The desolate Scots train station made famous in cult film Trainspotting is getting a £400,000 facelift.
Corrour station, near Fort William, the highest in the UK at 1300ft above sea level, features in the film version of Irvine Welsh's best-seller.
In one of the film's more sedate scenes Renton and Begbie, played by Ewan McGregor and Robert Carlyle, enjoying a day in the countryside with Sick Boy and Spud after getting off a train at Corrour.
As so many film-lovers follow in their footsteps on the West Highland Way, Network Rail decided to revamp the station and workers on the site couldn't resist re-enacting parts of the famous scene themselves.
Project manager Andy Docherty said: "You could never publish the famous quotes from the film because they're so blasphemous, but let's just say there's been a bit of colourful dialogue from the film shouted out into the hills by the boys onsite.
"They're a young team and there's a lot of banter but they also know there's a job to be done and they have to be professional about it.
"You see Americans coming off the train and they think it's a film set, but it's a real working station.
"You also see plenty of youngsters getting off the train with carry-outs looking to copy the film - it's always a good laugh.
"Unfortunately, Corrour has seen better days so we are sprucing the whole place up to make it look absolutely pristine for all the visitors."
It didn't take long for the team to stumble across the same problem as the Trainspotting stars - there are no roads, so they were left to lug 4000 timber sleepers to the hilltop station.
They also had to temporarily close the line while they drove a digger up the railway tracks.
Mr Docherty added: "It looked grim in the film thanks to some very clever camera work, but it's an absolutely stunning site and we want to leave it as we found it.
"Transporting all the gear by rail proved quite an issue because it's so remote - it's almost an offshore experience.
"We've done work on some fairly isolated stations before but never before where there has been no public road access."
Trainspotting was released in 1996 and directed by Danny Boyle, the Oscar- winning director of Slumdog Millionaire.
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