Trainspotters
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A trainspotter, railfan, rail buff, train buff, railway enthusiast or railway buff is a person who is interested in trains and rail transport systems. They have been common in the United Kingdom since the 1840s.[1]
Trainspotters often congregated on stations platforms and adjacent to favoured railway lines. In the 1950s a trainspotting platform was erected adjacent to the main line in Finsbury Park to make room for the trainspotters who gathered there.[2]
They often combine their interest with other hobbies, especially photography and videography, radio scanning, railway modelling, studying railroad history and participating in railway station and rolling stock preservation efforts. There are many magazines and websites for them, including Trains, Railfan & Railroad, The Railway Magazine, Locomotive Magazine, and Railway Gazette International.
Trainspotters Media
Railfan photographers in Belgium in September 2003, at the farewell of the NMBS/SNCB Class 51 locomotive
A train parade on a railway test circuit in Moscow, Russia. Railfans taking photos and videos of rolling stock
Bill Nye looks over the model railroad display at the Pasadena, California model train club
Steam locomotive hauling a rail fan train for the Uruguayan Railfan Association
A trainspotter photographing an N700 Series Shinkansen on the Tokaido Shinkansen line near Mount Fuji
Railfans taking train photos at the Japan Railways Group (JR) Tokyo train center
Railfans taking video of a moving restored train with steam locomotives during a fantrip taken in their auto
Railfans on a 1939 camera excursion train in the U.S. state of Ohio
References
- ↑ "Trainspotting | National Railway Museum". www.railwaymuseum.org.uk. Retrieved 2024-03-09.
- ↑ Bradley, Simon (2016). The Railways: Nation, Network and People. St Ives: Profile Books. pp. 522-525. ISBN 978-1846682131.