Using Judith Butler's notion of the social abject and the materialized/dematerialized body, the article first looks at the abjected bodies of the Remade and how they are discursively and socially constructed, finding parallels with the queer figures in the novel. This article explores the social boundaries of the titular train, the Iron Council. China Miéville's Iron Council (2004), as one of the major texts of the New Weird, is a prime example of weird fiction as a novel concerned with the establishment and extension of territorial and economic boundaries, however, it is also a western in its thematic ethos, its aesthetic sensibilities, and its preoccupation with notions of the frontier.
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