Station Name: TWEEDMOUTHold1.jpg) The Berwick-Kelso-St Boswells passenger trains were one of the last strongholds of steam operation in north-east England and southern Scotland, and a single coach was usually sufficient for the few passengers. On 2 August 1962 the morning Berwick-upon-Tweed to St Boswells branch train stands at the down platform at Tweedmouth. The loco, which has just run round its Gresley brake composite coach, is BR standard 2MT 2-6-0 No.78048 built in November 1955 at BR Darlington works. After less than a decade in service she was withdrawn from 64G, Hawick shed, on 31 July 1964, and cut up at Motherwell Machinery and Scrap, Inslow Works, Wishaw, Lanarkshire in April 1965.The elegant, but grimy, stone building was constructed as the Station Hotel. Its exuberant architecture can be enjoyed: the shaped gables, lofty chimneystacks and two-storey canted bay windows. The glazed platform roofing was installed in 1906 by the North Eastern Railway to replace the trainshed.
Photo by David Pearson old26.jpg) Tweedmouth station on 7 April 1962. The morning train for St Boswells left Berwick at 9.56am, arriving at Tweedmouth at 9.59. The loco, No.78046 which drew the train from Berwick, is running around the single coach (SC21018 – from which this photograph was taken) to recouple and depart from Tweedmouth at 10.06am to continue to St Boswells. The old Tweedmouth North and new Tweedmouth signal boxes are seen ahead, the latter at the point where the train will bear left towards St Boswells. The new signal box was commissioned in December 1961 replacing Tweedmouth North and South boxes. ‘North’ box would be dismantled before September 1962. The 2MT 2-6-0 loco was built in October 1955 at BR Darlington works and allocated to 64G, Hawick shed. After only 11 years’ service she was withdrawn on 30 November 1966, by which time she was shedded at 64A St Margarets (Edinburgh). In June 1967 she was cut up by Arnott Young, Old Kilpatrick, Dunbartonshire.
Photo by Brian Johnson old63.jpg) On 7 April 1962 the 5.41pm train is about to leave the down platform at Tweedmouth for its journey to Berwick. The loco has drawn the single coach (SC21018) on a leisurely journey from St Boswells (scheduled to wait for 26 minutes at Kelso). At Tweedmouth the loco has run round and re-coupled to enable the train to travel in the opposite direction from which it had arrived. There were only two arrivals from St Boswells at this time, the other arriving at Tweedmouth at 9.30am. The 2MT 2-6-0 loco No.78048 was built in November 1955 at BR Darlington works. After less than a decade in service she was withdrawn from 64G, Hawick shed, on 31 July 1964, and cut up at Motherwell Machinery and Scrap, Inslow Works, Wishaw, Lanarkshire in April 1965. Beyond the up platform awning, Tweedmouth South signal box can be seen. It had been decommissioned in December 1961 when the new Tweedmouth box (behind the photographer) was brought into use.
Photo by Brian Johnson  This early 1960s view of Tweedmouth is one of the few found which shows passengers at the station. An LNER ‘running-out’ nameboard and a departing train can be seen.
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from Helen Campbell from Railways of Berwick and the Eastern Borders private Facebook group
old54.jpg) Tweedmouth station, looking north on 3 September 1962. The station buildings are on the down platform (left), constructed of stone and crowned by lofty chimneystacks. Although most of the gables were given a Jacobean character by being ‘shaped’, a less ornate design was used on the less conspicuous south-east gable. The glazed roofing on both platforms was added by the NER in 1906 to replace a twin-span trainshed. The colour light signals replaced semaphores in the ‘Heaton to Burnmouth re-signalling’ project which began in April 1960. In the background the new Tweedmouth signal box (commissioned in December 1961) can be seen at the junction where the Kelso and St Boswells line diverges to the left, and the ‘North’ box which it replaced has been removed.
Photo by K L Taylor / NERA collection old27.jpg) Tweedmouth station, looking south-west from the down platform on 8 September 1962. A down express is hurrying through the station (the 11.00am Kings Cross to Glasgow/Aberdeen), running late and hauled by A2 No.60519 ‘Honeyway’; an A4 was usually in charge of this train. The St Boswells-Berwick train, with No.78049 in charge, waits at the down platform, ready to leave for Berwick at 5.34pm behind the express which should call there eight minutes earlier. On the extreme right is the elaborate Station Hotel, built by the Newcastle & Berwick Railway, and the glazed roofing of the platform was added in 1906 to replace a twin-span trainshed. The other platform’s buildings are much less ambitious, the chimneystack of the waiting room being the only N&B contribution of note, adjoining the high screen wall which supports the glazed platform roofing, but its original purpose was to carry the trainshed. Heading the express, No.60519, A Thompson-designed 4-6-2, was built at the LNER Doncaster works in February 1947 and was originally numbered 519. She was withdrawn from 50A, York North shed, on 18 December 1962 and cut up at BR Doncaster works before the end of the month. On the St Boswells-Berwick train the BR standard 2MT 2-6-0 loco No.78049 was built at Darlington works in November 1955. After little more than a decade in service she was withdrawn from 64A, St Margarets shed (Edinburgh), on 31 August 1966, and cut up the following December at Motherwell Machinery and Scrap, Inslow Works, Wishaw, Lanarkshire. The photographer notes that by this time (summer 1962 timetable) the late-afternoon service from St Boswells stopped for only 17 minutes at Kelso – as opposed to 26 minutes in winter 1961-62 – while the Tweedmouth call was extended by two minutes. He also recalls that he was bemused to see an A3 (No.60087) on three non-corridor coaches, as a stopping train from Edinburgh: how the mighty had fallen!
Photo by Brian Johnson old24.jpg) In August 1963 No.60129 ‘Guy Mannering’ is seen beside Tweedmouth engine repair workshop which occupies what was originally the station’s goods shed. The locomotive was named after a novel by Walter Scott. The Peppercorn-designed 4-6-2 A1 loco was built at Doncaster works in February 1949, and was in service until 11 October 1965, latterly a resident of 50A, York North shed. In the following month the loco was cut up by A King & Sons of Norwich.
Photo from Railways of Berwick and the Eastern Borders private Facebook group old32.jpg) In November 1964 a V2 is seen alongside the 1850 shed at Tweedmouth.
Photo from Railways of Berwick and the Eastern Borders private Facebook group old30.jpg) The new Tweedmouth signal box, looking north c1964 from a down main line train. The Kelso and St Boswells line is branching to the left. The box, which carries a BR(NE) nameplate replaced Tweedmouth North and South boxes in December 1961 and is still in use in 2015.
Photo by Frank Spaven, courtesy of David Spaven old35.jpg)
A DMU and unidentified loco are seen in the 1850 shed at Tweedmouth circa early 1960s. Note the ramp up to the coal drops beside the shed.
Photo from Railways of Berwick and the Eastern Borders private Facebook group old12.jpg) Looking south-east from the up platform at Tweedmouth circa 1962. The former N&B goods warehouse (now in use as the loco repair shop) is seen, with the 1850 loco shed beyond.
Photo from John Mann collkection old29.jpg)
In May 1964, the month before Tweedmouth closed to passenger services, a down express is passing through the station.
Photo by Robin Barbour courtesy of Bruce McCartney
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