(12 Jan 2014, 11:54 am)Tom wrote Right, so for my big trip for the start of the year, I'll be going to Edinburgh, a city I have no idea about. I'll be booking train tickets as soon as I can, but want some advice on where to go, best train company etc.
Any help would be much appreciated
If it was me, I'd rather wait for the East Coast rather than Cross Country, but they both take the same amount of time.
I've never really spent a lot of time in Edinburgh but you might be best off just looking at the Lothian route map, and travelling around based on where you'll see multiple services passing at a high frequency.
If you set off early enough, it's probably worth getting train tickets to/from Glasgow Queen Street, and have a few hours over there too. There's a train between the two every 15 minutes and it only takes 50 minutes. There's had been a lot of First repaints happening last time I was over Glasgow, and of course McGills and the Stagecoach express (coach) services are there too.