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…..
15th May – My Facebook account has been suspended, for unknown reasons.
6th July – additions to September 1964 (Taunton to Reading via Southampton)
8th July – additions to October 1964 (Birmingham to Warrington)
9th July – additions to October 1964 (Cheshire to Birmingham)
10th July – additions to October 1964 (Birmingham to Burnley)
15th July – additions to October 1964 (Birmingham to Yeovil via Exeter; Yeovil to Weymouth via Salisbury and Bournemouth)
16th July – additions to November 1964 (Yeovil to Gloucester)
17th July – additions to November 1964 (Birmingham to Redhill)
20th July – additions to November 1964 (Birmingham to Westbury)
22nd July – additions to November 1964 (Birmingham to Oxford and Swindon); & additions to Jan/Feb 1962 (Clapham Junction)
23rd July – additions to February 1962 (Reading to Tonbridge via Paddington and Norwood Junction)
24th July – additions to February 1962 (Eastbourne to Clapham Junction)
25th July – additions to February 1962 (Clapham Junction)
27th July – additions to February 1962 (Clapham Junction, Paddington, Finsbury Park)
30th July – additions to February 1962 (St Pancras to Mexborough)
31st July – additions to February 1962 (Mexborough to Nottingham)
1st August – additions to February 1962 (Nottingham, Derby, Burton)
2nd August – additions to February 1962 (Nottingham to Sheffield)
4th August – additions to February 1962 (Nottingham to Southall via Banbury and Oxford)
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 