Carmyle: Kenmuir Road

Kenmuir Road is a ghost street in Glasgow which used to connect Carmyle with Mount Vernon. Rudy visited by walking from Carmyle station via a park set along an old railway line!

Carmyle New Park

At first this barren greenspace might look a rather uninspiring place for a walk even on such a nice day but this is ideal for Rudy – a big open space to safely run around with lots of different smells to go snuffling after if his treats-for-recall game isn’t working!

Less than ten minutes walk from Carmyle station this park lies in a curve of the old Glasgow Central Railway. There was also a colliery here so Carmyle village has never grown into this corner and it’s become a greenspace tucked between the M74 motorway, the River Clyde and abandoned land to the west.

Kenmuir Road

Kenmuir Road was a road between Carmyle and Mount Vernon via a farm and the Daldowie Sand Quarry. A Secret Scotland article tells of it becoming a dumping ground before being cut in half by a motorway and left completely for nature to reclaim.

The road is clear on maps but barely visible on the ground once past the railway bridge. We had a lot of miles to cover today so we left it early and took a shortcut across scrubby woodland towards the Clyde. If we’d gone further we’d have seen the remains of Jimmy Wilson’s Farm.

There is a large area here that looks to be used (we guess somewhat unofficially) as a motocross track so the land isn’t completely abandoned. There was nobody around when we visited on a midweek afternoon but there will no doubt at times be lots of noise and bikes running so not always safe for dogs to explore off-lead.

The future of the Kenmuir wasteland is uncertain as plans for three hundred new houses in Carmyle include this area.

To quote one news article: Council planners have decided the benefits “outweigh” the conservation interest of the site — which is “of the lowest value to the city”.