SIR, As a former railwayman, I was a track worker, it seem’s like Scottish Borders Council’s proposals to build a home for the Holyrood Tapestry at Tweedbank is perhaps rather late in the day because they have realised that there will be few off peak passengers on the Borders Railway travelling south of Midlothian.
I reckon that if say the Tapestry attracted 50,000 visitors a year, then perhaps 20 per cent, around 10,000, will come via rail and the rest mostly via car, certainly few if any visitors from south of here where the biggest tourism market is, will head to Edinburgh then south to the Borders on a train.
What I fail to understand is how SBC hope to raise up to £5 million for the home of the Tapestry when they had to end the garden waste collection to save £400,000 as the maths simply don’t stack up!
How many more great magical and expensive ideas will SBC come out with over the coming years to get passengers for a railway that will be a white elephant as far as passengers travelling south of Midlothian is concerned.
I am, etc.
Roy Brown Murray Place Selkirk
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