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Colin Gordon Maggs (born 1932)[1] is a railway historian and the author of more than 100 books about British railways, particularly those in the southwest of England. He has also written many newspaper and magazine articles about them and made several TV appearances and radio broadcasts 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.[2] A retired teacher, formerly deputy headmaster of Batheaston Church of England school, he lives in Bath, Somerset.[1]
His publishers include Amberley (at Stroud, Gloucestershire), Halsgrove (Wellington, Somerset) and Countryside Books (Newbury, Berkshire).
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- ^ "Honorary Graduates 1989 to present". University of Bath. Archived from the original on 19 December 2015. Retrieved 8 October 2014.