Old Travel Blog Photograph Steam Locomotive Railway Station Riccarton Junction Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of a steam locomotive in the railway station at Riccarton Junction in the county of Roxburghshire in the Scottish Borders of Scotland. The settlement of Riccarton, which adjoins the station, consisted, in 1959, of around thirty houses, with at least one member of each household working for British Railways, which had a civil engineers depot near the station. The isolated position of Riccarton and the need to provide for the villagers may have been one reason why the station remained open until the late 1960s, as by this time ordinary public traffic was virtually non existent. The branch line from Riccarton Junction to Kielder and Hexham was closed 15 October 1956. The Waverley Route to Edinburgh was closed on 6 January 1969.



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