Walks you can reach from Glasgow Queen Street by train
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Gilshochill Station to Bishopbriggs Station (Lanarkshire)
5m direct from Glasgow Queen Street.
A short, simple route through housing estates on the northern edge of Glasgow and with a short muddy section after wet weather and small patches of woodland. An easy alternative avoids the muddy section via Duncryne Place and Brackenbrae Road.
Easy: 4km, moderate ascents.
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Milngavie Station to Bishopbriggs Station (Stirlingshire)
5m direct from Glasgow Queen Street.
11km. Moderate ascents.
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Bishopbriggs Station to Shettleston Station (Lanarkshire)
5m direct from Glasgow Queen Street.
Easy: 9km, moderate ascents.
The footpath linking Littlehill Golf Club to Acredyke Road (east of Stobhill Hospital) was found overgrown with Japanese knotweed and impassable, not feeling safe underfoot.
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Bishopbriggs Station to Stepps Station (Lanarkshire)
5m direct from Glasgow Queen Street.
Easy: 7km, moderate ascents.
The footpath linking Littlehill Golf Club to Acredyke Road (east of Stobhill Hospital) was found overgrown with Japanese knotweed and impassable, not feeling safe underfoot.
Documented by Slow Ways — download GPX route
Bishopbriggs Station to Lenzie Station (Lanarkshire)
5m direct from Glasgow Queen Street.
A rough, adventurous route. The section along Crosshill Road has no pavement and only a very rough, narrow verge beside a fast, busy road and beyond the B812 junction there is no obvious path at all.
Easy: 6km, moderate ascents.
Crosshill Road is a fast, busy road with no pavement and only a rough, narrow verge. Beyond the B812 junction there is no clear path and it likely involves walking through a farm field beside the railway. A small path along the south side of the railway through Lenzie avoids much of the road.
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Lenzie Station to Stepps Station (Lanarkshire)
9m direct from Glasgow Queen Street.
A route on core paths, cycleways, pavements and minor roads and crossing main roads at traffic lights.
9km.
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Shettleston Station to Stepps Station (Lanarkshire)
15m direct from Glasgow Queen Street.
A simple, direct and mostly enjoyable route through built-up areas and with several parks and green spaces worked in. Molendinar Woods, Cardowan Moss and Frankfield Loch offer an alternative away from the busy Cumbernauld Road.
Easy: 6km, gentle ascents.
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Milngavie Station to Gilshochill Station (Stirlingshire)
15m direct from Glasgow Queen Street.
A pleasant start out of Milngavie through countryside around the Rangers Training Centre and crossing some large main roads.
Easy: 9km, moderate ascents.
Crosses some large main roads; take care.
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Kelvindale Station to Gilshochill Station (Dunbartonshire)
15m direct from Glasgow Queen Street.
A fully accessible, step-free, off-road route along the good towpath of the Forth and Clyde Canal, over the Kelvin aqueduct and past the Maryhill locks and with not-too-steep inclines and good paving. Two short road sections near the end. A short detour reaches the viewing platform in Stockingfield Park; Gilshochill station has stairs only.
Tough: steep ascents. 2km.
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Shettleston Station to Uddingston Station (Lanarkshire)
15m direct from Glasgow Queen Street.
An urban route mixing busier roads (the B765) with the off-road Clyde Walkway into Uddingston and avoiding a rural 60mph road with no verges. Follows the Clyde Walkway. Detours possible into Cambuslang or Newton to break the journey. Sustrans plan to reopen the Carmyle–Westburn viaduct as a walking and cycling route.
11km. Moderate ascents.
Lunch: The only facilities on the route are a small shop and a pair of pubs in Carmyle, about a third of the way along.
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Shettleston Station to Bargeddie Station (Lanarkshire)
15m direct from Glasgow Queen Street.
A direct, mostly off-road route on paths and grass through parkland, with some single-track paths and stairs. A short and sometimes overgrown section near a petrol station at Mount Vernon.
Easy: 8km, moderate ascents.
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Rutherglen Station to Shettleston Station (Lanarkshire)
15m direct from Glasgow Queen Street.
Easy: 5km, moderate ascents.