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 –
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)
3rd February – additions to March 1957 (Lincoln)
4th February – additions to August 1963 (Southern Scotland)
5th February – additions to March 1959 (Euston to Crewe) & additions to March 1957 (Lincoln)
6th February – additions to April 1957 (Lincoln); additions to March 1959 (Crewe); additions to August 1963 (Carlisle)
7th February – additions to August 1963 (West Midlands); additions to March 1959 (Thames Valley & South Midlands)
9th February – additions to March 1959 (southern Scotland); additions to May 1970 (Leeds & Derby)
10th February – additions to June 1970 (Crewe, York, Leeds)
11th February – additions to June 1964 (Birmingham)
12th February – additions to June 1964 (Birmingham to Crewe & Chester)
14th February – additions to July 1964 (Birkenhead to Bescot via Warrington & Birmingham, Bromsgrove, Worcester)
15th February – additions to May 1957 (Lincoln)
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)
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 