Peter Johnson (railway historian)

Peter Johnson is a British railway historian[1] and author who specialises in books and articles on narrow-gauge railways. He is particularly associated with the Ffestiniog Railway.

History

Johnson is a retired a local government officer.[2]

Johnson was a director of the Ffestiniog Railway Society from 1991 to 2003 and editor (originally jointly with Norman Gurley and Dan Wilson) of the Festiniog Railway Society Magazine from 1974 to 2003.[3] In 2003 he was appointed the Festiniog Railway Company's official photographer.[2]

In June 1995, Johnson started writing a monthly column for Steam Railway magazine; as of September 2017 he was the magazine's longest serving continuous contributor.[4] Since 2006 he has written obituaries of prominent railway people for The Guardian newspaper.[5]

Works
  • Johnson, Peter (1984). Rails in Wales - The Cambrian Lines. Ian Allan.
  • —— (1986). Festiniog Railway Gravity Trains. Festiniog Railway Heritage Group.
  • —— (1987). Festiniog 150th Anniversary.
  • Johnson, Weaver, Ingham & Rees (1988). Festiniog Railway Locomotives.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • —— (1992). Portrait of the Festiniog.
  • Peter Johnson and Michael Whitehouse (1995). Festiniog in Colour.
  • —— (1997). Festiniog railway - A View from the Past.
  • —— (2002). An Illustrated History of the Welsh Highland Railway. Hersham: Oxford Publishing Co. ISBN 9780860935650. OCLC 59498388.
  • —— (2004). Immortal Rails (Vol 1) The Story of the Closure and Revival of the FR 1939-1983. Chester, England, CH4 9ZH: RailRomances. ISBN 1-900622-08-4.CS1 maint: location (link)
  • —— (2005). Immortal Rails (Vol 2) The Story of the Closure and Revival of the FR 1939-1983. Chester, England, CH4 9ZH: RailRomances. ISBN 1-900622-09-2.CS1 maint: location (link)
  • —— (2007). An Illustrated History of the Festiniog Railway. Hersham: Oxford Publishing Co. ISBN 0-860936-03-1.
  • —— (2008). An Illustrated History of the Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Light Railway. Oxford Publishing Company. ISBN 0860936198.
  • —— (2010). An Illustrated History of the Snowdon Mountain Railway. Oxford Publishing Co.
  • —— (2011). An Illustrated History of the Great Western Narrow Gauge. Oxford Publishing Co.
  • —— (2013). The Cambrian Railways - a new history. Oxford Publishing Co. ISBN 978 0 86093 644 2.
  • —— (2017). Festiniog Railway: The Spooner Era and After 1830-1920. Pen & Sword Transport.
  • —— (30 October 2017). Festiniog Railway. Volume 2: From Slate Railway to Heritage Operation 1921 - 2014. Pen and Sword.
  • —— (August 2018). Rebuilding the Welsh Highland Railway. Pen & Sword Transport. ISBN 1473827272.

References
  1. Cleve R. Wootson Jr. (22 June 2017). "Secret tunnels were hidden beneath London since WWI. Soon you can visit them". The Washington Post.
  2. "About the author". Pen & Sword Books. 2017.
  3. "Festiniog Railway Magazine" (081). p. 027.
  4. "Steam Railway: Meet the team".
  5. "Contributions by Peter Johnson". The Guardian.
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