Archaeology Notes

Event ID 856269

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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The station is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Edinburghsire, 1854, sheet 13) and the Object Name Book of the Ordnance Survey describes it as 'A station for passengers and goods on the Edinburgh and Hawick branch of the North British Railway' and as 'A station for passengers... immediately adjoining the Village of Gorebridge'.

Name Book 1852

The station building is now Porter's, a public house and restaurant. The footbridge has been removed.

Opened in 1847 as part of the Edinburgh to Hawick Branch Railway, closed in 1969.

Information from RCAHMS (DE), July 2006.

R J V Butt 1995

Photographed in 2007 as part of a survey of Waverley Line remains in advance of proposed rebuilding of the railway and to enhance and augment the existing holdings of the National Monuments Record Scotland.

Information from RCAHMS (DE), April 2007.