Clyde Walkway An awful lot of bridges to Cambuslang

Walk: Clyde Walkway…..Glasgow - Cambuslang
Category: Long Distance Walk 
Height: n/a
I was looking for a low level walk to complete over the next month or so and preferably using public transport. After some research the Clyde Walkway was perfect.
Train to Glasgow and bus to the Transport Museum to start the walk. A grey drizzly day but the forecast was to improve.

Colourful steam engine

Lots of activity outside here today and queues to get inside, good news for the museum.
But no queues for me, I am walking and I soon reach the science centre building with two famous Clydeside boats docked up, impressive modern and the past. 

Old and new

Sadly they all have their problems. The iconic still cruising paddle steamer the Waverley in front and the Queen Mary, behind, is being restored. The science tower has had problems with its rotating structure since inception.
Runners and cyclists love this area, plenty out today.

Imposing crane

A walk alongside the slow moving brown coloured River Clyde and another Glasgow landmark is reached, the Finnieston crane. My wife was once meant to zip wire from this across the river for charity, it was cancelled don’t think she was sad!! 

Under the bridges as well

Its bridges all the way on this walk mostly beside but some under and over. As I neared the end of this stage I reckoned there must have been about 20 bridges in the 9 miles.

Clutha Bar

Before reaching Glasgow Green you pass the Clutha Bar where tragically the police helicopter crashed onto the roof 5 years ago with many fatalities.
Across the water there is a lifeboat stance but with the number of small craft I wonder if this is a museum?

Winter Gardens

Into the park and I detour to the People's Palace /Winter Gardens for a bacon roll. Toilets located here and it is free entry so well worth a stop. 
It was weird when I restarted the walk as literally every person I saw for the next 5 minutes was looking at their phone and I mean everyone. I had to ask and apparently it was a community health group playing a mobile search game, at least it gets people out and active. 
Next up is the rowing club but no canoeists out today. 

Follow the wall

The next mile or so is more grubby and industrial, graffiti sprayed walls and the number of people around is almost zero.
In the distance the red ironwork of the next bridge adds a bit of colour to the grey day

Red brig

New housing appears on my left, this was part of the 2014 Commonwealth Games village and then sold to locals at realistic prices and is impressive. But again there is no one around, it is a Saturday. Do people not own and walk dogs here?
There is a loud splash in the river behind me, I looked back and circles spreading on the water, could it have been a salmon moving upriver?
Parkhead looms up on the left, no doubt the area would be a lot busier if Celtic were playing.

Where is everybody?

If anything it goes even quieter through the wooded section, you would not want to meet some local worthies here if you are alone, like me. ‘Fancy a swim, pal, the river looks inviting‘.
Highlight of the day was a grey wagtail posing close by and then a Sparrowhawk almost colliding with me as it tried to flush its lunch going through the trees at full speed.
Before long the outskirts of Cambuslang is reached, the walk is over and the train station close by.
Not the most scenic or exciting walk but interesting nevertheless. At least you always have the River Clyde and its wildlife for company. Plenty of people through the city section and a distinct lack of in the last third.

Wildlife: Grey Squirrel; Grey Wagtail; Sparrowhawk; Goosander; Cormorant and a full red breasted Xmas robin.
Time: 3.01
Ascent: 329ft
Distance: 9.91m