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I was riding the Tour o the Borders route at the weekend and noticed around Tweedsmuir, running parallel with the road for a stint there was a path of the old railway.

Looking on OS 50K this line seems to run all the way up to gala via Peebles. I know that the part between Peebles and Inners is widely used to link the trail centres, but has anyone ridden the rest of the path / railway down towards Tweedsmuir? Is it as continuous as it looks on the map?


 
Posted : 30/05/2018 11:25 am
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Its pretty good condition throughout i think.

Its in my list of things to try riding. You can also do peebles to penicuik and beyond pretty much on route.

And the fife coastal line...


 
Posted : 30/05/2018 12:02 pm
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Have a search on the Bearbones bikepacking forum. There's a poster from Hawick by the name of borderer who I'm pretty certain has ridden most or all of it.


 
Posted : 30/05/2018 2:24 pm
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You'll find some stuff here...

http://www.southofscotlandcountrysidetrails.co.uk/


 
Posted : 30/05/2018 2:31 pm
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A few weeks ago I went to ride a cycleroute I know on a disused railway that I hadn't been on for years.  Some bugger had put trains on it!  Most discombobulated I was


 
Posted : 30/05/2018 3:44 pm

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