Galashiels is a railway station on the

Borders Railway The Borders Railway connects the city of Edinburgh with Galashiels and Tweedbank in the Scottish Borders. The railway follows most of the alignment of the northern part of the Waverley Route, a former double-track line in southern Scotland ...

, which runs between and . The station, situated south-east of Edinburgh Waverley, serves the town of

Galashiels Galashiels (; sco, Gallae, gd, An Geal Àth) is a town in the Scottish Borders with a population of around 12,600. Its name is often colloquially shortened to "Gala". The town is a major commercial centre for the Borders region with extensive ...

in Scottish Borders, Scotland. It is owned by

Network Rail Network Rail Limited is the owner (via its subsidiary Network Rail Infrastructure Limited, which was known as Railtrack plc before 2002) and infrastructure manager of most of the railway network in Great Britain. Network Rail is an "arm's leng ...

and managed by ScotRail.

History

The station was opened on 20 February 1849 by the

Edinburgh and Hawick Railway The Waverley Route was a railway line that ran south from Edinburgh, through Midlothian and the Scottish Borders, to Carlisle. The line was built by the North British Railway; the stretch from Edinburgh to Hawick opened in 1849 and the remaind ...

, which later became known as the

Waverley Route The Waverley Route was a railway line that ran south from Edinburgh, through Midlothian and the Scottish Borders, to Carlisle. The line was built by the North British Railway; the stretch from Edinburgh to Hawick opened in 1849 and the remaind ...

. The line was nicknamed after the popular ''

Waverley Novels The Waverley Novels are a long series of novels by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832). For nearly a century, they were among the most popular and widely read novels in Europe. Because Scott did not publicly acknowledge authorship until 1827, the se ...

'', written by

Sir Walter Scott Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish novelist, poet, playwright and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature, notably the novels '' Ivanhoe'', '' Rob Roy' ...

. Upon completion on 1 July 1862, the line ran from Carlisle to

Edinburgh Waverley Edinburgh Waverley railway station (also known simply as Waverley; gd, Waverley Dhùn Èideann) is the principal railway station serving Edinburgh, Scotland. It is the second busiest station in Scotland, after Glasgow Central. It is the north ...

via

Hawick Hawick ( ; sco, Haaick; gd, Hamhaig) is a town in the Scottish Borders council area and historic county of Roxburghshire in the east Southern Uplands of Scotland. It is south-west of Jedburgh and south-south-east of Selkirk. It is one ...

, covering a distance of . The station, along with the line, was closed by British Rail on 5 January 1969. Following the opening of the

on 6 September 2015, the line was extended south-east from

Newcraighall Newcraighall ( sco, Newcraighauch, gd, Talla na Creige Nuadh) is a South-Eastern suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland. A former mining village, its prosperity was based on the Midlothian coalfields. The Newcraighall pit was known as 'Klondyke' and ...

Tweedbank Tweedbank is a large village south-east of Galashiels in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. It is part of the county of Roxburghshire. It is an outer suburb or satellite development of Galashiels, on the other (eastern) side of the River Tweed. T ...

. The current station is located slightly to the north of the original.

Services

As of the May 2021 timetable change, the station is served by an hourly service between

and

, with a half-hourly service operating at peak times (Monday to Saturday). Some peak time trains continue to Glenrothes with Thornton. All services are operated by ScotRail. Rolling stock used: Class 158 ''Express Sprinter'' and Class 170 ''Turbostar''

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* Railway stations in the Scottish Borders Former North British Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1849 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1969 Beeching closures in Scotland Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 2015 Borders Railway Railway stations served by ScotRail Reopened railway stations in Great Britain 1849 establishments in Scotland 1969 disestablishments in Scotland 2015 establishments in Scotland Galashiels {{Borders-railstation-stub