I have just completed a new proofreading project for Pen & Sword Books, this one about the former Great Central Railway, but from a financial point of view. Author John Palmer has done a considerable job in researching and writing this new book, which looks at the financial background to the original GCR, how financial […]
I have just finished a further railway proofreading project for Pen & Sword Books, this one being a biography of Arthur Peppercorn, the last Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER). This was a further manuscript written by Tim Hillier-Graves, and follows on from his previous works about the LNER’s […]
A recent proofreading project that I have successfully completed was one for Crecy Publishing, this being Southern Way 51. I have worked on a number of previous editions of this magazine and hope to work on further editions in the future. The magazine appears four times per annum and is made up of articles all […]
I have recently gained a new customer who has made use of my proofreading services. This is Transport Treasury (TT) at High Wycombe. The company started as an organisation who procured collections of railway photographs from different sources and, in the time that they have been doing this, have built up a large bank of […]
I have today completed a new railway proofread for Pen & Sword Books, this one being a biography about Edward Thompson, who was Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Eastern Railway from 1941 until his retirement in 1946. The author is Tim Hillier-Graves and the manuscript is one of the most enjoyable that […]
A further completed railway proofreading project has just left my desk bound for Pen & Sword Books. This one draws on the collective memories of eight men who lived in and around the Barnsley and surrounding area of Yorkshire. As boys they were all interested in railways and they each describe their days train-spotting together […]
My latest proofreading project which I have undertaken for Pen & Sword Books is a picture book looking at Scottish Railways during what could be described as the ‘Sectorisation’ period of the British Rail system during the 1980s and early 1990s. Drawing on the photographic collection of author Peter J. Green, the reader is taken […]
My latest completed proofreading project for Pen & Sword Books has been on a railway subject, this one entitled ‘Steam Across The Regions’. It draws on the photograph collection of David Knapman and is a ‘journey’ across Britain, covering all the regions of BR. The 1960s are the period of time covered, although Mr Knapman […]
My latest railway proofreading project for Pen & Sword Books has been a picture book highlighting a cross-section of the many standard gauge steam locomotives that have been preserved in the UK. The book draws on the photographic collections of author Malcolm Clegg and colleague Peter Cookson to draw attention to the pre-preservation careers of […]
I have today completed a further proofreading project for Pen & Sword Books, the subject matter being the ‘Railways of Oxford’. The manuscript describes how the railway system evolved in and around Oxford. The author, Laurence Waters, wrote a previous book on the same subject for Ian Allan Publishing during the 1980s. The new work […]
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