feb 2007 looking north. The bus station is to the left across the A7 Ladhope Vale.
Edinburgh and Hawick Railway John Furnevel [/02/2007] Ref: 13800 |
Galashiels: Approach to Galashiels from Tweedbank on 10 May. The new station will be beyond the new bridge currently under construction over Station Brae. View north from the trackbed alongside the new ASDA car park.
Edinburgh and Hawick Railway John Furnevel [10/05/2007] Ref: 14933 |
Galashiels: Looking north from the new bridge built to replace the Station Brae bridge. This is the third bridge on this site. Should the line be re-built the future for the building seen here is not rosy.
Edinburgh and Hawick Railway Ewan Crawford [09/06/2007] Ref: 15377 |
Galashiels: Trackbed approaching Galashiels from Tweedbank seen from the Asda carpark on 9 August with the new bridge over Station Brae completed...which just leaves the problem of the building beyond - [see image 18015].
Edinburgh and Hawick Railway John Furnevel [09/08/2007] Ref: 16164 |
Galashiels: Station Brae road bridge, Galashiels on 6 February, view north from the Asda car park along the trackbed. Work on the new bridge has now been completed along with the associated changes to the road network on the south side of the town.
Edinburgh and Hawick Railway John Furnevel [06/02/2008] Ref: 18014 |
Galashiels: Standing directly above the Waverley trackbed on the completed new road bridge over Station Brae, Galashiels on 6 February 2008. The white building beyond the north parapet of the bridge is a block of flats converted from an old mill which stood adjacent to the railway prior to closure. It will need to be demolished to make way for the new route, which is having to be realigned to avoid the recently built ASDA supermarket located behind the camera. The trackbed can be seen continuing northwest as a walkway alongside the A7 Ladhope Vale in the middle distance, passing the site of the proposed new station. [With thanks to Bill Jamieson.]
Edinburgh and Hawick Railway John Furnevel [06/02/2008] Ref: 18015 |
Galashiels: In times gone by primitive railwaymen placed votive statues in this alcove ... perhaps not. There are a number of safe recesses along the massive retaining wall between the former Galashiels station and Ladhope Tunnel. At 1600 on the 14th of December 1916 there was an enormous landslip here when 70 yards of cutting collapsed blocking the mainline for many days. Before the fall the original retaining wall was buttressed, then reinforced with rails, before the gaps between buttresses were bricked up. But cracks kept reappearing and repairs were in hand when the landslip took place, the workmen barely having time to escape. The impressive rebuilt walls remain intact today.
Edinburgh and Hawick Railway Ewan Crawford [17/01/2009] Ref: 22385 |
Galashiels: Ladhope Tunnel looking north. The view looks towards Edinburgh at the spot the 1916 landslip occurred. The retaining wall to the right has a second of similar height above it. Alterations in favour of the road here have left the tunnel with an unaltered double track entry at the north end and sort of single track exit at the south end.
Edinburgh and HawickRailway Ewan Crawford [17/01/2009] Ref: 22392 |
Galashiels: View along the Waverley trackbed approaching Galashiels from the Tweedbank direction on 17 January 2009. The new bridge over Station Brae, through which the line will reach Galashiels station, stands at what is now the northern end of a superstore car park. Striding off under the bridge is you-know-who, this time with the intention of heading along the old Peebles Railway trackbed towards Walkerburn. (The missing bridges could present a challenge on this one!)
Edinburgh and Hawick Railway John Furnevel [17/01/2009] Ref: 22148 |
Galashiels: Interior of the Ladhope Tunnel looking towards Galashiels station showing the alteration to the southern portal ... which will probably need undoing ...
Edinburgh and Hawick Railway Ewan Crawford [17/01/2009] Ref: 22401 |