Bus spotting
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Bus spotting is the interest and activity of watching, photographing and tracking buses throughout their working service lives within bus companies. A person who engages in these activities is known as a bus spotter, bus fan, bus nut (colloquial British English) or bus enthusiast.<ref name="Belofsky2010">Template:Cite book</ref>
There are many enthusiasts of the bus and coach industry across the globe. Like train and aircraft spotters, bus spotters activities include monitoring bus route allocations, sharing knowledge about buses and taking pictures of buses.<ref name="wale_Forg">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="FieldField2002">Template:Cite book</ref> Some may be so keen that they might track a vehicle through its life, knowing for example which fleet numbers it has carried with different owners and when mechanical parts or interior fittings were renewed.Template:Citation needed
Since bus spotting involves urban mass transit, it often goes hand in hand with metrophily. Such enthusiasts can be known as "transit fans".
There are a number of magazines aimed at bus enthusiasts and spotters, e.g. Buses Magazine.
Preservation of busesEdit
Template:See also Some bus spotters may list or trace the whereabouts of surviving retired vehicles from a particular operator to purchase them for preservation purposes. The preserved buses can then be taken out to be driven either on discontinued services or through a set route for an event.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
GalleryEdit
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Bus spotters photographing a bus in Southampton, UK
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Bus fans in Hong Kong
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Teenage and adult bus spotters in Indonesia
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