THE STORY OF THE BORDERS RAILWAY - A short film made in 2015 just before the opening of the line

Stuart Cameron produced and narrated a short documentary about the opening of the Borders Railway in 2015 after almost 50 years of no trains in the Scottish Borders.
Shot in Standard Definition.
This is available for the first time since it originally aired.
#bordersrailway #documentary #thestoryof

[@EM-yk1dw]

Why is there such a delay to extending the line to Carlisle and improving the existing infrastructure too? The passengers using the line have exceeded expectations, but then if you provide a railway people will use it.

[@mp999]

It's extraordinary, isn't it?! It has been proved that this project ticks all the boxes including the important "green" box but still both sides of the border won't push the button to make it happen. Since that documentary literally nothing has happened. No one is being held to account properly for this. It's not even on the Network Rail "to do" list for the next 10 years so we are probably looking at well past 2040 before we could realistically see trains running between Tweedbank and Carlisle.

[@EM-yk1dw]

@@mp999 Yes indeed the extension should be a priority.

[@caggywaggy8779]

Really good! Well done

[@michaelcampin1464]

If it wasnt for the diversity of the railways the UK would have been strangled by the German bombers during WWII

[@HS-wo8ti]

The beeching cuts are such a shame. There are a few sizeable towns that used to have good connections to other towns and cities via the railways but now you either have to drive or get a bus. It's ironic with the environmental push now as the trains serving those towns may have been a real asset. Those towns seem to have favoured building roads where the railway tracks were, so it is almost impossible to restore them.

Beeching's master was the then Minister of Transport Ernest Marples who held a large amount of shares in road & motorway construction, he wanted all goods traffic onto the roads for obvious reasons.