Walkerburn Station
Railway Station (19th Century)
Site Name Walkerburn Station
Classification Railway Station (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Walkerburn, Caberston Road, Railway Station
Canmore ID 144357
Site Number NT33NE 35
NGR NT 36069 36828
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/144357
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Innerleithen
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Tweeddale
- Former County Peebles-shire
NT35NE 35.00 36069 36828
Location formerly cited as NT 3607 3683.
NT33NE 35.01 35954 36803 goods shed
Formerly entered as NT0000 1710.
Station (disused) [NAT]
OS 1:10,560 map, 1964.
(Location cited as NT 361 368). Walkerburn Station, opened 1866 by the North British Railway. 2-platform through station where the single-storey main building with a wooden-platform front and cantilevered awning is on the up platform. There is a substantial rubble goods shed with an awning for road traffic.
J R Hume 1976
This intermediate station on the Galashiels-Peebles branch line of the (former) North British Rly was opened (by the Innerleithen and Galashiels Rly) on 15 January 1867. It closed to regular passenger traffic (with the line as a whole) on 5 February 1962.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 21 February 2000.
R V J Butt 1995.
Former Railway Station, 1866. Converted to a dwelling house in the 1980's; the platform and canopy removed. Harled with painted dressings, overhanging bracketed eaves, and vermiculated quoins.
K Cruft, J Dunbar and R Fawcett 2006.
