Colin G. Maggs

Colin G. Maggs is a railway historian and the author of more than 60 books about British railways, particularly those in the southwest of England. He has also written innumerable newspaper and magazine articles about them and made several TV and radio appearances on the subject.

He was awarded an MBE in 1993 for services to railway history and an honorary MA from the University of Bath in 1995.^[1] A retired teacher, he lives in Bath, Somerset.

His publishers include Amberley (at Stroud, Gloucestershire), Halsgrove (Wellington, Somerset) 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)
• Branch Lines of Wiltshire (Transport/Railway) (1992)
• The Bath Tramways (Locomotion Papers) (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)
• 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

• http://www.bookish.com/authors/colin-g-maggs-mbe/ce95444e-5176-4fe9-ad90-69928ef54870
• https://archive.is/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