Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Beattock, a village in Dumfries and Galloway, approximately 1⁄2 mile south west of Moffat and 19 miles north of Dumfries. The Southern Upland Way and the Annandale Way run close to the village. Beattock was historically served by the A74 road and the West Coast Main Railway Line, however the road has since been upgraded to the A74(M) motorway and no longer passes through the village. Beattock railway station was closed in 1972. Beattock Summit is the highest point on both the M74, and on the West Coast Main Line Railway within Scotland. The poet W. H. Auden's 1936 work Night Mail makes reference to the summit.
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