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.

During 1999 we gathered 17,000 signatures calling for a new railway to and through the Central Borders. The petition was presented to the Scottish Parliament's Public Petitions Committee, and CBR subsequently gave evidence to the Scottish Parliament's Waverley Railway Bill Committee, arguing the case for the Edinburgh-Galashiels-Tweedbank railway.

At an historic debate in June 2006, the Scottish Parliament then 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.