NRM Season of 'Ferroequinologists'

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Great quote of of trainspotting in the Telegraph (2nd September 2014).

The National Railway Museum in York is launching its first-ever trainspotting season to celebrate those who are known as “ferroequinologists” (students of iron horses).

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...1068116/A-new-platform-for-trainspotters.html

A new platform for trainspotters

With the National Railway Museum launching its first trainspotting season, the hobby is back in fashion

The National Railway Museum in York is launching its first-ever trainspotting season to celebrate those who are known as “ferroequinologists” (students of iron horses). Earlier this year, the museum issued a call to Britain’s trainspotters to come forward with their stories (some 300 responded), and archivists last week announced that they had discovered evidence of the earliest ever proponent of the hobby: a 14-year-old named Fanny Johnson, who kept a notebook of the locomotives roaring through London’s Westbourne Park in 1861. In her book, entitled “Names of Engines on the Great Western that I have Seen”, she painstakingly recorded nameplates such as Morning Star, Firefly and Eclipse.