Since Cycle Orbital seeks out "peaceful rides at London's margins", by definition industry and urban infrastructure is on the whole avoided. Nonetheless, they crop up and make a comforting counterpoint to all that countryside for incurable urbanites. Some of them are CyOrb highlights. Don't miss an opportunity to visit Crossness Pumping Station, for instance.
Top five earn asterisks:
- Arc 2a: Gunpowder Park
- *Arc 2b: Isle of Dogs - Canary Wharf & Millwall Docks; Greenwich peninsular (o2); Thames Barrier
- *Arc 2b alt: Northern Outfall Sewer (Abbey Mills Pumping Station); City Airport
- *Arc 3: Crossness Pumping Station; Thamesside industry
- Arcs 11 & 12, inner, outer & merged: Hertfordshire Lost Rails
- *Spin-off 3: Thamesside industry; Purfleet and Tilbury docks, St Clement's-in-the-Soap-Factory
- *Spin-off 4: Thamesside industry and port facilities
- Spin-off 6: Gatwick Airport
- Spin-off 8: Basingstoke canal
- Spin-off 11: Leighton Buzzard Railway