Colin Gordon Maggs (born 1932) is a railway historian and the author of more than 100 books about British railways, particularly those in the southwest of

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. He has also written many

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and magazine articles about them and made several TV appearances and radio broadcasts on the subject. He was awarded an

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in 1993 for services to railway history and an honorary MA from the

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in 1995. A retired teacher, formerly deputy headmaster of

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Church of England school, he lives in Bath, Somerset. His publishers include Amberley (at Stroud,

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), Halsgrove (

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) and Countryside Books ( Newbury, Berkshire).

Bibliography (partial)

*Bristol Port Railway and Pier (Oakwood library of railway history) (1975) *East Somerset Railway, 1858-1972 (1977) *Bath to Weymouth Line (Locomotion Papers) (1982) *Honeybourne Line (1985) *Birmingham to Gloucester Line (1986) *The Barnstaple and Ilfracombe Railway (Locomotion Papers) (1988) *The Calne Branch (1990) *The Last Years of the Somerset & Dorset (1991) *Branch Lines of Wiltshire (Transport/Railway) (1992) *The Bath Tramways (Locomotion Papers) (1992) *The Last Days of Steam in Bristol and Somerset (1992) *Sidmouth and Budleigh Salterton Branches (Locomotion Papers) (1996) *The Exeter and Exmouth Railway (Locomotion Papers) (1997) *Minehead Branch and West Somerset Railway (Locomotion Papers) (1998) *Steam: Tales from the Footplate (2000) *The Nailsworth and Stroud Branch (Locomotion Papers) (2000) *The Bristol to Bath Line (2001) *The Yate to Thornbury Branch (Locomotion Papers) (2002) *Rail Centres: Exeter No. 5 (2005) *Culm Valley Light Railway: Tiverton Junction to Hemyock (Locomotion Papers) (2006) *Swindon (Rail Centres) (2007) *Bristol (Rail Centres) (2008) *Britain's Railways in Colour: BR Steam in the 1950s and 1960s (2009) *Bristol & Bath Railways (2011) *Britain's Railways in Colour: BR Diesels in the 1960s and 70s (2010) *The Branch Lines of Buckinghamshire (2010) *The Branch Lines of Warwickshire (2011) *The Minehead Branch and the West Somerset Railway (Locomotion Papers) (2011) *The Branch Lines of Gloucestershire (2011) *The Branch Lines of Dorset (2012) *A History of the Great Western Railway (2013)

References

External links

* https://archive.today/20130630200408/http://www.bookish.com/authors/colin-g-maggs-mbe/ce95444e-5176-4fe9-ad90-69928ef54870 * https://archive.today/20130630200329/http://amberleybooks.com/shop/article_9781848683426/The-Branch-Lines-of-Buckinghamshire%3CBR%3E%3CI%3EColin-G.-Maggs%3C_I%3E.html * http://www.halsgrove.com/proddetail.php?prod=9781841149134 {{DEFAULTSORT:Maggs, Colin G. Living people Rail transport writers Railway historians People from Bath, Somerset Members of the Order of the British Empire 1932 births