The train travelled from Birmingham to Edinburgh via Tweedbank with around 400 passengers on board. Despite extensive public protests, the Waverley line closed on the January 5th, 1969.

However, assuming the line does reopen, what kind of difference might it make? Leaving the centre of Melrose - just a couple of miles from Tweedbank - at just after 7.30am the roads were pretty quiet.

Closure of the Waverley railway in 1969 was a great loss to the Borders. But the proposed reopening of the line as far as Tweedbank, just south of Galashiels, is environmental and economic folly. At ...

Footage shows a journey along the new railway line between Edinburgh and the Scottish Borders - in less than three minutes. The journey from Edinburgh's Waverley station to Tweedbank will take ...

TRAINS will run on the historic Waverley route next week for the first time in nearly 50 years. All Sections. ... Trains to run on historic Waverley line again. By ALASTAIR DALTON.

In September 2015, part of the line reopened between the Scottish capital and Tweedbank, and since then campaigners have continued to push politicians both in the Borders and Cumbria to fully ...

The long debated Borders Railway from Waverley station to the “current” terminus at Tweedbank, at 30 miles the longest new domestic railway to be built in Britain for more than a century, was ...

Edinburgh to Tweedbank rail line: Scotland's new literary pilgrimage. By Rob McFarland. January 17, 2016 — 12.15am. ... Edinburgh's Waverley – and ending close to his beloved home of Abbotsford.

At 5.10pm, the rail operator issued an update which read: “Train services between Edinburgh and Tweedbank are returning to normal but some services will still be cancelled, delayed or revised.” ...

Transport Scotland, a Scottish Government agency, is constructing a 49km railway line from Edinburgh Waverley to Tweedbank in the Scottish Borders. Around 50% of the 49km railway line will consist of ...

Baby Waverley is named after railway line A COUPLE who met while helping to publicise the new Borders railway have named their daughter after the landmark project. By Stephen Wilkie.

Footage shows a journey along the new railway line between Edinburgh and the Scottish Borders - in less than three minutes. The journey from Edinburgh's Waverley station to Tweedbank will take ...