"JWBH" wrote in message
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>I will have to make a journey on a regular basis (mainly at weekends) from
>north london U.K. (finchley central) to edenbridge in kent, which is due
>south of london.
>
Train would be favourite for me. Tube to Charing Cross and then the
Uckfield train
> The online RAC route planner tells me if i go all the way around the M25
> instead of going down through the centre of london is will be almost
> exactly *twice* the milage. the time scale they estimate for both routes
> is very similar, being within ten minutes of the other route.
>
> Since my son drives we would travel pretty briskly on both routes. The car
> is a twelve year old toyota corolla 1.3 GL.
>
You wont be going briskly through central London and dont run into the
congestion charge zone.
> Just off the top of your head, which way of travelling, either down
> through London or going around the M25, is likely to work out the most
> 'economical' purely from the petrol consumption point of view? thanks.
>
On a weekend I'd head down the A1 to Archway, cut across to Hackney
and take the Blackwall tunnel onto the A20 and then round the M-25
but getting lost would be easy, it'd probably be better
Keith
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