Architecture Notes
Event ID 855319
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
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NT43NE 100.00 49471 36156
NT43NE 100.01 NT 4943 3622 Signal Box.
NMRS REFERENCE:
The Object Name Book of the Ordnance Survey (ONB) describes 'Galashiels Station (railway)' as Built with stone and having the usual railway travelling conveniences (waiting rooms etc), within it and sheds etc for goods attached'.
The station was enlarged between the dates of the OS 1st edition 6-inch map (Roxburghshire, 1854, sheet iii) and the 2nd edition of 1899 to include additional sidings and platforms after the completion of the Peebles Loop line..
Name Book 1854
Station opened 20/2/1849
Station closed 6/1/1969
The station building, platforms and all associated structures have been removed, the site is now being developed.