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Bruce McCartney's Waverley Route: Greenlaw and the last train to Kelso

Easter 1965 and March 1968

See last train to Greenlaw for more on the Greenlaw line

	Between Earlston and Ravenswood
	Fans Loanend
	Propelling between Gordon and Earlston
	Gordon - looking towards Earlston from the road bridge
	Earlston
	Leaderfoot Viaduct
	Just rejoined the Waverley Route at Ravenswood Junction box
	Kelso station, March 1968. "Wink" Henry* watching the loco hook up before the last freight leaves Kelso.
	Maxton station with the freight returning to Kelso
	Sprouston station, March 1968.  The double track from Kelso to  Berwick was singled, and left for a few years after the closure of  the freight service from Kelso to Tweedmouth in March 1965

*"Wink" lived at  Newcastleton and worked on the "relief."  He told Bruce that he had worked over 150 different stations, level crossing, sidings etc. The normal Kelso BR employee (the only one by then) was in the guard's van with his fishing rod and was dropped off at Roxburgh viaduct.

for a map and further details on the line, see Ewan Crawford's excellent "Railscot" page: Berwickshire Railway and Kelso Branch

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