Annie of Going Underground is right. Pantomime celebrity spotting on the tube is indeed an order of magnitude sadder than mere trainspotting. It’s in the same league as the possibly apocryphal people that collect the numbers of shipping containers.
But then I’ve been told off on at least one model railway mailing list for saying that I though wagon spotters are sad. They’re the people that aren’t satisfied by just collecting the numbers of the locomotives, but all the freight wagons behind them as well.
I read somewhere that the average life of an intermodal container is just 10 years.
At least if you are an HAA spotter they have stuck around a bit longer…