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Trans Pennine Trail NCN 62/65 Following our second, and this time successful, attempt at completing NCN7, Ricky and I decided that a second short tour would be in order. We particularly fancied going back to Scotland and cycling from Oban to Inverness, but because of time pressures and the like we ended up riding the Trans Pennine Trail instead. It was a really simple job to organise and what a good decision it turned out to be, too.  The Trail runs from Southport to Hornsea and it was really easy to organise as we simply got train tickets to Southport the day before departure. Despite Northern Rail having a really bad name we have previously found them to be good with bikes. Everything else we organised as we went along. We didn't even think about where we would spend each night. In general, and this was something I had forgotten, the TPT is mostly made up of tracks and trails, with odd bits of mostly quiet roads thrown in where required. This does mean that there are a