Best driving route to Edinburgh?

[KEV_SAFC_FTM]

travelling from Newcastle city centre. A1 would be the most logical but there’s always something slowing it up, be it roadworks or agricultural vehicles

 

[Wilfy]

A1.

 

[ravydavygravy]

A697

 

[Latka Gravas]

The train

 

[heroesof73]

Train if you are staying in City centre--canny bit cheaper than the speed cameras that are lurking if you stray above limits

 

[Hawayawayawayaway]

I prefer A697 via Coldstream, usually quiet (sometimes no other cars at all), free of big lorries, nice scenery. But obviously slower than A1.

 

[No. 1 is Gary Rowell]

Went up via A1 on Friday, left Boldon at 4.40pm and was in city centre at 7.10pm, wasn't a bad journey.

 

[Thackeray]

Best as in quickest, or best as in most scenic? There is no quicker way than the A1.

 

[Pink Panther]

I used to travel there a lot. I used to vary the routes I took just for a change of scenery. Coldstream was the route with the fewest speed cameras and a canny chippy to break up the journey. A1, Jedburgh and Coldstream all seemed to take around 3 hours from Newcastle.

 

[MackemBob]

A1 is longer, but has a good number of dual carriageway sections.

A697 from A1 at Morpeth to A68 at Carfraemill is a nice drive if you are a keen driver or like scenery, but is littered with speed cameras north of the border. There are cameras south of the border but these are in Longfram and the other village beginnign with an L. There's sometime a mobile set up at Powburn.

A1 is the easier drive.

 

[Ghost of EH7]

I prefer A697 via Coldstream, usually quiet (sometimes no other cars at all), free of big lorries, nice scenery. But obviously slower than A1.

When I used to drive up there this was my favourite route, and the quickest. The A1 may have improved since then, as this was 15 years ago.

 

[Rick O Shea]

I usually use the A1 these days - I wish they would get their fingers out and dual more of the road between Dunbar, Berwick and Morpeth.

 

[Man About Town]

Straight up Stoorie Brae, left at the But n' Ben.

 

[monkeytassle]

Which part of Edinburgh you headed for.

 

[Deleted member 27423]

A697

Beautiful route...if not in hurry, im a bit biased mind!
( watch for speed van in powburn ....caught hundreds out)

 

[Schwarzy]

A1 is by far the least painful & quickest route.

 

[HellsBells]

A697. Everyone I know who’s lived up there comes down for the match that way.

A1 is always full of traffic and never quicker.

 

[AB22 Easy Tiger]

When I used to drive up there this was my favourite route, and the quickest. The A1 may have improved since then, as this was 15 years ago.

This. Always the quickest. (A697)

 

[Iballistic George]

Went up via A1 on Friday, left Boldon at 4.40pm and was in city centre at 7.10pm, wasn't a bad journey.

I left after the game 2 weeks ago. Finally got out of sheepfolds after being held up for 45 fekkin minutes by the traffic cone nazis. Once out and past the A19 roundabout I was home in onverkinverke in 2 and a half hours from there.

 

[monkeytassle]

A696 then a68 was on average fastest for me when I was driving to and from Edinburgh as a student. Marginally quicker than the a697