Tourists flock to desolate moor to recreate iconic scene from Danny Boyle's movie Trainspotting

Publish date: 2024-06-16

TO movie fans, it’s most commonly known as the “it’s s***e being Scottish” scene.

Trainspotting star Ewan McGregor’s rant to junkie pals on a desolate Highland moor remains one of Scotland’s most legendary film clips.

Now one of Scotland’s most remote restaurants has launched a contest to find the best recreation of the scene from the 1996 Danny Boyle classic.

Movie fans from around the world regularly make the three-hour train journey from Glasgow to tiny Corrour station, on Rannoch Moor, where it was shot.

Bosses at the Corrour Station House Restaurant are offering visitors a free luxury dinner for the best photo capturing the bridge scene.

And they’ve been flooded with entries from hikers, campers and cyclists, all with their own take on the hit film.

One group of drunken Belgians even stripped off to their undies to copy the movie.

Lizzie MacKenzie, 23, who runs Corrour restaurant with partner Ollie Bennett, 23, said: “People always ask where the Trainspotting bridge is so we thought it would be good to let visitors do their own version.”

On a jaunt to the country, every film fan’s favourite Edinburgh drug addict comes over all philosophical in Danny Boyle’s movie:

Tommy (Kevin McKidd): “Doesn’t it make you proud to be Scottish?”

Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor): “It’s s***e being Scottish! We’re the lowest of the low. The scum of the f****** Earth!

“The most wretched, miserable, servile, pathetic trash that was ever s*** into civilization.

“Some hate the English. I don’t. They’re just w*****s. We, on the other hand, are colonised by w*****s. Can’t even find a decent culture to be colonised by. We’re ruled by effete a*******s.

“It’s a s***e state of affairs to be in, Tommy, and all the fresh air in the world won’t make any f****** difference!”

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