http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: "Great North Road: cycling the old route from London to Edinburgh" en Thu, 21 May 2026 08:30:01 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20644#post-352695 Fri, 09 Jul 2021 17:38:22 +0000 gembo 352695@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Maybe too many people died crossing the east coast mainline?</p> <p>I have been in the muddy fields though, they are quite muddy but end at Spittal which is a nice suburb of Berwick. Very flat. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20644#post-352694 Fri, 09 Jul 2021 17:30:00 +0000 Arellcat 352694@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That's the one. I don't remember if it was closed or 'closed' when I was there, which was four years ago. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20644#post-352691 Fri, 09 Jul 2021 17:14:00 +0000 slowcoach 352691@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Arellcat- is that West Goswick Farm Level Crossing (near Haggerston)? I had planned to use the track alongside the railway north from Beal last year, to avoid some of the muddy path that is NCN1. But at the south end of the track there was a notice saying “West Goswick Farm Level Crossing is now closed! You cannot cross the railway beyond this point” </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20644#post-352687 Fri, 09 Jul 2021 13:56:14 +0000 Arellcat 352687@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>You should try (or not) the <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.6929447,-1.9171422,163m/data=!3m1!1e3">level crossing near Haggerston</a>. It's probably semi-private use, where you have to open and close big metal gates as you cross. I can't remember if it has a siren or not, but it was heart in mouth time when I used it. I'd cycled up the cratered, unpaved road from Beal in order to avoid traipsing across the fields per my outward route from Goswick on NCN1, and couldn't be doing with retracing my steps. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20644#post-352650 Thu, 08 Jul 2021 18:23:40 +0000 ejstubbs 352650@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The disused goods yard at Belford Station* contains the remains of some <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.5965006,-1.80362,3a,15.9y,44.67h,84.48t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s2ptSSqd2mAy0hibxsU2H_w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656">North Eastern Railway coal drops</a> - characteristic of that pre-grouping railway company.</p> <p>The level crossing there always gives me the wig: I know the likelihood of a wrong side failure is infinitesimal, but the trains on that bit of the ECML go at a heck of a lick...</p> <p><em>* Also disused, as in trains no longer stop there. The station building is being operated as a B&amp;B.</em> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20644#post-352639 Thu, 08 Jul 2021 15:23:16 +0000 gembo 352639@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Did most of the guardian article route. Belford has a toy shop full of middle class wooden toys </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20644#post-352629 Thu, 08 Jul 2021 13:07:11 +0000 Arellcat 352629@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>And this, written by one of the guys on the SABRE forum:</p> <p><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Great-North-Road-Then-Now/dp/1870067797/" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.co.uk/Great-North-Road-Then-Now/dp/1870067797/</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20644#post-352626 Thu, 08 Jul 2021 12:13:33 +0000 Murun Buchstansangur 352626@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2021/jul/08/great-north-road-cycling-the-old-route-from-london-to-edinburgh" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2021/jul/08/great-north-road-cycling-the-old-route-from-london-to-edinburgh</a> </p>