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 –
21st April – additions to May/June/July 1964 (Euston to Nuneaton, St Pancras to Nottingham
23rd April – additions to July 1964 (Ashford to Chatham and Dover; Kings Cross to Wakefield and Sheffield; Kings Cross to North Lincs and also Tees-side)
24th April – additions to July 1964 (Kings Cross to Doncaster via Nottingham and Sheffield, Kings Cross to Rotherham, also Hull and York)
25th April – additions to July 1964 (Kings Cross to Leeds & Bradford)
26th April – additions to August 1964 (Nine Elms, St Pancras to Staveley via Derby Works)
27th April – additions to 1969 (Euston to Lancashire)
28th April – additions to April/May 1969 (London to Shropshire, Cheshire, Lancashire and Thames Valley)
29th April – additions to August 1964 (Cumbria and Northwest Yorkshire)
30th April – additions to August 1964 (North Lancashire, Carlisle overnight)
1st May – additions to August 1964 (Eastbourne/Hastings to Clapham J, Basingstoke, & Salisbury to Exeter)
2nd May – additions to August 1964 (Salisbury to Eastleigh, Southampton and Bristol)
3rd May – additions to August 1964 (Bristol to Birmingham via Exeter, Southampton and Reading
4th May – additions to May 1939 (Paddington to South and West Wales)
5th May – additions to July 1939 (Paddington to Southeast Wales)
6th May – additions to March 1939 (Eastleigh and Fratton); and April 1939 (London to North Wales)
7th May – additions to April 1939 (Colwyn Bay to Paddington); and Nov/Dec 1962 (West Midlands, Welsh Marches, Southeast Wales)
8th May – additions to December 1962 (Southeast Wales)
9th May – additions to December 1962 (Birmingham to Hastings)
10th May – additions to August 1957 (Birmingham to Tyneside, and return); and July 1958 (Paddington to Port Talbot)
11th May – additions to July 1958 (Kings Cross to Yorkshire)
12th May – additions to July 1958 (Yorkshire)
13th May – additions to September 1958 (Euston to Wellington; Wellington to Paddington)
14th May – additions to September 1931 (Paddington); additions to May/June 1959 (Greater London area, and trip to Lancashire)
15th May – My Facebook account has been suspended, for unknown reasons. I will not be able to post photos to railway groups.
15th May – additions to July 1959 (Lancashire)
16th May – additions to July 1959 (Lancaster to Carlisle, Kirkby Stephen, Keswick, Kendal, Barrow, Workington)
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 