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Melrose Railway Station
Melrose Station was built in 1849 and the station house was designed to look like a country mansion. To protect its passengers from the weather the station platforms were covered with immense iron and timber canopies, of which that attached to the station house remains.
The station closed in 1969 and was rescued by local action leading to its reopening in 1986 with multiple uses. The former Melrose Railway station sits imposingly on a slope above the centre of the town, the station itself on two levels - the principal station building presents a Jacobean facade to the town centre while visitors can ascend a staircase up to the former up-platform covered by an elegant canopy featuring period enamel signs.
The down-platform and most of the track-bed no longer exist, sadly lost for ever beneath the A6091 Melrose bypass. The remaining station buildings have been refurbished and now contain a restaurant and a small museum.
See this website showing what the station used to look like.
Melrose Railway Station
Melrose Station was built in 1849 and the station house was designed to look like a country mansion. To protect its passengers from the weather the station platforms were covered with immense iron and timber canopies, of which that attached to the station house remains.
The station closed in 1969 and was rescued by local action leading to its reopening in 1986 with multiple uses. The former Melrose Railway station sits imposingly on a slope above the centre of the town, the station itself on two levels - the principal station building presents a Jacobean facade to the town centre while visitors can ascend a staircase up to the former up-platform covered by an elegant canopy featuring period enamel signs.
The down-platform and most of the track-bed no longer exist, sadly lost for ever beneath the A6091 Melrose bypass. The remaining station buildings have been refurbished and now contain a restaurant and a small museum.
See this website showing what the station used to look like.