A plastic box, just visible at the base of the cairn, contains a Visitors’ Book. It explains that the cairn was dedicated in a ceremony held on 1st September 1937, attended by about 60 people. The plaque was unveiled by Sir Dan Godfrey, conductor of Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra. Also attending was the composer’s sister Janey Drysdale, who lived at the nearby cottage of the Hennel. She died in 1949, aged 87, following a fire at the cottage, which is now a roofless ruin.
The cairn was restored in the summer of 2008 by several people from Innerleithen, and the Visitors’ Book begun on 1st January 2009. Walter Baxter’s picture NT3331 : Memorial Cairn on heather moorland near Hannel Bog shows the cairn in 2006 before it was rebuilt.
Hedley Phillips reports that by April 2021 this railway carriage had been removed, probably as a result of the mass planting project of 296 hectares of mixed trees by the Traquair House Charitable Trust.