What is the "Scottish Belt"?

[pne]

What is the "Scottish Belt"? (Or something like that; I may be misremembering the name.)

Is it the routes between Glasgow and Edinburgh?

Just the one through Carstairs or everything with a region bounded by something like Glasgow Queen Street - Falkirk High - Edinburgh Waverley - Carstairs - Glasgow Central?

Is it a railway term, or is it a primarily geographical term (and the railway routes just happen to be particularly thick on the ground there because of the nature of the belt)?

 

[paulravuslante]

I think you're referring to the term Central Belt:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Belt

 

[theironroad]

You're probably thinking about the 'central belt'. It is broadly the area between glasgow in the west and Edinburgh in the east.

It is not really a railway term specifically but used by all of Scotland when talking about the geographic area. It is the area between the 'lowlands' of Scotland and the borders with England and the Highlands of Scotland.

 

[pne]

That's the one.

Thank you!

 

[deltic08]

Geographically Scotland is divided into Southern Uplands, Central Lowlands and Highlands. Compared to the other two, the Central Lowlands is a narrow triangular area and has been simplified into Central Belt usually meaning the strip roughly between Glasgow and Edinburgh even though Perth and Dundee are in the Central Lowlands.

 

[83G/84D]

Something to keep your kilt in place?

 

[STEVIEBOY1]

Something to keep your kilt in place?

(Isn't what that big safety pin looking thing is for ? ) - Sorry.
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Would I be correct in assuming that the Great Glen in Scotland, divides the Highlands and the Lowlands and runs along Loch Ness, or is it further south of the Loch.

 

[edwin_m]

Lots of the Highlands, including all of the Highland Main Line, are south of the Great Glen. The Highlands start a bit to the north of Perth and Dundee.

 

[Liam]

(Isn't what that big safety pin looking thing is for ? ) - Sorry.
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Would I be correct in assuming that the Great Glen in Scotland, divides the Highlands and the Lowlands and runs along Loch Ness, or is it further south of the Loch.

Geographically, the Highlands are everything North of the Highland Boundary Fault which runs up the Firth of Clyde, hitting land at Helensburgh and carries on to Stonehaven on the East Coast. The Highland Fault line passes through Loch Lomond, in the North it's long, deep and narrow, like a Highland loch, in the South its wider and shallower, like a Lowland loch.

 

[STEVIEBOY1]

Geographically, the Highlands are everything North of the Highland Boundary Fault which runs up the Firth of Clyde, hitting land at Helensburgh and carries on to Stonehaven on the East Coast. The Highland Fault line passes through Loch Lomond, in the North it's long, deep and narrow, like a Highland loch, in the South its wider and shallower, like a Lowland loch.

That's very interesting, thank you.

 

[reb0118]

Would I be correct in assuming that the Great Glen in Scotland, divides the Highlands and the Lowlands and runs along Loch Ness, or is it further south of the Loch.

No, as has been mentioned above, but the Great Glen (Gleann Albainn More?) is a major geographic fault line. It continues in a South Westerly direction to divide Donegal from the rest of Ulster. All land to the North West was once part of Canada but it has gradually moved Eastwards due to the activities of the Mid - Atlantic Ridge Fault Line. There is still some minor seismic activity in the area.