Re: age articles

[John Cleverdon <johnc@cdi.com.au>]

Thommo wrote:

> Todays sunday Age 1.8.99 had an interesting but brief article in Escape 4
> under heading Teen Odyssey Peter Hanlon meets possibly the world's youngest
> and weirdest trainspotter.  I had a brief chuckle to myself reading  about a
> young English lad riding the system taking notes and recording numbers much
> to the bemusement of the author.

Well, I've been collecting locomotive numbers since I was 13, and have now seen
around 1260 (from around the country).
Although this may seem very gunzellish :-), it eventually led to Locopage, which
has been quite successful.

Incidentally, am I the only "locospotter" in Australia, or are there others as
well?
Interesting to see that trainspotting seems to be most common in the UK - that's
where most eccentrics apparently live.

John
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