Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Thankerton, a small village in South Lanarkshire. It is located between Biggar and Lanark. It is situated between Quothquan Law and Tinto, two local hills. To the west of Thankerton is a hamlet called Eastend, on the south edge of the Carmichael Estate, whose main house, Eastend House, was used by the Polish Army between August 1940 and May 1941. Thankerton railway station opened on15 February 1848; and closed on 4 January 1965. It was part of The Caledonian Railway main line in Scotland connected Glasgow and Edinburgh with Carlisle, via Carstairs and Beattock.
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