Stow 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 a ...

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

Lauder The former Royal Burgh of Lauder (, ) is a town in the Scottish Borders in the historic county of Berwickshire. On the Southern Upland Way, the burgh lies southeast of Edinburgh, on the western edge of the Lammermuir Hills. Etymology Alt ...

and village of

Stow of Wedale Stow of Wedale, or more often Stow, is a village in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland (historically in Midlothian), north of Galashiels. In the 2011 Census the population was 718. It is served by Stow railway station. The name The name St ...

Scottish Borders The Scottish Borders is one of 32 council areas of Scotland. It is bordered by West Lothian, Edinburgh, Midlothian, and East Lothian to the north, the North Sea to the east, Dumfries and Galloway to the south-west, South Lanarkshire to the we ...

, 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 railway infrastructure manager, infrastructure manager of most of the railway network in Great Britain. ...

and managed by

ScotRail ScotRail Trains Limited, trading as ScotRail (), is a Scottish train operating company that is publicly owned by Scottish Rail Holdings on behalf of the Scottish Government. It has been operating the ScotRail franchise as an operator of las ...

History

The original station at Stow was opened by the

North British Railway The North British Railway was one of the two biggest of the five major Scottish railway companies prior to the 1923 Grouping. It was established in 1844, with the intention of linking with English railways at Berwick. The line opened in 1846, ...

on 1 November 1848. Some timetables described the station as ''Stow for Lauder''. It was closed by

British Rail British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. Originally a trading brand of the Railway Executive of the British Transport Comm ...

on 6 January 1969. Stow station (and the line) reopened on 6 September 2015. The new construction work was undertaken by

BAM Nuttall BAM Nuttall Limited (formerly known as Edmund Nuttall Limited) is a construction and civil engineering company headquartered in Camberley, United Kingdom. It has undertaken road, rail, nuclear, and other major projects worldwide. It is a subsidia ...

. The station has two platforms, each of which can accommodate an eight coach train.

Services

As of the May 2023 timetable change, the station is served by a half hourly service between

Edinburgh Waverley Edinburgh Waverley (also known simply as Edinburgh; ) is the principal railway station serving Edinburgh, Scotland. It is the second busiest station in Scotland, after Glasgow Central. The station serves as the northern terminus of the East C ...

and

Tweedbank Tweedbank is a large village south-east of Galashiels in the Scottish Borders. It is part of the county of Roxburghshire. It is an outer suburb of Galashiels, on the other (eastern) side of the River Tweed. The population of Tweedbank at the la ...

. Previously some peak time trains continued to Glenrothes with Thornton. All services are operated by

. Rolling stock used: Class 158 ''Express Sprinter'' and Class 170 ''Turbostar''

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* * {{Railway stations served by Abellio Scotrail Borders Railway Railway stations in the Scottish Borders Former North British Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1848 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1969 Beeching closures in Scotland Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 2015 Railway stations served by ScotRail Reopened railway stations in Great Britain 1848 establishments in Scotland 1969 disestablishments in Scotland 2015 establishments in Scotland