Peebles railway station was the first site of the railway station in

Peebles Peebles ( gd, Na Pùballan) is a town in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. It was historically a royal burgh and the county town of Peeblesshire. According to the 2011 census, the population was 8,376 and the estimated population in June 2018 wa ...

, Scottish Borders, Scotland from 1855 to 1962 on the

Peebles Railway The Peebles Railway was a railway company that built a line connecting the town of Peebles in Peeblesshire, Scotland, with Edinburgh. It opened on 4 July 1855, and it worked its own trains. The friendly North British Railway later promoted a l ...

History

The station opened on 4 July 1855 by the

. The station was situated on the north side of March Street. A goods shed was adjacent to the station. The goods yard had two sidings, one passing through the shed across March Street and the other stopping short of it. A single road engine shed opened with the line. When the line to Galashiels was planned to be extended, the site of the station would make this difficult so the PR decided that it would be advantageous to build a joint railway station with the Caledonian Railway. Negotiations failed with the CR so they built a new Peebles station to the east of Northgate. The new station still had one platform but it was longer. The new station opened on 1 October 1864 while the old station closed to passengers on the same day although it stayed open to goods traffic. The engine shed was also kept but a new road was added and a turntable was provided to the north. A new siding serving March Street mills was added in 1885. The old Peebles station was referred to as 'old station sidings' until the closure of the line on 5 February 1962. The station was blown down during a storm and the goods shed was demolished afterwards.

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Disused railway stations in the Scottish Borders Former North British Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1855 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1864 1855 establishments in Scotland 1962 disestablishments in Scotland {{Borders-railstation-stub