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National Cycle Route 7 runs from Carlisle to Inverness via Glasgow.

[edit] Route

[edit] Carlisle to Glasgow

The route runs from Carlisle across the border to Dumfries; this section takes a long route at present, but may change following the construction of an "all-purpose route" alongside the M6 extension.^[1] In Scotland, the route then heads west to Dumfries and then Newton Stewart. At this point, it notably does not use the route of the abandoned Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway^[2]. It then splits into alternative on and off-road paths to run north through hilly country to meet the coast again at Ayr. After meeting the NCR 73 near Kilwinning, it follows back roads and an old railway, meets the NCR 75 west of Paisley, which run together into Glasgow, with 7 and 75 splitting outside the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre.

Carlisle | Dumfries | Newton Stewart | Ayr | Kilwinning | Paisley | Glasgow

[edit] Glasgow to Pitlochry

From the point described above, the trail proceeds west along the north of the River Clyde, through Dumbarton to Loch Lomond at Balloch. Regional route 40 branches off here, while the route turns north east into the Trossachs. Passing through Drymen, Aberfoyle and Callander (where it planned to meet NCR 76) it then goes north through Strathyre and Glen Ogle following an abandoned railway track to Killin. It runs along the south of Loch Tay, and then down the valley east to the confluence with the River Tummel, where it turns north to Pitlochry, meeting the NCR 77.

Glasgow | Dumbarton | Balloch | Drymen | Aberfoyle | Callander | Balquhidder | Killin | Kenmore | Pitlochry

[edit] Pitlochry to Inverness

Pitlochry | Kingussie | Aviemore | Inverness

[edit] References

1. ^ The M6 motorway extension project - Road Traffic Technology
2. ^ Dogfood: Simon Brooke's blog: An unintended epic

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