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Peebles railway station (1864) a former railway station in Peebles, Scotland built in 1864 Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about railway and public transport stations with the same name.
The Peebles Railway in 1855. As the Scottish railway network developed in the following years, the cost of transporting goods to and from towns connected to a line fell dramatically; and Peebles, and other towns not connected, felt at a marked disadvantage in the cost of the necessities of living, and in moving its manufactures to markets, and this heightened the feeling that Peebles must have ...
The station opened as Peebles on 1 October 1864 by the Peebles Railway. The station was situated at the end of Station Road. This station replaced the original so the line to Galashiels could be extended. Although the old station was used for goods, an additional goods station was built to the south of the passenger facilities on the down side.
The town was once served by the Symington, Biggar and Broughton Railway, which ran from the Caledonian Railway (now the West Coast Main Line) at Symington to join the Peebles Railway at Peebles. The station and signal box are still standing but housing has been built on the line running west from the station and the railway running east from ...
In years past, the Symington, Biggar and Broughton Railway had lines that connected Peebles to Edinburgh and Galashiels, with a goods station and Peebles and Peebles West stations. A connection to Edinburgh is maintained by Borders Buses service X62. Historically Peebles and the Scottish borders have been the location of many textile businesses.
Now negotiation resulted in the Caledonian allowing the NBR to build a line to Galashiels without opposition in Parliament; in return it could make a triangular junction with the NBR (Peebles Railway) line at Peebles, facing north and south. The extended line was opened as far as a separate station at Peebles on 1 February 1864, without ceremony.
Peebles railway station was the first site of the railway station in Peebles, Scottish Borders, Scotland from 1855 to 1962 on the Peebles Railway. History The ...
The station opened on 1 February 1864 by the Symington, Biggar and Broughton Railway. It opened eight months before the station of the same name. The goods yard, which had loading banks, a goods shed and a crane, was to the south. To the west was a locomotive shed with two roads. The signal box was to the north west.