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Spango valley 380
Spango Valley is a steep sided valley to the west of Greenock, Scotland. A small river, the Spango Burn, runs through the valley.
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Spango Valley and Valleypark is connected by road (the A78) and through IBM railway station, opened in 1978 to serve the IBM factory. The electrified Inverclyde railway line between Glasgow Central and Wemyss Bay passes through Spango Valley (between Branchton and Inverkip stations, as does the A78 road.
From the 1950s Spango Valley was the site of a large factory manufacturing IBM computers; in the early 1980s the A78 at Spango Valley was substantially upgraded to dual carriageway to accommodate the increased traffic to and from the IBM complex.
The (now largely demolished) factory is no longer owned by IBM and the site was renamed Valleypark, with the intention of attracting other businesses to the site. In October 2016 IBM vacated Spango Valley although they still possess offices elsewhere in Greenock. What is now known as Valleypark was built in the flat base of the valley between the A78 road and the railway line. As of 2017 the site is completely unoccupied, and local police have warned the public not to enter the site as a number of fires have been started there.