The New Waverley Railway

Ccopyright campaign for borders railway

The plan is to rebuild the old Waverley railway from Edinburgh as far as Galashiels (actually a rather overcrowded housing estate outside Melrose) in the next 10 years. Meanwhile the route is perhaps the finest walking on old railways in the Borders. It roughly parallels the A7 and the image shows the route.
there is a web site about the new line from which this image was taken
web site for borders railways campaign they are hoping to get the line extended back throough Hawick to Carlisle, but its taken 10 years to get this one approved, and work has not really started yet.