Celebrate the re-opening of the Borders Railway - poetry competition

Scottish Borders Council and its creative writing magazine The Eildon Tree encourage poets aged eight and over to submit work inspired by the re-opening of the railway line between Edinburgh and Tweedbank in Scotland.

A cool prize for the best poem: a pair of Golden Tickets for the special train journeys from one of the three Scottish Borders railway stations at Tweedbank, Galashiels or Stow on Saturday 5 September.

Deadline is Friday 26 June 2015.

More about the Waverley Lines competition here http://www.scotborders.gov.uk/waverleylines

Railway poetry

Doing some research into renovating train carriages as part of preparation for a writing project...

Pictures courtesy of The Old Railway Station Heacham

Predictably this has led NOT to reams of notes but instead the desire to stay in an old railway station in West Norfolk here http://www.oldstationheacham.com/