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 –
25th/26th March – additions to August 1937 (Scotland)
27th March – additions to August 1937 (Edinburgh to Doncaster via Hull)
28th March – additions to July & August 1970 (Derby to Leeds and York) (York to Manchester)
29th March – additions to July & August 1964 (Hereford to Preston; with overnight at Crewe)
31st March – additions to August 1964 (Preston to Carlisle)
3rd April – additions to April 1938 (South Yorkshire & SW England)
6th April – additions to June 1938 (London to Leeds via Chesterfield & Bradford to London via Manchester)
8th April – additions to September 1962 (West Midlands)
11th April – additions to October 1962 (West Midlands and Cheshire)
12th April – additions to October 1962 (Birmingham to Brecon via Neath; and return)
13th April – additions to November 1962 (Birmingham to Derby)
14th April – additions to November 1962 (Eastbourne to Birmingham)
15th April – additions to August 1970 (Manchester to York; Stoke to Leeds)
17th April – additions to August 1970 (York overnight, Leeds to Manchester, and Crewe)
18th April – additions to August/September 1964 (Worcester, Gloucester and Bristol)
19th April – additions to January 1964 (Paddington to Swindon Works)
21st April – additions to May/June/July 1964 (Euston to Nuneaton, St Pancras to Nottingham
23rd April – additions to July 1964 (Ashford to Chatham and Dover; Kings Cross to Wakefield and Sheffield; Kings Cross to North Lincs and also Tees-side)
24th April – additions to July 1964 (Kings Cross to Doncaster via Nottingham and Sheffield, Kings Cross to Rotherham, also Hull and York)
25th April – additions to July 1964 (Kings Cross to Leeds & Bradford)
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 