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Welsh: I went trainspotting for characters

Sunday Mail

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August 31, 2025

TRAINSPOTTING author Irvine Welsh has said he creates his characters' physical appearances by travelling around studying strangers he sees on trains.

- BY GEORGE MAIR

Welsh, 66, said friends often think his characters are based on them, but he insisted they were based on strangers he spotted on the London Underground.

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