 After nationalisation in 1948, usage of the station gradually declined; by 1960, only a single train to and from Newcastle called each weekday, along with two in each direction on the Kelso and Newtown St Boswells branch line.British Railways closed the station to passengers on 15 June 1964 (along with the Kelso branch), a victim of the Beeching Axe.The loco shed suffered a similar fate two years later, though goods traffic continued to be handled until October 1984.