Classic route
Borders Railway
Edinburgh → Tweedbank · Scotland
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The Waverley Route reborn: Britain’s longest railway reopening in a century (2015), winding out of Edinburgh to Walter Scott’s Abbotsford.
Stations
- 0 kmEdinburgh Waverley
- 6 kmBrunstane
- 7 kmNewcraighall
- 9 kmShawfair
- 13 kmEskbank
- 15 kmNewtongrange
- 19 kmGorebridge
- 42 kmStow
- 53 kmGalashiels
- 56 kmTweedbank
The stations OpenStreetMap lists for this service, in order, with the distance along the line as drawn here. A train may skip some of them.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 20044145 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 5 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of train 83543
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
- See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it
Questions and answers
How long is the Borders Railway?
The Borders Railway runs 56 km from Edinburgh to Tweedbank.
How long does the Borders Railway take?
The fastest scheduled journey is ≈ 55 min for the 56 km. That is an average of 61 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 145 km/h.
Who runs the Borders Railway?
ScotRail.
How old is the Borders Railway?
The line has been in service since 2015. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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