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…..
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)
17th May – additions to July 1959 (Lancaster to Blackpool, Fleetwood, and London)
18th May – additions to September 1959 (London area); & to November 1959 (Waterloo to Eastleigh and Southampton)
19th May – additions to August 1964 (Birmingham to Bristol, Bath, and Taunton)
20th May – additions to July 1951 (Lancashire)
21st May – additions to September 1964 (Gloucester to Salisbury via Reading)
25th May additions to the photo page 1950s early 1960s – https://spottinglogs.co.uk/1950s-photographs/, plus additions to September 1964 (Salisbury to Birmingham via Basingstoke and Reading)
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 