When tour buses drove past the Banana Flats on the way to Edinburgh's Port of Leith, guides with microphones would describe it as the "Trainspotting building". Cables Wynd House gets a passing ...

Cables Wynd House – better known as the Banana Flats due to its distinctive shape – is an iconic part of Leith. Famous for ...

First there was an opportunity.....then there was a betrayal. Twenty years have gone by. Much has changed but just as much remains the same. Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) returns to the only place ...

It is famous as the remote backdrop to one of the most iconic scenes in the classic 90s film Trainspotting. But now one of Scotland’s most isolated railway stations will play host to a summer ...

He's racked up a legion of die-hard followers with his eccentric and loveable trainspotting videos. But TikToker Francis Bourgeois need look no further, after he finally bought his own train ...

Amid the devastation and fear in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, a mother reflects on one way she and her family found some joy and connection along some train tracks.

Irvine Welsh has announced that a new sequel to his acclaimed novel “Trainspotting” is coming. The Scottish novelist published the cult novel about a group of heroin addicts in 1993 and it was ...

Twenty years on from Trainspotting’s cinema release, BBC Radio 4 documentary Choose Life tells the stories of the real-life recovering addicts who inspired the ...

Danny Boyle's incredible look at the Edinburgh drug scene launched the career of Ewan McGregor and includes one of the best soundtracks ever put to a movie.

Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh and Belle and Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch are among the line-up at this year’s Paisley Book Festival. Acclaimed short story writer Chris McQueer and ...