Archaeology Notes

Event ID 855567

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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The Object Name Book of the Ordnance Survey desc ribes Tynhead Railway Station as ' A station on the North British Railway Hawick branch and situated near to Tynehead farmhouse'.

Name Book 1852

Tynehead station building is situated at road level on the S side of the B6458 and E side of the railway.

Built of red sandstone with a slated roof, the building has, since the closure of the railway, been converted as a dwelling house.

Built sometime between 1847 and 1849 as single storey and L-shaped in plan in coursed sandstone with dressed ashlar surrounds. Additonally with long and short quoins and a base course.

The station platforms at track level were approached by sloping paths with concrete fence posts, some of which survive on the W side of the former trackbed.

Tynehead is situated on the crossroads of the B6367 and B6458 and the small village developed after the construction of the station. The station on the Falahill inlcine was built for the Edinburgh to Hawick Branch line opening in 1848 from Gorebridge. After 1862 the line became part of the Waverley Route, which finally closed in January 1969.

Visited by RCAHMS, August 2006

The platforms survive on both the up and down sides, although heavily overgrown. The passenger ramp down to the down side platform is extant with concrete posts on the E side most of the way down. The ramp on the up side has been buried under earth and rubble, a few of the concrete posts are visible at the lower S end.

The station building is a dwelling house with additional buildings and an extension to the S. The former wicket gate entrance is now a lengthened window, but the fixing holes for the gate are still visible. At eaves height on the W-facing elevation ais a ceramic telepgraph insulator.

Visited by RCAHMS (DE, JM), 13 May 2009