Platform to Platform: Paisley Canal to Gourock




There's no need for a map here as the route is so clearly way-marked that even a blind man could follow it. It starts at Paisley Canal platform which conjoins with the sustrans national route no. 75. Here we begin a 20 mile odd journey, mostly flat, through open countryside via the old dismantled railway line, now a tranquil herbaceous corridor of wildflowers (myself included), shrubs and trees.



























Approaching Kilmacolm...




























Above Port Glasgow...



























The Freeway (dredger) starting its long journey into Glasgow (George V dock near Braehead).



























Cyclist and birds have a lot in common ;) [On the esplanade at Gourock]



























The beautiful mediterraneanesque Gourock Bay. Just a little further on is the train station, another station whose platform appears to merge with the cycle path. All in all, at a steady though never frenetic pace, a few hours of bliss, and thinking I'm somewhere on the Algarve...


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