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A tunnel linking Scotland and Northern Ireland? Fantasy has replaced British modesty Ian Jack © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Larum Stock/Alamy Galloway, as John Buchan wrote in The Thirty-Nine Steps, is “the nearest wild part of Scotland”, by which he meant the nearest to England, and in this particular context to the London railway terminus of St Pancras, where his hero, Richard Hannay, boards a train on a morning some time before the first world war, a fugitive from a foreign enemy and English law. He heads north, and changes at Dumfries to the slow Galloway train that “rumbled slowly into a land of little wooded glens and then to a great, wide moorland place, gleaming with lochs”.

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