Blog- Teviotbank for Lessismore - Goings-on at Hawick

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Don't anyone get too excited, this is 'Chard in web-based research mode (stop sniggering at the back, Viz readers).

 

Found this, which I've never seen before, quite: http://www.trainnet.org/libraries/Thumbnaills/European/Page12.html

In the middle, look for a yellow end and the word HAWICK.

 

Don't ask me why it's there rubbing shoulders with all that German steam and V200s, but it is. And it's real Pennine MC territory too. Not literally of course, because Hull finescale modellers aren't in Roxburghshire. No, I mean in the DMU sense.

 

Having got over-excited about my pair of Hornby Train-Packs, and bought my copy of DMU Formations & Allocations (Neolithic Era), I was ready to be an apologist for using Met-Cam triples when all the available photographic evidence pointed to Leith's power-trailer twin sets being used. Well the picture at the end of that link looks to me like a triple comprising Blue DMBS and TCL, and a lined Green DMCL. Christmas, Birthday all coming at once. Happy Days!

 

In other news, I picked up a photo off eBay showing the line in the process of demolition at Hawick. Dated 1975 and taken from a point now in the sky somewhere above Morrisons, but then on the embankment between Lochpark siding and the south end of the Teviot Viaduct, it shows the platforms extant stretching over the viaduct, lamps still in place, but all buildings swept away, ballast excavated presumably for use elsewhere, and a few yellow machines presiding over things in a vulture-like fashion. Spoil is being loaded into a large dump truck, rather than a road-going muckaway wagon, in a hollow that I can only imagine has been created by the deliberate breach of the trackbed and removal of the first underbridge south of the station. Again one assumes the derelict trackbed was in use as a haul road to a bulking site somewhere in the vicinity of the carriage sidings. Bad Times.

 

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