The new dawn at Waverley

Stuart Montgomery
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The new dawn at Waverley
The new dawn at Waverley

The first train to depart from Edinburgh Waverley to Tweedbank in the Borders is seen in glorious sunshine waiting on platform 11 with hundreds of people who had queued for hours to see this moment. Class 170 number 414 is dressed in a special livery for the occasion and it was a pleasure to travel on this first train out of the Capital at 9.11am. Things had already started at the other end of the line and the first train from Tweedbank departed a little earlier at 8.45.

The line is the longest new domestic railway to be built in the UK for over a century and takes passengers on a 30-mile journey from Edinburgh through Midlothian to Tweedbank in the Scottish Borders.

The £294m construction project, delivered on time and on budget, re-establishes part of the former Waverley line, which fell victim to the controversial Beeching cuts on January the 6th 1969, leaving the Borders region without any access to the National Rail network.

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Taken on: September 6, 2015
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