Where the cycle route merges onto the A89 (Main street) [Plains] then through a short section of residential streets in Airdrie, (Craigneuk, Gartlea and Cairnhill) before proceeding into Coatdyke, the route joins a disused railway line between Airdrie and Coatbridge.
Bathgate | Airdrie | Coatbridge | Uddingston | Cambuslang | Glasgow The route runs along the north of the Clyde to the SECC, where it joins NCR 7 through Paisley to Johnstone.
It then branches west, following a disused railway track through Bridge of Weir and Kilmacolm to Port Glasgow.
A 14-mile (23 km) section of the route between Airdrie and Bathgate closed in October 2008 as part of a £300 million project to reopen the railway.
[4] Dunoon | Sandbank | Loch Striven | Kyles of Bute | Tighnabruaich | Kames | Millhouse | Portavadie