English: Unfinished Riccarton restoration
In the early years of the present century the Friends of Riccarton Junction commenced work on this former Waverley Route station between Hawick and Newcastleton and laid track adjacent to the large island platform. The only building surviving on the station site was that in the left distance, a former generator shed to provide electricity to the station and adjoining railway workers' village, which became famous for having no road access. The Friends restored this building as a clubhouse and exhibition room and also brought in the brake van and the telephone kiosk in the far distance. Unfortunately a change of management resulted in the scheme to gradually replace other station buildings — the platform had originally carried a branch of the Co-op and a post office as well as the usual station offices — ceased. Once again the station, whose last train had passed by in 1969, lapsed into a silent commune with nature, broken only by birdsong, the wind in the trees and the voices of occasional ramblers.