The Borders Railway re-opened on Sunday 6th September 2015.  In line with Scottish Transport Appraisal Guidance (STAG) and the Guidance on the Evaluation of Rail Projects, this research provides the Stage 1 Evaluation of the re-opening of the line.  To inform the development of the Stage 1 Evaluation a primary data collection exercise was completed comprising an on-train survey of users of the Borders Railway and a telephone survey of non and one-off users based within the Scottish Borders/Midlothian. In addition, a number of secondary data analysis tasks were undertaken including a review of ticket sales and passenger count data and an analysis of public transport access.  In total, 1,112 responses were received to the User Survey and 227 responses were received to the Non-user Survey.