Archaeology Notes

Event ID 863769

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT24SE 78 25348 40746

North British Railway: not to be confused with Caledonian Railway Station at at NT 249 402 (NT24SW 83).

Later renamed Peebles East Station.

Nothing remains of Peebles (East) Station which was situated at the NE end of a cul-de-sac off Northgate at Dean Park. Built in red sandstone it was two storeyed, slated, with extensions to NW and SE. The station building stood on the W side of a single railway track. Two stone built flower beds which formerly were part of the floral display on the embankment on the E side of the station along with part of the brick base of the railway station footbridge have been noted on the E side of the A703 from Edinburgh, which now runs along the site of the railway track at this point. The goods yard and offices, now the town car park, were situated about 163m to the SE (NT24SE 139)

The first railway to Peebles opened in July 1855 and ran to a terminus in March Street (NT24SE 232). When the railway was extended in 1866 to Innerliethen and then Galashiels via Kilnknowe Junction on the Waverley Line, a station was built on the Dean Park site. The North British Railway then rebuilt the station in 1905 as seen on prints PB/1501-2. The station closed along with the 'Peebles Loop' in February 1962.

Information from RCAHMS (DE), March 2009