Stobs Camp Sidings, Railway Exchange Sidings And Signal Box
Railway Siding(S) (20th Century), Signal Box (20th Century)
Site Name Stobs Camp Sidings, Railway Exchange Sidings And Signal Box
Classification Railway Siding(S) (20th Century), Signal Box (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) The Waverley Line; Acreknowe
Canmore ID 284421
Site Number NT51SW 187.13
NGR NT 50511 10875
NGR Description From NT 50645 11222 to NT 50374 10584
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/284421
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Cavers
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Roxburgh
- Former County Roxburghshire
NT51SW 187.13 50645 11222 to 50374 10584
The railway sidings and headshunt for Stobs Military Camp is situated on the W side of The Waverley Line (RLY 4) immediately NE of Acreknowe farmsteading. The sidings lay NE to SW with the headshunt running NW alongside the main railway at a higher level to a point immediately S of a rock cutting.
A signal box (NT 50533 10860 ), built to control the trailing junction (at NT 50529 10874), was situated on the E side of the main line. The sidings made a connection with the Stobs Camp internal tramway system via a transfer platform at c.NT 50395 10671.
The sidings and signal box are visible on vertical air photographs taken inJune 1945 (106G/UK 433, 3207-3208, flown 24 June 1945), April 1946 (106G/Scot/UK 19, 3396-3397, flown 15 April 1946) and March 1948 (CPE/Scot/319, 1252, flown 18 March 1948), but had been removed by the date of the Ordnance Survey sortie of March 1965 (OS/65/4, 257-259, flown 29 March 1965).
Information from RCAHMS (DE), November 2006
