View from ESE showing SSW and ESE fronts of platform awnings of main block, Melrose railway station

Description View from ESE showing SSW and ESE fronts of platform awnings of main block, Melrose railway station

Date 4/1/1969

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 698630

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Melrose Railway Station, Scottish Borders This station was opened in 1849 by the Edinburgh & Hawick Railway. Owing to the popularity of the novels of Sir Walter Scott, Melrose was already a popular tourist town, and the station built to serve it was correspondingly grand and fashionably designed, with matching buildings facing each other. This shows the building on the south-bound platform, with the masonry booking office, etc and agent's house to the rear, entered at basement level. The design of the awning does not look very effective, but it was fashionable in the late 1840s. In 1862 the Hawick branch was extended by the Border Union Railway to Carlisle, and a connection with the Midland Railway, giving the North British Railway a through route to England. This line closed in 1969. The south-bound platform building of Melrose station has been restored for multiple occupation. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/69/2/34

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