Just a year after CBR – together with Claudia Beamish MSP – persuaded Transport Minister Keith Brown that the Tweedbank station tracks should be extended to handle 12-coach tourist charter trains, there’s more good news on the campaigning front. Transport Scotland’s recent Draft Invitation to Tender for the ScotRail franchise reveals that CBR’s lobbying for […]

CBR’s latest press release trails the 2013 AGM & public meeting in Hawick on Wednesday 27th November and calls for a full feasibility study of extending the Borders Railway south from Tweedbank. See: Press_release_18_November_2013_AGM_HAWICK_EXTENSION

In advance of tomorrow’s SBC Planning Committee meeting, Nick Bethune, London Officer of CBR, has urged councillors to ensure that the proposed new road overbridge at Falahill provides sufficent width for future double-tracking of the railway: “I am writing to you on behalf of the Campaign for Borders Rail (CBR) about Network Rail’s planning application […]