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The Kelso Branch was a 23.5 miles (37.8 km) twin track branch railway in Northumberland, England and Berwickshire, Scotland that ran from Tweedmouth on the East Coast Mainline via seven intermediate stations and a junction with the Cornhill Branch to Kelso.
Authorised in 1845 the Kelso Branch was built North Eastern Railway to link the communities of the Tweed valley with the fledgling railway network at Tweedmouth. The line opened in two stages, to Sprouston on 27 July 1849, and to Kelso on 1 June 1851. In 1887 the Cornhill Branch was opened linking to the line just to the west of Coldstream station. The line provided part of an alternative route when the East Coast Main Line was blocked north of Tweedmouth most notably when in August 1948 when the main line was closed for three months.[1]
In 1955 all the stations on the line apart from Coldstream and Norham closed to passengers, and on 15 June 1964 passenger services were withdrawn along the whole line. Freight services followed suit the next year on 29 March with the line's closure.