"train spotting" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 108:",
          "text": "One of my friends, the one who wept, did vow he'd never visit a bird observatory again and went back to train-spotting.",
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        "The hobby of collecting the numbers and names of locomotives seen at railway stations and other vantage points."
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          "word": "觀察火車 /观察火车"
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          "roman": "dūnhuǒchē",
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          "text": "[…] trainspotting mentality that thrives on the minutiae of whatever field with little regard for any contextual relevance such detail may have to the wider picture."
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      "roman": "guānchá huǒchē",
      "sense": "hobby of collecting locomotive numbers and names",
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      "word": "觀察火車 /观察火车"
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      "roman": "dūnhuǒchē",
      "sense": "hobby of collecting locomotive numbers and names",
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