Glasgow to Largs with an awesome sunset.

This is a route that I’ve been wanting to do for years now but didn’t think it would be possible on my road bike. For this cycle I used the NCN 75 from Glasgow towards Paisley going through Pollok park and along the white cart water. There is a railway bridge that goes over the white cart water that is over 200 years old. It was originally built to carry the paisley canal over it and was built in 1809. After this I talk passionately about the cycle network and how it uses old railway paths to create a linear park that stretches for miles connecting so many people. later on I talk about the lost 17 public artwork that’s just outside Kilmacolm and how it is the lost 17th Roman imperial army. The more information I find out about the Roman empire the more I want to know about it. When I get past Kilmacolm I then take an on road route up towards Gryffe reservoirs and loch Thom. This is where I find out that the terrain definitely isn’t suitable for a road bike but its so nice a route and worth the risk. There is also a good wee bit of climbing here as well. when I get to the loch I notice that there is a possibility of a great sunset when I get to Largs. When heading towards there we can see the island of Arran and Goatfell its biggest peak and one that I’ve yet to climb but always idolised from listening to the great Glasgow band Scheme and the song that’s named after the mountain. This was a great cycle and my longest and most rewarding of 2024 so far hopefully many more to come this year!

The White cart bridge/Blackhall viaduct hardly gets a mention in any website about old railway bridges. This could possibly be because it was a canal bridge before and that it was widened for the railway.

https://www.railscot.co.uk/locations/B/Blackhall_Viaduct/

the lost 17 segment

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/lost-legion-xvii

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And plan is is to get to LS and get the train home should be a should be getting dark by the time I get there so this should be fun I’m going stay on the cycle path as much as I can then a single track roads to get to

WS a bit of breath already so looks like I’m going be take my time in there let’s enjoy so you can one of my favorite things about cycling through po Park is that you great go right through a forest trees and that’s on say it you see number

75 yeah it’s definitely one of my favorite BS and the path just follows a white car along this way towards paisy from poock Park to Paisley the national cycle Network route number 75 roughly follows the white cart water and The Paisley Canal Railway line I’ve cycled this

Route for years now and never really looked at into why there is a train station named Paisley Canal I assumed there was a canal connecting the railway line to the river C or the cart near this station what I didn’t know was that there was a canal on the route that the

Train takes today there are still bits of The Canal at certain sections along the side of the Railway that you can still see to this day what’s even more fascinating is a river cart Aqueduct this Aqueduct was built in 1809 to carry the canal over the white cart water when

The canal closed and the railway was built in its place the aqueduct was widened to accommodate the railway so technically this is the oldest bridge in the world that carries a passenger train service the line meanders through Paisley as it roughly follows the same route that the canal did 200 years ago

So a train just arriving at he can now at this station the train terminates and from here we get to carry on cycling on the national cycle Network number 75 this is a great creation of public space that’s been reclaimed from the Old disused Railway line it’s a blueprint

That makes a network so successful this is just a part of a vast Nationwide cycling Network that opens up a whole new world for people to exercise travel and enjoy nature as well as creating a linear Park that stretches for miles and miles to make a positive impact for so

Many people who live along the Route pass nice and quiet today think I’ve had that sweet spot where people aren’t quite ready to take the dogs out for a walk at this point the railway would have split with one lane going towards theay and the other would cross the

Black cart water here going as far as the port at Greeno this is the route I’m going to take today heading towards K MCO that has been be strengthened streng oh he structured now kind of think I’m currently cycling past a field that’s been treated oh my God raw Sage that’s what that

Is that’s nasty so still slowly climbing a ho just passing bridge over here passing through oh so tired and on the legs I’m even go back this way just now looking Dead Ahead that looks like a big sign it says half closed or something like

That is it just a cut in the trees I tell that’s definitely a sign in C Council that’s new the old signs actually a bit gutty that the information’s been taken off it founded by Emperor Augustus around the year 41 BC the 17th Legion of the Roman

Imperial Army disappeared in the year 9 ad after being sent to deal with Germanic tribes they were destroyed in the Battle of tberg forest and their Eagle standards were lost the eagle standards were recovered by the Romans in later years what was left of the Legion was deployed to britanica to deal

With the tribes north of Hadrian’s Wall urban legend states that they went to Scotland and disappeared near dumbartonshire this public artwork by David Kemp and Jack Dempsey is called the lost 17 after destruction the Romans never used this Legion number again sorry i’ I’ve not got a bell sorry cheers oh no oh

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CL so I got the speed Road for just about a minute and then back on a single Track Road like this I believe people are just been dumping all the rubbish in there I think I’ve been on this road before on a bike on a car see here a second back flasher

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Right into LS nice trees in there this whole area just looks spooky on Google Maps but being even person that looks a lot worse oh that’s well there let G that was some else looking ahead looks like this Road’s going to get a bit bumpy a bit grally oh

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That for my thumbnail I had to stop it a bit to change my battery but how stunning is this just as the lights coming over there there but the sun is just hting the hills over there I can see aen and goat there and all the Peaks there covered in snow

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