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Tweedsmuir
 The village of Tweedsmuir is approximately 38 miles south-west of
Edinburgh on the A701. It is 6 miles south of Broughton and 12 Miles
north of Moffat.
John Buchan, The first Lord Tweedsmuir, was born in Perth Scotland in 1875. He had an interesting
and very varied life as a diplomat, barrister, journalist, historian,
poet, novelist and was Governor General of Canada where he died in
1940. The Tweedsmuir Provincial National Park in northern British
Columbia is named after him.
The Talla railway was laid from the Caledonian Railway station in
Broughton to the site of the construction of the Talla Reservoir at
Tweedsmuir. Construction commenced in 1885 and the railway was used to
transport men and materials to the reservoir site.
Content and image supplied by kind permission of Mr Anthony J.B. Hope. |
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