THE ARCH COMPANY AWARD FOR URBAN HERITAGE: BERWICK-UPON-TWEED

The building of the station in Berwickupon-Tweed in the 1840s was contentious, as it lay on top of the castle ruins.

Some seven decades later it was no longer adequate, so the North British Railway planned a new one - only for the First World War and Grouping to intervene. So it was left to the new LNER to implement what were largely NBR designs.

Ninety years on, a different LNER company, together with Network Rail, have effectively repaired and modernised both the structure and customer facilities over the past five years - work which we have been able to see and commend.

Now with its final entry this year of new railings, we felt able to judge this fine station as a whole and give it a welldeserved award.

A CrossCountry DMU sits at the island platform, showing both the fine range of buildings there and the main building unusually separated from the platforms.