The Rolling Stock Observer

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

The Rolling Stock Observer?

It is detailed observations of passenger and non-passenger carrying coaches and departmental stock observed passing through my home town of Chesterfield and many many locations around the country from April 1981 to the end of 1986

overnights

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 and loved evey minute of it - but I was young then!

Who is it for?

The information may be of use to railway enthusiasts, historians, modellers and anyone requiring detailed information about actual coaching stock formations from a bygone age

npccs types

PMV

GUV

POS

A FULL LIST OF OBSERVATIONS
The unabridged list of all observations seen at Chesterfield and many locations around the country from April 1981 through 1986.

Incomplete consists and selective vehicles are included if they were a first time overall sighting, a first time sighting at Chesterfield or a renumbering.

This section is included for completeness but can be "heavy going".

TIMETABLED WORKINGS
This section lists complete consists of timetabled workings from the originating station from for each timetable year.

SLEEPERS
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.

THE TRAVELLING POST OFFICE (POSTAL)
This section lists complete consists of Postal trains also known as Travelling Post Offices listed by originating station.

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THE ROLLING STOCK OBSERVER