Haggis Highway: Old Railway Walk Traditional Cache
Lowland Haggi: Time for this to go.
Haggis Highway: Old Railway Walk
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The line was authorised in 1862, with a capital of £100,000 in £10 shares and £33,300 in loans. The line opened between Duns (where it formed a connection to the Reston and Duns branch of the North British Railway) and Earlston in November 1863. The remainder of the line to St Boswells opened in October 1865. The line was subsumed into the NBR in 1876.
Following the major flooding which peaked on 12 and 13 August 1948, passenger services were suspended between Duns and St.Boswells, pending repairs to the trackbed which was washed away between Duns and Greenlaw; as it happened, repairs were never carried out and the only traffic the line carried thereafter was freight between Greenlaw and St Boswells as well as the odd railtour. The section between Reston and Duns continued to carry passenger trains until 10 September 1951. The last service on the branch (a Greenlaw - Hawick goods working) operated on Friday 16 July 1965, and the line officially closed on Monday 19 July 1965.
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