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. (Apparently, the site exceeds my monthly search limits at times – and if you get an error message towards the end of the month, this will probably be the reason). Apologies, but the monthly costs of adding unlimited searches is beyond my budget.
Each year’s page can be reached from this page – although they are also accessible independently by the urls. (Please scroll down). The logic is quite simple with each year page having almost identical addresses.
I plan to add the years 1984 – 1992 in the future, but this may take a while, due to time constraints in compiling the pages. Also, I have recently purchased some older spotting notes from 1939-41, and will have to widen the scope of the site without changing the web address.
I reckon there are now well over 300,000 individual locomotive records on this site (there are almost 13,000 each from 1956, 1963 and 1981), with more to be added; and because of this I have introduced an index page of locations at –
http://www.spottinglogs.co.uk/index-to-loco-sheds/
It has taken me a while to work out the address of the original photo pages, because it seemed to change when I added these spotting pages – it is…..
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.
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 AND PHOTO PAGES –
I have also attempted to create a page called Portfolio with links to as many photo pages as possible. This may make navigation easier.
7th April – new pages created called “New BR Locomotives”. This is an ongoing project to list new locomotives on a monthly basis. Only 1958 to 1961 are full years at present, although 1962 is almost complete. The links to individual pages are found from the main page below.
8th April – additions to 1983 (West Midlands)
12th April – additions to Sep 1983 (West Midlands, Southeast England, East Midlands)
16th April – additions to Easter 1961 (Carlisle)
17th April – additions to Jan, Apr 1961 (East Midlands, Northwest England)
18th April – additions to May 1961 (Northwest England)
19th April – additions to June 1961 (Yorkshire)
22nd April – additions to Nov 1961 (Greater Manchester)
24th April – additions to Autumn 1983 (West Midlands, Scotland)
26th April – additions to June 1961 (Yorkshire, South Wales)
28th April – additions to Autumn 1983 (West Midlands, Cheshire)
29th April – additions to Summer 1961 (South Wales, Scotland)
3rd & 4th May – additions to August 1961 (Scotland)
6th May – additions to Aug & Sep 1961 (NW England and Greater London)
7th May – additions to November 1983 (West Midlands), & Summer 1964 (London, Thames Valley)
As mentioned above, the links to individual photograph pages can be found by clicking on the ‘Portfolio’ name in the box below. (then click on the name in each box for the various pages)
The individual spotting note yearly pages are listed below:-
1939. http://www.spottinglogs.co.uk/1939-2/
1940. http://www.spottinglogs.co.uk/1940-2/
1941. http://www.spottinglogs.co.uk/1941-2/
1943. http://www.spottinglogs.co.uk/1943-2/
1945. http://www.spottinglogs.co.uk/1945-2/
1946/7. http://www.spottinglogs.co.uk/1947-to-1950/ (This page was the old 4 year one but I kept the link).
1948. http://www.spottinglogs.co.uk/1948-2/
1949. http://www.spottinglogs.co.uk/1949-2/
1950. http://www.spottinglogs.co.uk/1950-2/
1951. http://www.spottinglogs.co.uk/1951-2/
1952. http://www.spottinglogs.co.uk/1952-2/
1953. http://www.spottinglogs.co.uk/1953-2/
1954. http://www.spottinglogs.co.uk/1954-2/
1955. http://www.spottinglogs.co.uk/1955-2/
1956. http://www.spottinglogs.co.uk/1956-2/
1957. http://www.spottinglogs.co.uk/1957-2/
1958. http://www.spottinglogs.co.uk/1958-2/
1959. http://www.spottinglogs.co.uk/1959-2/
1960. http://www.spottinglogs.co.uk/1960-2/
1961. http://www.spottinglogs.co.uk/1961-2/
1962. http://www.spottinglogs.co.uk/1962-2/
1963. http://www.spottinglogs.co.uk/1963-2/
1964. http://www.spottinglogs.co.uk/1964-2/
1965. http://www.spottinglogs.co.uk/1965-2/
1966. http://www.spottinglogs.co.uk/1966-2/
1967. http://www.spottinglogs.co.uk/1967-2/
1968. http://www.spottinglogs.co.uk/1968-2/
1969. http://www.spottinglogs.co.uk/1969-2/
1970. http://www.spottinglogs.co.uk/1970-2/
1971. http://www.spottinglogs.co.uk/1971-2/
1972. http://www.spottinglogs.co.uk/1972-2/
1973. http://www.spottinglogs.co.uk/1973-2/
1974. http://www.spottinglogs.co.uk/1974-2/
1975. http://www.spottinglogs.co.uk/1975-2/
1976. http://www.spottinglogs.co.uk/1976-2/
1977. http://www.spottinglogs.co.uk/1977-2/
1978. http://www.spottinglogs.co.uk/1978-2/
1979. http://www.spottinglogs.co.uk/1979-2/
1980. http://www.spottinglogs.co.uk/1980-2/
1981. http://www.spottinglogs.co.uk/1981-2/
1982. http://www.spottinglogs.co.uk/1982-2/
1983. http://www.spottinglogs.co.uk/1983-2/
1984. http://www.spottinglogs.co.uk/1984-2/
1986. http://www.spottinglogs.co.uk/1986-2/
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
wild_boar_fell@outlook.com
and I will do the rest.
Trainspotting data from 1947 until 1980 