Picture Gallery > Talla Railway (21)
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Tweed bridge with siding.jpg
Photo date - 1905. Siding with large buttress buffers in right corner.
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Tweed bridge with siding 1998.jpg
Photo date - 1998. Compare with 1905 picture above.
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Victoria Lodge memorial tablet.jpg
Picture taken in 1998 when Victoria Lodge was more or less derilect - building has been restored since then.
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Railway Opening Ceremony, Victoria Lodge, 29th sept 1897.jpg
In the background top right is the Police Station - smoking chimneys. This is the present day Double Cottage which is now privately owned. In the top left can be seen the accomodation huts. These huts are not shown on the map of 1902/3 though the Police Station is shown.
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level crossing gate.jpg
Level crossing gate in present day use as a field gate. The location is not far from the railway crossing at Kingledores.
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Heraldic shields and bridge.jpg
What was the designed purpose for these stones? (See Text)
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granite blocks near bridge..jpg
Granite blocks south of pile with the heraldic shields.
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Tweedsmuir Railway Bridge - detail.jpg
The tablet above the arch still awaiting the Engraver's chisel?
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sheep crossing near Victoria Lodge.jpg
The metal straing posts remain from the old railway fence line indicating the site of a sheep crossing.
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Mossfennan sheep crossing.jpg
This is a rather grand structure for a hill-sheep crossing!
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