Jack Campin - bogus address wrote:
> >>> 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.
The mainline train route is hardly uninteresting either.
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