My mother, Madge Elliot, who has died aged 95, after 10 years of coping with Alzheimer’s disease, was a railway campaigner, tennis coach and local activist in Hawick, in the Scottish Borders.
She was propelled into public life in the late 1960s when, with assistance from the Rev Brydon Maben, she embarked on coordinating a campaign to save the Waverley railway route, which ran between Edinburgh Waverley and Carlisle Citadel via Hawick, from proposed closure.
