Earlston railway station, in the
Scottish Borders village of
Earlston
Earlston ( sco, Yerlston; gd, Dùn Airchill) is a civil parish and market town in the county of Berwickshire, within the Scottish Borders. It is on the River Leader in Lauderdale, Scotland.
Early history
Earlston was originally called ''Arc ...
, was a station on the now disused
Berwickshire Railway
The Duns Branch and the Berwickshire Railway together formed a through railway route from Reston, near Berwick-upon-Tweed, to St Boswells in the Scottish Borders. The line was promoted in two stages. The first was from Reston on the Edinburgh t ...
.There were two platforms (the location served as a passing loop) and two sidings, cattle dock and goods shed. The station closed to passenger traffic in 1948, and the last freight service operated on Friday 16 July 1965. The station closed completely, along with the line, on Monday 19 July 1965.
See also
*
List of closed railway stations in Britain
References
* http://www.railbrit.co.uk/Berwickshire_Railway/frame.htm
* https://web.archive.org/web/20080827163513/http://www.wrha.org.uk/maps_grads.html
External links
Earlston station on navigable 1926 O. S. map
Disused railway stations in the Scottish Borders
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1863
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1948
Former North British Railway stations
Earlston
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