Welcome

Welcome to the website of the Campaign for Borders Rail. CBR is a grassroots campaign, formed in 1999 to make the case for restoring rail to the Borders – the only region of Britain without passenger trains.

We played a major part in the successful campaign for restoration of the railway to Tweedbank, presenting a 17,000 signature petition to the Scottish Parliament's Public Petitions Committee, and giving evidence to the Scottish Parliament's Waverley Railway Bill Committee. At an historic debate in June 2006, the Scottish Parliament approved the Waverley Railway (Scotland) Act, including Borders stations at Stow as well as Galashiels and Tweedbank – a key campaign success for CBR and the people of Stow.

The tendering process for the new railway is now underway, and a turf-cutting ceremony performed near Galashiels on 3rd March 2010 by Stewart Stevenson, Transport Minister, triggered the start of advance engineering works to divert utilities in preparation for the new railway.

We invite you to join us in one last push to ensure that we get the best possible Borders Railway by 2014 – with even faster journey times, provision for tourist charter trains, and a new focus on the ‘community’ dimension of the railway.

Sarah Nelson of CBR has just added two documents to the Project Progress section titled '20 Reasons' and 'Great Ideas and Initiatives'.