Disused railway lines and closed stations in Scottish Borders

180 miles of disused railway
68 closed stations
4 stations open today
15 named lost lines

Scottish Borders has 180 miles of disused railway and 68 closed stations, against 4 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 17.0 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Peebles Branch, with 39 miles of its route inside Scottish Borders.

See Scottish Borders’s lost railways on the map

The map opens on the county with the disused lines and closed stations drawn over today’s network. Tap any closed station for its history, or any grey line for its name.

What is left of it

The 180 miles of lost railway in Scottish Borders break down as 166 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable and 14 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left. These are OpenStreetMap’s own distinctions, made by the people who surveyed each stretch, so a line can appear under more than one state along its length.

Lost railway lines in Scottish Borders

15 named lines with disused track in the county, longest stretch first. The mileage is the part inside Scottish Borders; a line crossing the border is counted on both sides.

Line	Miles in county
Peebles Branch	39
St. Boswells & Reston	21
Waverley Line	20
Kelso Branch	15
Carstairs & Dolphinton Branch	10
Lauder Light Railway	10
Talla Railway	6.9
Edinburgh to Carlisle Line	6.5
Border Counties Railway	5.3
Selkirk Branch	4.7
Jedburgh Branch	3.4
Eyemouth Branch	2.4
Whitrope Tunnel	0.7
East Coast Main Line	0.4
Rotary Way	0.4

Closed railway stations in Scottish Borders

All 68 closed and former stations in Scottish Borders, A to Z. Each name opens the map on the station; the Wikipedia link, where there is one, has its history.

Stations still open in Scottish Borders

4 stations in Scottish Borders still have a train service. The busiest are Tweedbank (405,824 a year), Galashiels (309,374 a year), Stow (74,988 a year) and Reston (29,896 a year). Every one has its own page, with the stations you can reach from it directly and how often the trains run: see the A to Z of stations.

Lost railways nearby

Midlothian, East Lothian, Northumberland, Edinburgh, West Lothian, South Lanarkshire, Falkirk and Dumfries and Galloway.

About these figures

The disused lines are the stretches OpenStreetMap records as disused, abandoned, razed or dismantled railway, measured segment by segment and given to the county each segment lies in. The closed stations are Wikidata’s record of British railway stations no longer in service, kept where they are not within a few hundred metres of a station still open. The boundary is today’s council area, from the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024). Historic county lines were different, and a closed station a mile over the border is on the neighbouring page.

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