Architecture Notes

Event ID 864097

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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NT44SE 28.01 45612 44629

This intermediate station on the Edinburgh-Carlisle 'Waverley route' of the former North British Rly was opened by that company on 1 November 1848; it was noted as 'Stow for Lauder' in some timetables. The station closed to regular passenger traffic (with the line as whole) on 6 January 1969.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 7 June 2000.

R V J Butt 1995.

The Object Name Book of the Ordnance Survey describes 'Stow Railway Station' as ' A small dwelling house and offices houses are in good repair they are the property of the North British Railway Company and built by them for a dwelling house, booking office etc for the station master' (Name Book 1852).

The station house and booking office is situated on the E side of the trackbed about 55m N of a new school which has been built on the goods yard. Built of sandstone it has been converted to a dwelling house.

The station house was located on the up (Hawick/Carlisle) platform with the down (Edinburgh platform), only supplied with a small shelter. Both platforms have now been demolished or are covered by garden infill and the area forms part of a garden for a new house built across the trackbed immediately S of the road overbridge.

The railway goods yard and goods shed (NT44SE 28.03) was situated immediately S of the station building. The site of the yard has now been built over.

The station orignally opened as part of the Edinburgh to Hawick Branch railway.

Visited by RCAHMS (DE), July 2006

The area between the platforms also forms a garden for the station house. Immediately S of the small car park on the S side of the station building was the site of the goods shed and a footbridge which crossed the line at this point has also been removed.

Visited by RCAHMS (DE, JM), 19 August 2009