Borders Railway, 25 September 2016

32 photos of a trip over the new Edinburgh - Tweedbank line behind 46100 Royal Scot. The railway runs in the course of the northern end of the Edinburgh - Carlisle Waverley route, closed in 1969. it is 35 miles long, single track with three crossing loops and opened on 6 September 2015. Reinstatement has cost £294 million, or nearly £1 million per mile. I have also included three photos of the Waverley route fragment still in use near Carlisle, and one of 66528, named after a veteran Borders Railway campaigner.

46100 Royal Scot, 1Z22, Edinburgh Waverley, Sun 25 September 2016 - 0933. ScotRail had run their Borders Railway steam specials every Sunday from 7 August. There were two trains each day, and the Scot had worked them all. 25 September was the last day of the season.

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46100 Royal Scot, 1Z22, Edinburgh Waverley, Sun 25 September 2016 - 0933. ScotRail had run their Borders Railway steam specials every Sunday from 7 August. There were two trains each day, and the Scot had worked them all. 25 September was the last day of the season.