Tweedmouth railway station

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Coordinates: 55°45′40″N 2°00′29″W / 55.761°N 2.008°W / 55.761; -2.008
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Tweedmouth
North Eastern Railway
Post-groupingLondon and North Eastern Railway
North Eastern Region of British Railways
Key dates
29 March 1847Station opens
15 June 1964Closed to passengers

Tweedmouth railway station was a

Newtown St. Boswells. The station lies to the south of the Royal Border Bridge
.

It was opened on 29 March 1847

Queen Victoria
, trains had an unbroken run from London to Edinburgh.

The station was designed (like all the other

Newcastle and Berwick Railway ones) by Benjamin Green, but was considerably more ornate - costing over £8600 to construct (due to company chairman George Hudson's insistence that it be as ornate as the North British Railway's depot on the other side of the River Tweed). The main single-storey building was on the southbound side, with a two-storey hotel and refreshment room attached to it at its northern end. Behind this were the two active platforms, which were served by loops off the main running lines. A substantial goods shed was also built, along with a four track locomotive depot in 1850. Despite this, its proximity to the main Berwick station (which was barely a mile (1.6 km) to the north) meant that it remained little more than a wayside halt for mainline local trains and the Kelso branch throughout its lifetime.[3]

However it was considerably more important in operational terms for the

1923 Grouping, the London and North Eastern Railway
concentrated all of its shed provision there, closing the old North British depot at Berwick station as part of the rebuild there in 1927.

After nationalisation in 1948, usage of the station gradually declined; by 1960, only a single train to and from Newcastle called each weekday, along with two in each direction on the Kelso and Newtown St Boswells branch line.

Beeching Axe
. The loco shed suffered a similar fate two years later, though goods traffic continued to be handled until October 1984.

The station buildings were subsequently demolished,

signal box that supervises the main line from the Scottish border southwards towards Alnmouth
and a number of former railway staff cottages.

Preceding station Historical railways Following station
Scremerston
Line open, station closed 		 
North Eastern Railway
East Coast Main Line
   Berwick-upon-Tweed
Line and station open
Disused railways
Velvet Hall
Line and station closed 		 
North Eastern Railway
Kelso Branch
   Terminus

Notes

  1. ^ a b Body 1988, p. 171
  2. ^ a b Butt 1995, p. 236
  3. ^ a b c Disused Stations - Tweedmouth Disused Stations; Retrieved 16 December 2015
  4. ^ Kelso Railway station history Welcome to Kelso website; Accessed 21 November 2008

References

  • Body, G. (1988). PSL Field Guides - Railways of the Eastern Region Volume 2. Wellingborough: Patrick Stephens Ltd.
    ISBN 1-85260-072-1
    .
  • Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd.
    ISBN 1-85260-508-1
    . R508.

External links
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