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Poll: What is the actual point?

of train spotting? Do you just wait for a train to come along, and then write down the number, or is there more to it? I've often wondered what it's all about.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    i don't get it either.

    then i heard about Planes, Ships & even

    eddie stobart lorry spotters.

    seriously imagine sitting by a main road/motorway, jotting down numbers & waving at lorry-drivers?

    they must have something lacking in their lives to do this.

    remember those Eye-Spy books we used to get when we were kids?

    i believe it's an expansion of that.

    some people grow-up, grow out of it & others just don't!

    sorry if i get any-ones back up but i don't understand Dolls House enthusiasts either.

    grown adults collecting Dolls, there's something about it that's JUST NOT RIGHT!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I think the train spotters take photographs of the trains too, takes all sorts to make the world go round.

  • 1 decade ago

    hmmmm thats about it

    what about the thrill of sitting there for hours looking at different trains?

    or drinking tea out of a flask on a camping chair?

    cant you see the thrill?

    [*cough*]

  • Jeremy
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Weird.

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  • 1 decade ago

    I so didn't know that was an actual passtime. I thought it was just a movie with Ewan McGregor.

    Source(s): Life.
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    No idea!!!!

    At the Epsom Derby you actually get coach spotters!!!! lmao

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    old steam engines had number on them, it was the number of wheal it had ok I hope I help you with this Question if is pick me.

  • 1 decade ago

    i think its asecret org for secret agents to get together and exchange info same with the plane spotters no1 can seriously want to do it can they

  • 1 decade ago

    One of life's mysteries but each to their own I suppose.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Hmmmm. still they're usual harmless aren't they?

    Bit of a soft target really.

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