Publication Account

Date 1998

Event ID 1019262

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1019262

The opening of the railway that transformed the town figure 15. One of the few remaining original railway buildings in Scotland, Melrose north platform is still standing and retaining much of its former dignity, although now fronting onto the by-pass instead of the Waverley line. Opened in 1849, the town was now to become a major visitor attraction and a home for people who worked as far afield as the capital. This upsurge in the town's prosperity is reflected not only in the expanded townscape, but also in the later nineteenth-century buildings that sit with their older counterparts in the historic core of Melrose.

Information from ‘Historic Melrose: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1998).