| 词条 | Bus spotting |
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Bus spotters are often uninterested in timetables and network quality, but they may be interested in new liveries, especially ad-hoc schemes to advertise particular products or events. 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. Bus spotting has never been as popular as train spotting in the UK, but enthusiasts can share the common term of "gricer"; however it has become popular in Hong Kong and Singapore and bus societies have been formed there. Bus spotters often enjoy riding buses and photographing them. Since bus spotting involves urban mass transit, it often goes hand in hand with metrophily. In New York, the two are often combined into "transit fan", a person who studies both bus and rail rapid transit, with the same diligence. Bus enthusiast"Bus enthusiasts" do more than spot buses: they are interested not just in vehicles, but also in the operation of bus companies and their fleets in general, and may include "bus preservationists" who buy, restore and run vintage vehicles. Bus enthusiasts may list or trace the whereabouts of surviving retired vehicles from a particular operator or collect scale models which may be customised to replicate particular vehicles or entire fleets. They may also collect uniforms and paraphernalia, such as conductors' ticket machines, in order to dress the part at events. Bus spotter societies may organise "fan charters" by chartering a bus of choice and photographing it on different parts of the chosen route. Bus outings that take in a number of depots, with photographic tours of each, are also popular. Bus spotters and enthusiasts are often found at major bus termini, bus depots, bus rallies and anywhere related to buses. There are a number of magazines aimed at bus enthusiasts and spotters, e.g. Buses Magazine. See also{{Portal|Buses}}{{Commons category|Bus spotting}}
References1. ^{{cite book|author=Nathan Belofsky|title=The Book of Strange and Curious Legal Oddities: Pizza Police, Illicit Fishbowls, and Other Anomalies of the Law That Make Us All Unsuspecting Criminals|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zff7aLA3toMC&pg=PT97|date=3 August 2010|publisher=Penguin Publishing Group|isbn=978-1-101-18896-5|pages=97–}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Bus Spotting}}2. ^{{Cite web| title = Forget selfies and One Direction, this teenager is a bus spotter| last = McCarthy | first = James| work = WalesOnline| date = 4 July 2015| accessdate = 30 August 2017| url = http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/forget-selfies-listening-one-direction-9586170}} 3. ^{{cite book|author1=Hermann H. Field|author2=Hermann Field|author3=Kate Field|title=Trapped in the Cold War: The Ordeal of an American Family|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YBIyiXMu0uUC&pg=PA275|year=2002|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=978-0-8047-4431-7|pages=275–}} 2 : Bus transport|Observation hobbies |
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