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 –
16th February – additions to March 1959 (southern Scotland)
18th February – additions to March 1959 (northeast Scotland)
19th February – additions to May 1957 (Lincoln)
20th February – additions to August 1962 (Manchester to London)
26th February – additions to August 1962 (Birmingham to Basingstoke & Reading)
28th February – additions to August 1962 (Bristol)
1st March – additions to September 1962 (Exeter to Bristol)
2nd March – additions to September 1962 (Birmingham to London and Redhill)
5th March – additions to September 1962 (Birmingham to Leicester)
6th March – additions to September 1962 (Birmingham to Shrewsbury)
9th March – additions to July 1964 (Cheshire)
10th March – additions to July 1964 (Manchester)
11th March – additions to July 1964 (Birmingham to Oxford)
14th March – additions to August 1963 (Birmingham to Edinburgh via York)
15th March – additions to July 1960 (N E England & Southern Scotland)
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 