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…..
11th September – additions to June 1971 (Derby to Retford and Sheffield) & July 1971 (Stoke to Leeds, and overnight at York)
13th September – additions to July 1971 (Stoke to Leeds & York)
15th September – additions to August 1971 (Stoke to Leeds, Stoke to Crewe)
17th September – additions to August 1971 (Stoke to Derby, Leeds and another overnight at York)
18th September – additions to July/August 1969 (Euston to Bolton, Preston and return)
21st September – additions to September 1969 (London to Manchester; London to Sheffield)
22nd September – additions to October 1969 (London to North Wales and return)
23rd September – additions to September 1968 (Manchester to Euston)
24th September – additions to September 1968 (South Yorkshire & East Midlands)
25th September – additions to September 1968 (Kent, Sussex Hampshire; Bristol to Swansea)
26th September – additions to October 1968 (Midlands)
28th September – additions to November 1968 (Manchester to Doncaster)
29th September – additions to December 1968 (Cheshire, Lancashire, Merseyside)
1st October – additions to December 1968 (Manchester & Crewe)
2nd October – additions to November 1967 (Lancashire, Cheshire, Merseyside); (London)
3rd October – additions to November 1967 (Manchester to Stoke); (Manchester to Wigan)
4th October – additions to February/March 1968 (Trafford Park); (Manchester to Cardiff via Gloucester and Swindon)
5th October – additions to March 1968 (South Wales); April/May 1968 (Trafford Park, Manchester Victoria)
6th October – additions to June 1968 (Southern Region, Hampshire, Surrey, Sussex, Kent)
7th October – additions to June 1968 (Manchester to Hull)
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
