Btourer Posted August 26, 2013 Share Posted August 26, 2013 Not really 'new' discussion, but there has been some minor progress on the possibility of extending the Waverley Route to Hawick: http://www.scotsman.com/news/transport/call-to-extend-borders-rail-link-to-hawick-1-3053542 ...oh and also tourist trains are to transverse the route once more! http://www.thesouthernreporter.co.uk/news/business/first-minister-alex-salmond-announces-tourist-trains-for-borders-railway-1-3056049 I agree wholeheartedly that the route should be extended to Hawick, and I applaud those people who are putting effort into lobbying for this. The major problem with extending the railway though will be the bypass that is more or less right on the track bed to the east of Melrose station. Does anyone have an idea of how an extension from Tweedbank could realistically be routed in this area? It would have to cross the road at some point to reach the existing track bed to the south. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fegguk Posted August 26, 2013 Share Posted August 26, 2013 I agree wholeheartedly that the route should be extended to Hawick, and I applaud those people who are putting effort into lobbying for this. The major problem with extending the railway though will be the bypass that is more or less right on the track bed to the east of Melrose station. Does anyone have an idea of how an extension from Tweedbank could realistically be routed in this area? It would have to cross the road at some point to reach the existing track bed to the south. It should not be that difficult to fit the railway in the major problem would be just beyond the station the bypass would need to be moved further south to allow the railway to fit where the road now is. This would cut off the entrance into Melrose from the bypass this would need to be to moved to the other side of the road. All of which means demolishing a couple of building on the south side of the bypass Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted September 3, 2013 Author Share Posted September 3, 2013 It should not be that difficult to fit the railway in the major problem would be just beyond the station the bypass would need to be moved further south to allow the railway to fit where the road now is. This would cut off the entrance into Melrose from the bypass this would need to be to moved to the other side of the road. All of which means demolishing a couple of building on the south side of the bypass As with Falahill I reckon there's more than one way of skinning this particular felis catus. I would be for making a junction with the B6374 (Dean Road) and the old and new A6091s east of the town, at the same time taking the A-road under the railway formation. It's not as though there's a connection between the B6359 Dingleton Road and the by-pass in any case, and I doubt that location (at the station) would find favour with the planners. I need to think about this a little more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Btourer Posted September 6, 2013 Share Posted September 6, 2013 Does anyone know of a photograph which shows the inside of Hawick engine shed? I have a really good photograph of the interior of Hawick goods shed, but at the time it was taken the locomotive shed had already been demolished, so there are none of it. Thank you for any help you can provide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawick_1987 Posted September 6, 2013 Share Posted September 6, 2013 A few interior shots of the said Goods Shed: http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/88149/digital_images/hawick+railway+station/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Blandford1969 Posted September 23, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 23, 2013 A few more images have appeared on flickr of a last day special seen at Fountainhall and Riccarton. http://www.flickr.com/photos/96859208@N07/9859664284/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/96859208@N07/9859674855/ Duncan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted October 3, 2013 Author Share Posted October 3, 2013 Reclamation by arable interests at Belses... http://www.railbrit.co.uk/imageenlarge/imagecomplete.php?id=44834 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
37175 Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 I can't recall seeing this one before: http://railway-photography.smugmug.com/Railway-of-Scotland/LNER-Steam-in-Scotland/Gresley-Locos-in-Scotland/Gresley-A4/i-MzL7r2c/A 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted October 12, 2013 Author Share Posted October 12, 2013 Me neither, several of Merlin on that working, but not at that spot. Low Buckholmside is unrecognisable on Google Streetview, apart from the footbridge of legend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwb.photos Posted October 12, 2013 Share Posted October 12, 2013 I have a copy of this Photo myself, it is copyright N E Stead and it is one of a number I purchased many years ago from Bill Peacock @ The Hawick and District Railway Modelling Society. They had a list at that time you could order from. Regards David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Lewis Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 This may well have been linked before, but if it has then I missed it. Some great footage on here: there's only about 4 1/2 minutes of Waverley route footage, starting around the 2min mark, but its' great stuff, especially that at St. Boswells. Also lots of great shots from elsewhere in the country: a pleasant way to spend an hour! