Abington railway station

Abington railway station was a station which served Abington, in the Scottish county of South Lanarkshire. It was served by local trains on what is now known as the West Coast Main Line. There is now no station convenient for Abington.

Abington
Location	Abington, South Lanarkshire Scotland
Coordinates	55.492°N 3.6856°W
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Caledonian Railway
Pre-grouping	Caledonian Railway
Post-grouping	London Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
15 February 1848	Station opens
4 January 1965	Station closes

History

The station was opened by the Caledonian Railway on 15 February 1848 when it opened the line from Carlisle to Carstairs.[1][2]

The station had two through platforms connected by a footbridge, several sidings and a goods shed, the yard was equipped with a 3 ton crane and was able to accommodate live stock, horse boxes and cattle vans.[3][4] In 1850 the station saw four passenger trains in each direction (two on Sundays) providing easy routes to Carlisle, Glasgow Central and Edinburgh Princes Street.[5]

The station was host to a LMS caravan in 1935 and 1936 and possibly one in 1937.[6] The station closed on 4 January 1965 when the local passenger services were withdrawn.[1][7]

Since 6 May 1974 the line through the station site has been electrified with overhead wires at 25 kV AC.[8] The station site is now the location of passing loops to enable slower trains to be overtaken, there is an engineers yard on the west side of the line.[9]

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Crawford Line open; Station closed		Caledonian Railway Main Line		Lamington Line open; Station closed

References

Notes

1. Butt 1995, p. 13.
2. Thomas & Paterson 1984, p. 73.
3. "Abington station on OS 25inch map Lanarkshire XLIII.13 (Crawford; Crawfordjohn; Lamington and Wandel)". National Library of Scotland. 1910. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
4. RCH (1904) 1970, p. 13.
5. Bradshaw 2012, pp. 96 & 97.
6. McRae 1997, p. 22.
7. Hurst 1992, p. 33 (ref 1579).
8. British Railways Board 1974, p. 25.
9. Yonge 2001, p. 10b.

Sources

• Bradshaw, George (2012) [March 1850]. Bradshaw's Rail Times for Great Britain and Ireland March 1850: A reprint of the classic timetable complete with period advertisements and shipping connections to all parts. Midhurst: Middleton Press. ISBN 9781908174130.
• British Railways Board (1974). Electric All The Way (PDF).
• Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
• Hurst, Geoffrey (1992). Register of Closed Railways: 1948-1991. Worksop, Nottinghamshire: Milepost Publications. ISBN 0-9477-9618-5.
• McRae, Andrew (1997). British Railway Camping Coach Holidays: The 1930s & British Railways (London Midland Region). Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part One). Foxline. ISBN 1-870119-48-7.
• The Railway Clearing House (1970) [1904]. The Railway Clearing House Handbook of Railway Stations 1904 (1970 D&C Reprint ed.). Newton Abbot: David & Charles Reprints. ISBN 0-7153-5120-6.
• Thomas, John; Paterson, Rev A. J. S. (1984). A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain. VI Scotland: The Lowlands and the Borders (2nd ed.). Newton Abbott, Devon: David & Charles. ISBN 0-9465-3712-7. OCLC 12521072.
• Yonge, John (2001). Jacobs, Gerald (ed.). Railway Track Diagrams: Scotland and the Isle of Man (4th ed.). Quail Map Company. ISBN 1-898319-51-0.

Further reading

• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.

External links

• RAILSCOT on Caledonian Railway
• Abington railway station on navigable O.S. map