>>> I'll be visiting Scotland and England in a few weeks, starting out in
>>> Edinburgh and finishing in London. Would it be cheaper for my partner
>>> and I to rent a car? Or travel by train? We are planning an over
>>> night in Manchester and would need the car for only four days.
>> Edinburgh to Manchester in a car is either a dead boring trip on motorways
>> (and the A74, which is worse) or a 'challenging' drive across incredible
>> countryside on incredibly bendy and slow roads.
>> You don't say where you're from but if you're from the USA I'd suggest that
>> mastering driving on the wrong side of the road isn't a skill you'd wish to
>> acquire on either motorways or the twisty roads of the Scottish Borders.
> There's not a lot of skill in driving a RHD car on a motorway, it's junctions
> and roundabouts that can be tricky.
The A74 has some rather impressive fatal accident figures.
One rail option might be via the Settle-Carlisle line - much slower,
but one of the most spectacular stretches of railway in Europe.
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