Those who get the reference, hit this!<\/a><\/p>\n They’ve ripped up the train track around here.\u00a0 If George Osborne doesn’t pull the plug, the plan is that the trains which used to run the loop from Manchester through Oldham to Rochdale will be replaced by spanking new trams.\u00a0 To us, what this means is an opportunity to sneak onto a lovely, temporary cycle track of the type so loved by Sustrans<\/a>.\u00a0 Old rail tracks are usually pretty even and not too steep so they make ideal family trails.\u00a0 Trouble is, this one’s supposed to be a building site.\u00a0 “Ah, what the hell, let’s give it a whirl”, we thought!<\/p>\n I took my son along to make things look like we weren’t looking for trouble (officer<\/em>), and because I knew he’d see it as a bit of an adventure.\u00a0 Also, when he’s a grown man travelling on the line himself, he’ll remember the day he cycled it incognito with his Dad.<\/p>\n We got onto the track easily near Jubilee Bends, Newhey.\u00a0 There’s an unmanned level crossing so we used the cycle gate and on we went.\u00a0 This was a couple of miles from home, so we headed back towards Rochdale.\u00a0 There was only one awkward bit, where a road bridge was almost totally obscured by scaffold, but we found a path through.<\/p>\nLawless Risk-Takers<\/h2>\n
Caught By The Fuzz<\/h2>\n