The site is separated into sections:

A FULL LIST OF OBSERVATIONS:
The unabridged list of all observations at Chesterfield and around the country from 1981 to 1992. This section is included for completeness but can be "heavy going" particularly from 1987 onwards as most consists are not of complete sets. Selective vehicles are included if they were a first time sighting, a renumbering or a first time sighting at Chesterfield.

STATION OBSERVATIONS:
This section lists complete consists observed at numerous stations around the country with the train locomotive and the working if known.

TIMETABLED WORKINGS:
This section lists complete consists of timetabled workings listed by originating station.

SLEEPER TRAINS:
Lists of complete consists of sleeper workings on the West Coast, East Coast, South West and Scottish Internal lines with train locomotives and the working if known.

EXCURSION & CHARTER TRAINS:
Excursions, charters, footexs etc. from 1981 to 1986.

EXHIBITION TRAINS:
Lists of exhibition train workings in the 1980s.

CARRIAGE SIDINGS:
Bunks, err... visits round carriage sidings, yards and works, these are complete lists not passing views.

The Rolling Stock Observer - introduction

Greetings! Not only did I mis-spend my youth trainspotting but I also mis-spent it "collecting" coaching stock numbers. I have a fascination with numbers (somebody has to!) I did numerous "overnighters", traipsed round carriage sidings in the dead of night, visited scrapyards and railway depots for those elusive departmental vehicles and had a wonderful and exciting time - I was young then.

What is The Rolling Stock Observer?
Detailed observations of passenger and non-passenger carrying coaches and departmental stock observed at Chesterfield and around the country in the 1980s and beyond.

Who is it for?
I have no idea why anyone would be remotely interested in such a thing but if you want to know what coaches formed what trains and when then this may be a helpful piece of reference work - or it may not! It could be useful for historians, modellers and anyone requiring detailed information about railway operations from a bygone age - perhaps?