Abington is a village in the
Scottish council region of
South Lanarkshire
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close to the
M74 motorway, marking the point where it changes name to the A74(M), following the upgrade of the former
A74 road. The
West Coast Main Line
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between
Glasgow
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and
London
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also emerges from the
Clyde Valley at this point and begins its ascent up
Beattock Summit, alongside the motorway. Abington was at one time served by a station on the railway, but this was closed as a result of the
Beeching cuts
The Beeching cuts (also Beeching Axe) was a plan to increase the efficiency of the nationalised railway system in Great Britain. The plan was outlined in two reports: ''The Reshaping of British Railways'' (1963) and ''The Development of the M ...
of the 1960s.
There is a
post office
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in the village, as well the Upper Clyde Parish Church building.
The village gives its name to the
Abington services
Abington services is a motorway service station near the village of Abington, Scotland. The service station is located next to the M74 motorway and is accessed using motorway junction 13 in both the northbound and southbound directions. It is ...
, which lies about north and which is served by Stagecoach service X74 (Dumfries-Glasgow).
This also marks the point where the
A702 road meets the A74(M)/M74.
Between 1964 and 1991, the village was the location of a
Royal Observer Corps monitoring bunker, to be used in the event of a nuclear attack. It remains mostly intact.
See also
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List of places in South Lanarkshire
References
External links
Its entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland*
Villages in South Lanarkshire
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