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXw_cQbr6Do 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 http://www.flickr.com/photos/96859208@N07/10577437755/ 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted November 1, 2013 Author Share Posted November 1, 2013 http://www.flickr.com/photos/96859208@N07/10577437755/ Holy Grail material that! Bristol Lodekkas parked up in the compound on the left? Binns department store ad-rears of the period, presumably for the Carlisle shop, acquired 1953 and now subsumed in House of Fraser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted December 22, 2013 Author Share Posted December 22, 2013 Liddesdale road quarry access bridge - NEW SPOT - taken from Class 47-hauled up special. http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/210407/details/hawick+liddesdale+road+quarry+access+overbridge/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
37175 Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 I was looking at some of Bruce and Geoff's old photos again, and it shocked me that I'd never bothered until now to check the existence of the 08 shunter that hauled away the remnants of the Waverley Route from the Newcastleton-Whitrope-Hawick area. http://www.geoffspages.co.uk/monorail/bmcc05.htm Sadly, according to wnxx.com, it passed away in November 2007 at Thomson's scrapyard at Stockton after being withdrawn in 2002 - wish I'd paid more attention now and we could have had a historic shunter back at Whitrope. 08720 (D3888) 01/02 ML WSSC C: 11/07 TJ Thomson Stockton 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted December 23, 2013 Author Share Posted December 23, 2013 Notice amongst the track recovery shots, one of the Rolls Royce engined Claytons, identifiably the one that received a full yellow end in green. (D8586 GFYE - transition diesel liveries Ed.) http://railonline.zenfolio.com/p494075681/hE787E2E#he787e2e 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted December 25, 2013 Author Share Posted December 25, 2013 Thanks to Project Hawick for hosting this Dave Liddle shot: http://i1253.photobucket.com/albums/hh595/Hawick_1987/hawickdave_liddle_early1970s5.jpg 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawick_1987 Posted December 25, 2013 Share Posted December 25, 2013 We were not too sure of the owner of this photo - it was one that cropped up in October 2012. Cracking photo though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium cessna152towser Posted December 25, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 25, 2013 Bristol Lodekkas parked up in the compound on the left? Binns department store ad-rears of the period, presumably for the Carlisle shop, acquired 1953 and now subsumed in House of Fraser.9/quote] Probably Western SMT Lodekkas. There was a small Western SMT garage at Longtown, adjacent to the railway line, which was a sub depot of Carlisle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted December 25, 2013 Author Share Posted December 25, 2013 (edited) Bristol Lodekkas parked up in the compound on the left? Binns department store ad-rears of the period, presumably for the Carlisle shop, acquired 1953 and now subsumed in House of Fraser.9/quote] Probably Western SMT Lodekkas. There was a small Western SMT garage at Longtown, adjacent to the railway line, which was a sub depot of Carlisle. Oh now then.... Western SMT - at Longtown - in Cumberland?? ?? And sub-depot of Carlisle??!!!! Longtown just became enriched even further! Time for some research, methinks. So grateful for you sharing the gen (and thanks for the amazing Waverley route flickr collection too). Edited December 25, 2013 by 'CHARD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
37175 Posted December 25, 2013 Share Posted December 25, 2013 Thanks to Project Hawick for hosting this Dave Liddle shot: http://i1253.photobucket.com/albums/hh595/Hawick_1987/hawickdave_liddle_early1970s5.jpg It doesn't appear to link to any photo ... go on, give us a clue as to what we're missing ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawick_1987 Posted December 26, 2013 Share Posted December 26, 2013 It doesn't appear to link to any photo ... go on, give us a clue as to what we're missing ;-) This is my personal account, not the PH Flickr or anything. I pay Photobucket to host these photos and then it deletes them or removes the links - great... I think this appears on the Disused Stations site also: http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/h/hawick/index87.shtml 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
62440 Posted December 27, 2013 Share Posted December 27, 2013 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-25364686 Article on the S and C with a Waverley Express train photo. What might have been had the Waverley Route survived a few more years? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted December 30, 2013 Author Share Posted December 30, 2013 Pastoral Hawick trackbed.... Over Mill Path, under Wellogate Brae - the Teri topography is hillier than people would believe if you reproduced it on a model! http://www.railbrit.co.uk/imageenlarge/imagecomplete.php?id=45776 Immediately south from here, the line runs along the precipitous retaining wall behind now-demolished mills. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
62440 Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 And here's an old postcard of the bridge being used as an advantage point during the Common Riding. Bruce. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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