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The Association | Waverley Route Heritage Association
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Waverley Route Heritage Association. BRINGING RAILS BACK TO THE BORDERS. Find out more about the Waverley Route Heritage Association. Click on a link below. You can also download our information leaflet here. To print out, which includes a membership form. (Correct at Sep 2015). The Committee of the Waverley Route Heritage Association. Vice Chairman – Duncan Thomas. Secretary – Bill Renwick. Membership Secretary – Jim Dick. Environmental Officer – Joe Taylor. Education Officer – Alan Maule.
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Appeals | Waverley Route Heritage Association
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Waverley Route Heritage Association. BRINGING RAILS BACK TO THE BORDERS. SOS SPONSOR OUR SLEEPERS! For 25 you can sponsor individual sleepers which will help extend the sidings and running line. Track Panels SPONSOR ONE TODAY. Individual track panels can be sponsored at 400 for a 60 feet long panel. This is the ideal way to help out the organisation extend the running line and sidings. Ballast Appeal CAN YOU SPONSOR A TONNE? Waverley Route Heritage Association. Track and Ballast Appeal. Please make chequ...
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Campaigns | English Regional Transport Association
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English Regional Transport Association. Voluntary membership-based, pro-public transport improvement association. For a reopening of the Bedford-Northampton (Cobbler) Line. For a reopening of Ampthill Station. For a Kempston Retail Park Station on the Bletchley-Bedford Line. Bedford-Bletchley (Marston Vale) Railway Agenda. A New Station for Roade. Supporting the East-West Rail Project (including-Bedford -Sandy-Cambridge) Please see external site East West Rail. For a Rebuilding of the Great Central Line.
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Find Us | Waverley Route Heritage Association
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Waverley Route Heritage Association. BRINGING RAILS BACK TO THE BORDERS. How to find us at Whitrope. WHITROPE, HAWICK, ROXBURGHSHIRE. TD9 9TY. From the south / west. At Hawick (A7), find the southern end of the High Street, and take the cobbled road (B6399) signposted Newcastleton. Carry on along this road, and after around 7 miles you will pass Shankend Viaduct on your right. Keep going a further 4 miles, and pull in at the large blue WHITROPE HERITAGE CENTRE sign on your right. The Border Railway Bills.
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Early correspondence & rivalry | Waverley Route Heritage Association
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Waverley Route Heritage Association. BRINGING RAILS BACK TO THE BORDERS. Early correspondence & rivalry. Sources include contemporay newspaper articles along with original handwritten letters. We start in late 1857 with a letter from John Scott Chisholme of Hawick, the chairman of the proposed Langholm route. HAWICK AND CARLISLE RAILWAY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE EDINBURGH ADVERTISER. [ 20th November 1857 ]. SIR, – In the last number of. Even the first half-mile. Of the line from Hawick, I have not yet heard ...
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About | Waverley Route Heritage Association
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Waverley Route Heritage Association. BRINGING RAILS BACK TO THE BORDERS. Welcome to the Waverley Route Heritage Association web site. Should you not already know about our interest in this fascinating railway line, please let us outline some of the background of the Association and some of our intentions. Also preserved are the personal accounts of life and work on the railway, in both written and oral form. Larger items include bridge plates, in some cases still attached to part of the bridge follow...
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The Border Railway Bills | Waverley Route Heritage Association
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Waverley Route Heritage Association. BRINGING RAILS BACK TO THE BORDERS. The Border Railway Bills. A second piece from the archive sees the rivalry over the proposed routes from Carlisle to Hawick descend to Westminster, from March 1859, and a report from the Select Committee Proceedings. PROCEEDINGS BEFORE THE SELECT COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1859. The Committee of the House of Commons sat again to-day. Cross-examined. I think the engineering features of the Langholm line ...
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Photograph Archive | Waverley Route Heritage Association
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Waverley Route Heritage Association. BRINGING RAILS BACK TO THE BORDERS. A SELECTION OF IMAGES FROM THE WRHA PHOTO ARCHIVE. We also have a poem (above), written by Watt Henry, that was given to us by Alan Murray, one of the Newcastleton gang who carried out track maintenance between Whitrope and Riddings Junction during the last few years of the Waverley Route. Please click to enlarge. Early correspondence & rivalry. The Border Railway Bills. Border Union Railway Co. Campaign for Borders Rail.
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Merchandise | Waverley Route Heritage Association
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Waverley Route Heritage Association. BRINGING RAILS BACK TO THE BORDERS. YOU CAN NOW ORDER DVDS and BOOKS ABOUT THE WAVERLEY ROUTE and ITS BRANCH LINES DIRECTLY FROM THE WAVERLEY ROUTE HERITAGE ASSOCIATION. Please take time to look at our stock, AN ORDER FORM CAN BE DOWNLOADED HERE. Or you can order online using Paypal which is now being integrated into our online shop and Whitrope Emporium. If you do not have a Paypal account simply click the Paypal option to allow payment using a credit or debit card.
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