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Architecture Notes

Event ID 855319

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/855319

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.

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