To each his own I guess. I don't think it's odd when people take film and photos of different trains coming in and out of stations.
What I do find odd is when people write down the carriage numbers of modern trains....i mean they are a 8 figure or so number. Try doing that to a 12 carriage train when it zooms past you.
I would love to travel extensively around the world by train.
When I was at school, my friends were either interested in fishing or train spotting. I did not take up either hobby but would often be on a train down to London whilst my friends were going somewhere to collect train numbers.
It's good to have a hobby and I never slate the trainspotter, good luck to them. Each to their own.
surely it's no odder than obsessions with football, cricket, tiddleywinks, stamp collecting, etc etc .. after all, train spotting does get one out of the house and into the fresh air now and then
Look at what Francis_Bourgeois43 posts on Instagram (and probably elsewhere). Classic train geek. Nice fella but perfectly illustrates the answer to the OP's question. Wears odd clothes, laughs like a manic when an old train goes past him, goes train spotting anywhere in the UK to see a particular locomotive going past for 10 seconds. I can see why people might find this odd behaviour...
Look at what Francis_Bourgeois43 posts on Instagram (and probably elsewhere). Classic train geek. Nice fella but perfectly illustrates the answer to the OP's question. Wears odd clothes, laughs like a manic when an old train goes past him, goes train spotting anywhere in the UK to see a particular locomotive going past for 10 seconds. I can see why people might find this odd behaviour...
Francis Bourgeois is making a mint out of his love of trains, just watching his face cam and listening to his enthusiasm about trains makes you smile. As someone who has worked in the rail industry for over 50 years, I can testify to the great British publics love affair or otherwise with trains, a bit like the British weather, when it's good it's a pleasure but when it's bad it's depressing. Have to say that if the rest of this country had the rail links that serve the South East and London this would be a very much better place to live, as the wealth would be more evenly distributed, Italy has the same problem, all the wealth centred in the north with great rail links, down in the south it's almost third world trying to negotiate the Amalfi coast.
Look at what Francis_Bourgeois43 posts on Instagram (and probably elsewhere). Classic train geek. Nice fella but perfectly illustrates the answer to the OP's question. Wears odd clothes, laughs like a manic when an old train goes past him, goes train spotting anywhere in the UK to see a particular locomotive going past for 10 seconds. I can see why people might find this odd behaviour...
Checking his account, he has 2.4m followers. Nice moquette bag in the second video incidentally!
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What I do find odd is when people write down the carriage numbers of modern trains....i mean they are a 8 figure or so number. Try doing that to a 12 carriage train when it zooms past you.
Nice fella but perfectly illustrates the answer to the OP's question. Wears odd clothes, laughs like a manic when an old train goes past him, goes train spotting anywhere in the UK to see a particular locomotive going past for 10 seconds.
I can see why people might find this odd behaviour...