Walks you can reach from Cathcart by train

A very direct, varied urban walk full of contrasts, mixing main roads, residential streets, high streets, footpaths, parks and greenspaces through old and new and upmarket and downmarket neighbourhoods. Some steps at the Shettleston end. Passes the Hovis factory and over the St Enoch subway station; intersects many bus routes.

Lunch: Many shops, cafés, takeaways and restaurants, especially around Glasgow Central and Argyle Street; a wide choice of eating around the halfway point near Duke Street, then options thin out until Shettleston.

Warnings: The wooded entrance to Greenfield Recreation Ground may feel daunting for solo walkers at quiet times. Some steps, including at Shettleston station.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

A fairly direct urban route on pavements that climbs out of Bishopbriggs to Springburn Park, then drops through Springburn and follows the main road into central Glasgow and weaving cleverly through underpasses and flyovers around the M8 junction. Includes a number of steps. Connects Glasgow's two main railway stations and the bus station, passing George Square; Springburn station is also on the route.

Lunch: Shops and facilities at Springburn around the halfway point.

Warnings: A short stretch runs along the busy A803, and the footways negotiating the M8 junction can be fume-filled and tricky to navigate.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

An urban route making good use of green spaces and easy underfoot but noisy from traffic. Some very uneven paving on Cathcart Road. A housing development at the eastern end of Toryglen Park may require a short diversion.

Lunch: Refreshments available around the start and end of the route.

Warnings: Very uneven paving on Cathcart Road may be hazardous; busy road crossings at Victoria Road and Aitkenhead Road.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

really good views along the river; the wonderful Glasgow Central Station. A short, straightforward and functional urban route through south-west Glasgow, taking a necessary long way around to avoid motorways, railways and sometimes-derelict industrial areas and before reaching the River Clyde and crossing the traffic-free Tradeston (Squiggly) Bridge into the city centre. Past the grand tenement houses of Pollokshields. Passes the Charles Rennie Mackintosh-designed Scotland Street School Museum (recently under renovation). Crosses the Clyde on the Tradeston 'Squiggly' Bridge.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

An easy, well-surfaced city walk with lovely sections beside the Clyde and through Glasgow Green and following the Clyde Walkway. Straightforward to navigate. Follows the Clyde Walkway and the main cycle route; a riverside stretch near the Police Scotland building was under repair (April 2022) but easily detoured via the road bridge.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

A pleasant, easy-to-follow urban route through attractive residential streets, linking green spaces and making use of three parks to provide welcome access to green space and with sections that avoid busy roads. One stretch is a little remote. Passes through Queen's Park, Auldhouse Park and Mansewood High Park. A Morrisons with cafe and toilets sits at the far end of Auldhouse Park.

Lunch: Several areas with good eating places along the way, including Strathbungo and Shawlands.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

A straightforward urban route hugging the railway line, through residential Pollokshaws and along roads with good pavements. Simple terrain and not especially scenic.

Warnings: Mostly alongside busy roads, though pavements are good throughout.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

One of my favourite routes so far; an interesting and attractive route; incredible how lovely the route is; so many great scenes of natural and man-made beauty. A pleasant, mostly leafy and largely accessible walk along the Forth and Clyde Canal and the Kelvin Walkway, following the river on good, shaded, mostly paved paths through parks and Glasgow's more attractive districts and with only one road crossing. A little steep in Kelvingrove Park with a few cobbles onto Elderslie Street. Follows the Forth and Clyde Canal and the Kelvin Walkway, passing through Kelvingrove Park and Glasgow Botanic Gardens (including the arboretum). Good for wildlife watching; dipper, grey wagtail and kingfisher have been seen. Note the navigation switchback at the Kelvin Aqueduct where the walkway meets the canal.

1 lunch spot: the Inn Deep

Warnings: Long stretches of the riverside route are unlit, so it can feel lonely, especially in the evenings. Botanic Gardens and some parks are gated and close around dusk, so it is not a 24-hour route.

Walk details: Slow Ways.

An easy, mostly flat urban walk along busy main roads through Maryhill and housing estates and with a stretch beside the Forth and Clyde Canal towpath. Sections of the canal towpath at Maryhill have been subject to closures for upgrade works; check before relying on it.

Warnings: Crosses beneath the M80 and follows several busy main roads.

Walk details: Slow Ways.