I remember the old tracks still in place nearer Loanhead on the other side of the Bypass. Surely you could walk across the border! I never notice these local authority borders!
Until yesterday it was illegal to leave ones home local authority, with certain exceptions. One of which was to take exercise, so last Wednesday I rode my bike along the cycle path from Lasswade Road to Shawfair (avoiding the border guards as I crossed in to Midlothian
) and had a nosy around Millerhill village. The tracks visible in the 2012 Streetview photos are very much still there.
This is the buffer stop where the track stops just short of the old alignment of Millerhill Road. The track here runs through a field and although lined with mature hedgerows on each side it's not really fenced in any effective way.
Signal EM41, which is just about visible in the previous photo, close up here showing it still illuminated. The turnout is a score or so of yards further along.
Looking north from the B6415 overbridge towards Millerhill 'yard'. There's a 5mph speed restriction sign hidden in the trees to the left of the track. I think the road (which is gated on the other side of the overbridge) leads to the DB Schenker part of the yard (if indeed that is still what it is).
Same overbridge, looking south. There is another illuminated signal up there but I couldn't get close enough to see its number.
This photo was taken from an overbridge for an unsurfaced track called "The Kaims", which runs from the roundabout on the A6106 south of Newton Village and emerges on to the Old Dalkeith Road about 250m south-east of the park-and-ride. The remains of the trackbed west of Millerhill Road can be seen; there are no tracks still
in situ on this stretch.
Looking west from the same overbridge towards Shawfair. Again, no tracks
in situ here.
The cycle path from Glencorse/Roslin/Loanhead/Straiton emerges on to the main road through Shawfair (which appears not to have a name, even on the council's own map) at the slightly bizarre little cluster of 'artworks'
here. Behind the camera is the other end of the bit of trackbed shown above; for some reason it's obscured in the Streetview image but in any case it's only really identifiable from the road by the hedgerows on each side heading east across the fields.