Vital funding helps restore former Lanarkshire railway path route

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Northern Corridor Community Volunteers have been awarded more than £4000 to promote walking opportunities around the disused Strathkelvin railway path near Moodiesburn.

NCCV received the money from Paths for All, with support from NatureScot. The promoted off-road routes benefit residents of the Northern Corridors' eight villages which include Auchinloch, Stepps, Chryston, Muirhead, Moodiesburn, Mount Ellen, Gartcosh and Mollinsburn by providing people with wayfinding information and highlighting points of interest.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

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Claire Williams, volunteer and funding officer at NCCV, told Lanarkshire Live : “The work undertaken has played a major role in creating safe, accessible walking routes in the local area and we’re grateful to Paths for All for continuing to support the project. “When we first started working on the path it was heavily littered and overgrown."We started with cleaning up bushes and boundaries, before moving onto installing clear signage to help people feel safer and more