A ride through a number of scenic areas for with lunch at the famous station buffet at Carnforth Railway Station.
Meet in the small car park in Bilsborrow PR3 0RE, at 9 a.m. on Sunday 10th October. Parking and route details as below.
The station buffet has recently re-opened after closing during the Covid period and has apparently been refurbished. You can view the menu options at https://refreshmentroom.com/index.php/menu/.
For those who have not seen it, the film is available on YouTube. I shall be on hand with a clean handkerchief for anyone who gets grit in their eye.
Please bring the usual emergency tools and puncture repair equipment and consider emergency or daytime running lights; though we should be back before dark.
NO ONE will be left behind.
- Distance Instructions
- Distance 58 miles
- Time 5 h 16 min
- Speed 11 mph
- Min altitude 3 ft
- Peak 407 ft
- Ascend 1575 ft
- Descent 1575 ft
Most of the route is on National Routes 6, 90, The Way of the Roses and the Bay Cycleway. As such it is mostly a road ride with some cycle paths and a length of the Lancaster canal path, to avoid the A6 back to Lancaster.
A Ride to include several memorable and interesting places, including Crook O'Lune, Carnforth Station Buffet, Morecambe Bay and the Eric Morecambe Statue and the Lune Millennium Bridge in Lancaster.
A potential lunch stop at the Station Buffet in Carnforth, though on Sundays it only serves a Sunday Lunch. Other cafes are potentially available en route.
Start in the small car park on the right on the A6 (travelling North on the A6) on Garstang road, Bilsborrow PR3 0RE. This car park is situated just after the left turn into St Michaels Road (Guy’s Thatched Hamlet) and just before the Right turn into Bilsborrow Lane (The Roebuck and the Premier Inn).
The route heads inevitably north, criss crossing the M6 to Scorton, Bay Horse, Quernmore and Caton, then Halton to Carnforth station buffet.
The return route is along the Morcambe promenade then Lancaster, Glasson Dock, Cockerham and Garstang before returning to Bilsborow.
The Total distance is 58 miles.
