0 someone who enjoys trainspotting (= watching trains and collecting their numbers) as a hobby:
I am not a trainspotter but a very frustrated frequent rail traveller.
He was an avid trainspotter.
There's always a "trainspotter" element in any specialist field, and those people want to know every exact detail.
I almost got the impression that while trainspotters have a—perhaps unwarranted—bad name, end of life vehicle spotters have an even worse one.
Do not exchange comments with a trainspotter.
A trainspotter typically uses a data book listing the locomotives or equipment in question, in which locomotives seen are ticked off.
It is a misconception that all railfans are trainspotters.
When a trainspotter sees a train that they have not yet seen before, it is referred to in the hobby as a cop.
