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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 658681
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/658681
NT40NE 56.06 from 4984 0953 to NT 5046 1079
Falls on map sheets and NT 51SW
Little survives of a tramway that is depicted on the Revision edition of the OS 6-inch map (Roxburghshire, sheet, c.1920, sheet xxxii), running from exchange sidings (NT51SW 187.13), to the W of the main railway to Hawick (NT 50395 10671) to the NW side of the main camp at Stobs (NT 4984 0953). The tramway was used to assist with the supply of material to the camp.
Traces of the tramway are visible on vertical air photographs (106G/Scot/UK 433, 3205-3208, flown 24 June 1945), including the S-bend to the SE of Acreknowe farmsteading. The section immediately NW of the main camp had by the date of the air photogrpahs been destroyed by World War Two expansion. Part of the course of the tramway is also visible on oblique air photogrpahs taken in 1991 (J Dent, Scottish Borders Council).
The tramway linked to a site annotated as the 'Meldrum Destructor' at c.NT 5022 0982, though it is not known what this structure was for.
Information from RCAHMS (DE), March 2006
