Ruined and rebuilt school house at Riccarton Junction. Riccarton Junction was a railway village and station in a remote location on the former North British Railway Line, known as the Waverley Route, that was closed in 1969. At one time there was a population of about 120 with a school, schoolmaster's house, a small post office and shop. (Source: Border Railway Rambles by Alasdair Wham).