Telling Midlothian tales about the Borders Railway

Bruce C Ball with his new book "The Spirit of The Borders Railway" photographed at Newtongrange Station by Scott Louden.

An author from Roslin has released a book comprising tales of the recently re-opened Borders Railway.

Bruce Ball’s book The Spirit of the Borders Railway was released on May 30 and gives a local slant, featuring interviews with people from Midlothian. Bruce himself has a connection with the line, having been given special permission to take a stroll with his wife Louise along Lothianbridge Viaduct in 2013, 28 years after a failed marriage proposal there due to a fence blocking them.

Speaking about why he wrote this book, Bruce said: “It’s mainly because I have spent so much time looking at the route and taking lots of photographs of it, and I didn’t know what else to do with all this information I had on it.