Archaeology Notes

Event ID 851583

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT51SW 187.13 50645 11222 to 50374 10584

The railway sidings and headshunt for Stobs Military Camp is situated on the W side of The Waverley Line (RLY 4) immediately NE of Acreknowe farmsteading. The sidings lay NE to SW with the headshunt running NW alongside the main railway at a higher level to a point immediately S of a rock cutting.

A signal box (NT 50533 10860 ), built to control the trailing junction (at NT 50529 10874), was situated on the E side of the main line. The sidings made a connection with the Stobs Camp internal tramway system via a transfer platform at c.NT 50395 10671.

The sidings and signal box are visible on vertical air photographs taken inJune 1945 (106G/UK 433, 3207-3208, flown 24 June 1945), April 1946 (106G/Scot/UK 19, 3396-3397, flown 15 April 1946) and March 1948 (CPE/Scot/319, 1252, flown 18 March 1948), but had been removed by the date of the Ordnance Survey sortie of March 1965 (OS/65/4, 257-259, flown 29 March 1965).

Information from RCAHMS (DE), November 2006