epw014319 ENGLAND (1925). The town, Longtown, 1925. This image has been produced from a copy-negative.

Railway bridge over River Esk: The Border Union Railway was the successful proposal of the North British Railway for a line from Carlisle to Hawick in opposition to the Caledonian Railway that had proposal a similar line. Authorised in 1859, it ran from Hawick to the Port Carlisle Railway, to the north of its Carlisle Canal terminus, with a branch from Longtown to Gretna. It was the final link in what was to become known as the ‘Waverley Route’, which opened in stages (from the Carlisle end) between October 1861 and July 1862. The line passed to the LNER in 1923, became nationalised in 1948, and was closed in 1969, apart from the section south of Longtown for goods to the army depot.