Iconic Trainspotting station has to go to rehab

By Michael MacLeod

THE desolate Scots train station made famous in cult film Trainspotting is getting a £400,000 facelift – because it is so popular with tourists.

Corrour station, the highest in the UK at 1,300 feet above sea level, features in Irvine Welsh’s tale of a gang of drug-peddling lowlife pals romping through Edinburgh.

One of the flick’s more sedate scenes shows Renton, played by Scots star Ewan McGregor, enjoying a boozed-up day in the countryside with junkie pals Sick Boy and Spud after getting off a train at Corrour.

And with so many film-lovers following in their footsteps on the West Highland Way, Network Rail decided to completely revamp the station.

The bothy with a luxury loo

By Cara Sulieman

A MOUNTAIN bothy has laid claim to being the poshest in Scotland – after having its very own toilet fitted.

The shelters don’t usually have the luxury of a toilet.

But the Corrour shelter in the Cairgorms was made an exception because the ground there is so hard needy walkers struggle to dig a hole to ‘go’.

Neil Stewart, from the Mountain Bothy Association who were behind the installation, said: “Corrour was an exception.