Apologies for the amateurish-1990s nature of these pages, but I my ideas of a vast searchable database are rather expensive to set up online, especially when one has zero coding ability. However, I have added a search box near the top of most pages. Entering a location or loco number into the box should result in a list of all the pages where it can be found.
Each year’s page can be reached from this page – although they are also accessible independently by the urls. (Please scroll way down). The logic is quite simple with each year page having almost identical addresses.
If you add “spotting-records-1950s-60s-70s-80s” (without the quotes) after the last backslash in purple above, you should create the direct link to the spotters’ notes home page for bookmark purposes.
However, from September 2024 I have been creating a separate domain for b/w photos taken at stations/sheds/etc. The web address is very similar – http://www.spottinglogs.blog
I would like to give special thanks to Roger Walker of South Devon, who has typed out many, many pages of notes covering numerous years in order to email them to me. Without his efforts these pages would be much less diverse.
If you have any spotting notes that you don’t mind sharing with a corner of the internet, I do not mind typing them onto these pages – the more the merrier really. Photograph your pages of spotting notes as a jpeg, and/or send me any form of .xls .xlsx .doc .rtf file to –
wild_boar_fell@outlook.com
I will transcribe them onto the relevant page(s)
RECENT CHANGES TO THE YEARLY PAGES –
10th January – additions to June 1963 (Birmingham, Worcester, Gloucester, Bristol)
11th January – additions to June 1963 (Bristol, Bath, Templecombe, Poole)
12th January – additions to June 1963 (Taunton, Exeter, Bristol); and additions to April 1953 (West Hartlepool to Hitchin, Liverpool Street to Norwich)
13th January – additions to October 1953 (South Lynn to Nottingham), and November 1953 (Nottingham and Derby)
14th January – additions to April 1954 (East Anglia and London)
15th January – additions to June & August 1954 (London and Kent); and additions to August 1955 (Hatfield to Radstock)
16th January – additions to August 1955 (Bristol, Gloucester, Worcester, Hereford)
17th January – additions to September 1955 (South Wales)
18th January – additions to September 1955 (Southwest England)
19th January – additions to September 1955 (Devon, Dorset, Hampshire)
20th January – additions to December 1955 (Staffordshire, Cheshire, Northeast Wales); also additions to January & February 1956 (Spalding to Nottingham); also September 1956 (numerous days at Lincoln)
21st January – additions to June 1963 (Bristol to Worcester, & Birmingham); also additions to October 1956 (Lincoln)
22nd January – additions to June 1963 (Birmingham to Preston)
23rd January – additions to October 1961 (Lancashire)
24th January – additions to October 1961 (London)
25th January – additions to December 1961 (London)
26th January – additions to January 1962 (West Country)
27th January – additions to February 1959 (Hastings to London, and north & west London sheds))
28th January – additions to October, November & December 1956 (Lincoln)
29th January – additions to March 1959 (Eastbourne to Lancashire and Yorkshire)
30th January – additions to January 1957 (Lincoln) & additions to November 1963 (Lancashire and Yorkshire)
31st January – additions to August 1963 (Scotland) and additions to December 1963 (Manchester to Derby, Burton, and Crewe)
1st February – additions to August 1963 (Scotland) & January/February 1957 (Lincoln)
I have created a page called Portfolio with links to as many of my photo pages as possible. This should make navigation easier. Click on the name in the box above.
I have also created a page for old LNER photos, as I bought a small batch of negatives recently. The page link is below.
If you have any spotting notes that you don’t mind sharing with the internet, I do not mind typing them onto these pages – the more the merrier really. Photograph your pages of spotting notes, and/or send me any form of .xls .xlsx .doc file to
Trainspotting data from 1947 until 1980 