It also got me wondering:
Trainspotting is named after the fictional scene in the book where addicts use a disused railway station, with an old drunk asking if they're "trainspottin'," but it also metaphorically links the characters' obsessive heroin use to the trivial hobby of watching trains, symbolizing a pointless, stationary existence as life passes by, and the physical "tracking" of injection marks. Author Irvine Welsh explained the title comes from how heroin users in Edinburgh would refer to shooting up at abandoned stations as "trainspotting," a mundane activity mirroring their drug-focused lives.
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