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…..
19th August – additions to April 1962 (Paddington to Oxford)
20th August – additions to April 1962 (Clapham Junction and Stratford)
21st August – additions to November 1963 (Birmingham to Crewe)
22nd August – additions to December 1963 (Nottingham area)–
23rd August – additions to December 1963 (Birmingham to Bath Green Park and Severn Tunnel Junction)
24th August – additions to December 1963 (Birmingham to Manchester)
25th August – additions to December 1963 (Lancashire)
28th August – additions to January 1964 (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire)
29th August – additions to February 1964 (Southwest Midlands)
30th August – additions to February 1964 (South Wales)
31st August – additions to February 1964 (Birmingham)
2nd September – additions to February & March 1964 (Birmingham to Manchester)
3rd September – additions to March 1964 (Birmingham and SW Midlands)
4th September – additions to March 1964 (Merseyside and Cheshire)
6th September – additions to summer 1969 (Greater London, Midlands, Thames Valley)
8th September – additions to July 1969 (London to Leeds. London to Harwich)
9th September – additions to June 1971 (East Midlands)
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)
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 