The East Coast route, running out of London King's Cross, serves locations including Peterborough, Leeds, York, Newcastle, BerwickuponTweed, Edinburgh's Waverley station, Glasgow, Inverness and Aberdeen.
The A96 polled 97 of the 359 votes cast in the survey of 13 routes, which also included journeys on the A75 Gretna-Stranraer and A1 Edinburgh-Berwick UponTweed.