Photographs of Galashiels
Galashiels: Footbridge north of Galashiels Station.
Ewan Crawford [//] Ref: 4022 |
Galashiels: Looking north over the site of Galashiels Station.
Ewan Crawford [//] Ref: 4023 |
Galashiels: Looking south over the site of Galashiels Station. The shed was on the left where the large building is.
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.
Ewan Crawford [//] Ref: 4025 |
Galashiels: View north past Galashiels signal box in the 1960s.
Robin Barbour Collection [Courtesy Bruce McCartney] [//] Ref: 24013 |
Galashiels: View south at Galashiels in the sixties - with a stack of mail bags waiting on the down platform.
Robin Barbour Collection [Courtesy Bruce McCartney] [//] Ref: 27841 |
Galashiels: In the rain at Galashiels. NB 4.4.0 62490 Glen Fintaig waits at the head of the 4:10 via Peebles.
G. H. Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow. [07/04/1950] Ref: 7549 |
Galashiels: A4 no 60026 Miles Beevor photographed at the rear of Galashiels shed in January 1964. (The shed had been officially closed since April 1962.) The A4 appears to have been stored here for a period following transfer away from New England in late 1963. 60026 was subsequently moved to Bathgate for a time, again in store, prior to being returned to operational status at Ferryhill on 13 April 1964.
Robin Barbour Collection [Courtesy Bruce McCartney] [12/01/1964] Ref: 25189 |
Galashiels: Inside looking out. The closed (since April 1962) and unlit shed at Galashiels, seen here in January 1964. The building was being used at that time to store A4 no 60026 Miles Beevor, which languished here for a while before eventually being recalled to active service at Ferryhill shed, Aberdeen, in April 1964. The message chalked on the side of the tender reads Tank & boiler MT (empty!) 22/11/63. [With thanks to Gary Straiton].
Robin Barbour Collection [Courtesy Bruce McCartney] [12/01/1964] Ref: 27942 |
Galashiels: 60031 Golden Plover stands at Galashiels on 18 April 1965 with BLS Scottish Rambler No 4 during the Glasgow Queen Street – Edinburgh Waverley – Carlisle leg of the railtour.
Robin Barbour Collection [Courtesy Bruce McCartney] [18/04/1965] Ref: 26602 |
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.
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]
Robin Barbour Collection [Courtesy Bruce McCartney] [05/06/1965] Ref: 25559 |
Galashiels: D5302 arrives at Galashiels with train for Carlisle c 1966.
Robin Barbour Collection [Courtesy Bruce McCartney] [//1966] Ref: 24991 |
Galashiels: D1110 arrives at Galashiels on 13 April 1968 hauling the BR (Scottish Region) Easter Grand Tour. The special ran Edinburgh - Stafford and return via separate circuitous routes, (which are logged on the SBJ website). [Additional nostalgia note: On the right of the photograph is Ian Bell of local Rock/Country band Johnny & the Roccos hailed as ...'one of the finest rock n' roll bands to come out of Scotland'].
Bruce McCartney [13/04/1968] Ref: 29757 |
Galashiels: On 4 January 1969, the final Saturday before withdrawal of scheduled passenger services, a Waverley special ran 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
John Furnevel [/06/2005] Ref: 4475 |
Galashiels: Plaque attached to the road bridge spanning the site of Galashiels station, June 2005.
John Furnevel [/06/2005] Ref: 4476 |
Galashiels: Railway bridge over River Tweed linking Galashiels and Tweedbank. View north in June 2005.
John Furnevel [/06/2005] Ref: 4478 |
Galashiels: Road bridge crossing site of Galashiels Station looking west - June 2005.
John Furnevel [/06/2005] Ref: 4491 |
Galashiels: The former railway bridge that took the Waverley route over the Tweed between Galashiels and Melrose and will carry the reinstated line on to the terminus at Tweedbank. View south west along the river in June 2005.
John Furnevel [/06/2005] Ref: 27765 |
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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].
John Furnevel [09/08/2007] Ref: 16164 |
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.]
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.
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.
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!)
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 ...
Ewan Crawford [17/01/2009] Ref: 22401 |
Galashiels: The new Station Brae bridge at Galashiels, clearly showing the line of the route for the new Borders Railway. This is possibly the only overbridge of an existing or planned railway built in Britain in the last 50 years to have just single-track width, although piggyback freight will clearly be welcomed!
David Spaven [02/04/2010] Ref: 28702 |
Galashiels: View south from the Station Brae bridge in Galashiels on 2nd April 2010. Fifty years ago this would have been a broad panorama of Galashiels station and goods yard, but the re-opened Borders Railway will have to make do with creeping along the eastern side of the Asda building.
David Spaven [02/04/2010] Ref: 28722 |
Galashiels: View north from the Station Brae bridge in Galashiels on 2nd April. The new Galashiels station (single platform) will be located on a broadly north-south alignment in the area of the copper beech hedge in the middle distance.
David Spaven [02/04/2010] Ref: 28730 |
Galashiels: Simon Longland – whose 1992 motor-bike trek to survey all the surviving structures of the Waverley Route started the process which should culminate in the 2014 Borders Railway re-opening – admires the surviving steam deflectors below the pedestrian footbridge spanning the railway at Langlee at the south east end of Galashiels, on 2nd April. Given the design of the bridge, and the steam-related deflector requirement, this unusual adornment must have been created in the early to mid-1960s. Southwards, beyond the bridge, a short stretch of the old solum has been infilled and will need to be re-excavated.
David Spaven [02/04/2010] Ref: 28753 |
Galashiels: The footbridge that still spans the Waverley trackbed between Low Buckholmside and High Buckholmside, Galashiels, under which trains will pass once more on the reopening of the line to Tweedbank. Photographed on 11 April 2010 looking south east towards the station site.
John Furnevel [11/04/2010] Ref: 28584 |
Galashiels: Approximately half a mile north of Galashiels station the Waverley line ran under the A7 through Ladhope Tunnel. The view looks south through the tunnel, now part of a walkway/cycleway, on 11 April 2010. Note the original skew-arch roof construction at this end and the more recent modifications at the south exit to cater for local road improvements. [See image 28676]
John Furnevel [11/04/2010] Ref: 28615 |
Galashiels: The southern approach to Ladhope tunnel, half a mile north of Galashiels station, seen here on 11 April 2010. The photograph shows the modifications that were carried out around the south portal of the tunnel in order to accommodate road improvements following closure of the line [see image 28615].
John Furnevel [11/04/2010] Ref: 28676 |