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From: The Independent - London
Date: 19950514
Author:PHOTO-MONTAGE TERRY SEAGO; WORDS

JEROME K. Jerome, Brookside, Beethoven, Mappa Mundi, Axe Edge, Black Douglas, Vulcan Enterprise, Bolton Wanderer, Lady Godiva and Emile Zola: the entries in trainspotters' notebooks form an eccentric litany, a locomotives' bible. "Our friends take the piss, but we don't care," said a 17-year-old who had travelled up from Exeter in his half-term holidays to stand on a railway bridge in Cardiff. Note the "we don't care" - the trainspotter as underdog, the teenage rebel clued into a secret world, defiant and misunderstood.

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