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== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[Thomas the Tank Engine]]'' was created by an [[The Vicar|English Vicar]], the Rev. W. Awdry, showing that that stereotype can be [[Truth in Television]].
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*** And the occasional characters of the Fat Clergyman and the Thin Clergyman are [[Word of God|confirmed]] as Boston and Awdry [[Author Avatars]].
* One of the ''[[Discworld]]'' books discusses {{smallcaps|
** ''[[Discworld/Unseen Academicals|Unseen Academicals]]'' has a brief mention of a magazine for "Golem-spotters", suggesting that this has become the equivalent. It remains to be seen if Death has taken it up.
** ''[[Discworld/Raising Steam|Raising Steam]]'', the last of the non-YA ''Discworld'' books, is about the Disc's first train and steam engine. Sure enough, ones the permanent way has been set down, somebody in an anorak is there to spot the only train in existence as it goes by.
* One of the central characters in the fantasy novel "Palimpsest" by [[Catherynne M.
* The title of ''[[Trainspotting]]'' comes from a chapter in the novel called "Trainspotting at Leith Central Station". The joke is that the station is long-closed and derelict, so trainspotting there is an utterly pointless, dull and squalid experience, like most things the characters do.
* Watson from the ''[[Sherlock Holmes]]'' stories is occasionally noted to have a minor obsession with the rail system, including having memorized the London area schedules.
* ''[[Tunnel Vision]]'' by Keith Lowe has a Rail Enthusiast protagonist, who accepts a bet about doing a [[wikipedia:Tube Challenge|Tube Challenge]]... on the day before his wedding!
* In ''[[Notes From a Small Island]]'', Bill Bryson recounts being stuck sitting by a very chatty, very obsessive rail enthusiast on a train journey through Wales.
* In Sean McMullen's [[Greatwinter Trilogy]], 40th Century Australian civilization relies on wind- and human-powered trains for long-distance freight and passenger transport. Accordingly, there is a social club of trainspotters, some of whom harbor greater loyalty to the rails than they do their ostensible rulers.
* In ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]] - [[The Last Battle]]'', Edmund is described as “the sort of person who knows about trains.”
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