Join the Mission

This is not my fight, I'm not Scottish by birth (although distantly related to the Buccleughs), but I love walking, and I think the old railway lines should be ideal for walkers and particularly the disabled as they are basically flat. Please join me if you are a walker who knows these routes or anyone with an interest in preserving the finest industrial heritage in the Borders. Send me your details and I will acknowledge all contributors and bless you for helping. If you have pictures of Borders railway walks, bridges, stations or anything send them and I will publsih.

West of Gordon

This is a short walk but pleasant. Unfortunately the entrance by the railway bridge is overgrown and obviously unused. The walk starts to the left of the old station house going out of Gordon towards Edinburgh. The main road crosses an old bridge. Fortunately there is a gated access just before the bridge opposite and ideal place to park on an extended verge. The walk is interrupted by what I suppose might have been a tunnel, its hard to judge, so one has to walk off track for a while. Just past this there is a secondary walk left which brings one back to the Church in Gordon. Continuing is difficult as again a bit overgrown and it terminate of course where the A6105 crosses the railway as the bridge there was dismantled for the road. There should be a good walk the other way going East, but the owners of the old station house have been quite naughty and closed off access with gates. This is an unfair and bad practice and I am trying to get an understanding from The Borders Council of how legal it really is as these railways were all owned by taxpayers.

East of Gordon towards Greenlaw

The map shows the railway as a faint line North of the A6105 Gordon to Greenlaw road. The entry is not signed but is just before a row of cottages on the left side coming from Gordon. The other photo shows the old railways sign. One can walk from here East or West but the West path is difficult and at Station Road in Gordon has ben blocked by what I think is illegal fencing and buildings. To the East however one can walk to Greenlaw if one has the time and energy. There are views to the Lammermuirs