Picture Gallery

Victoria Lodge station 1998 02.jpg

Tweed bridge with siding.jpg

Photo date - 1905. Siding with large buttress buffers in right corner.

Tweed bridge with siding 1998.jpg

Photo date - 1998. Compare with 1905 picture above.

Victoria Lodge memorial tablet.jpg

Picture taken in 1998 when Victoria Lodge was more or less derilect - building has been restored since then.

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.

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.

Heraldic shields and bridge.jpg

What was the designed purpose for these stones? (See Text)

heraldic shields 01.jpg

granite blocks near bridge..jpg

Granite blocks south of pile with the heraldic shields.

stones at vic lodge 02.jpg

tweed bridge 01.jpg

Tweedsmuir Railway Bridge - detail.jpg

The tablet above the arch still awaiting the Engraver's chisel?

tweed bridge 02.jpg

glenveg sheep crossing.jpg

sheep crossing near Victoria Lodge.jpg

The metal straing posts remain from the old railway fence line indicating the site of a sheep crossing.

Mossfennan sheep crossing.jpg

This is a rather grand structure for a hill-sheep crossing!

quarry site at gameshope.jpg

Whinstone was taken from here for the construction of the dam.

memorial tablet at victoria lodge.jpg

overgrown railway track bed at rachan view from b7102.jpg

railway bridge, west abutment..jpg

Victoria Lodge station 1998..jpg

Victoria Lodge between trees.