trainspottingn.
/ˈtreɪnˌspɒtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈtreɪnˌspɑdɪŋ/ The hobby or activity of observing trains and recording railway locomotive numbers, sometimes with other details.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > hobby > spotting trains, watching birds, etc. > [noun]
bird-spotting1926
trainspotting1951
loco-spotting1952
gricing1968
grice1971
twitching1977
1951 Times 4 Dec. 6/2 Train spotting is forbidden..at Tamworth.
1983 C. V. Allen Memories (1998) i. 10 Mother..appeared quite comfortable with the new Colin, who prattled on about his free-time occupations—trainspotting, model-making, bird-watching, experiments with his chemical set—and no longer cried about being away from his home.
2004 D. St. J. Thomas Journey through Brit. (2005) viii. 166 It seemed the most natural thing in the world to go to work in the station at which I had done my boyhood train-spotting.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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