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 […]
My latest completed proofreading project is one for Crecy Publishing, this being the 50th edition of the ‘Southern Way’ magazine, a splendid collection of articles and pictures all having in common a connection with either the pre-Grouping companies that made up the Southern Railway, the Southern itself or the Southern Region of BR. This is […]
I have today finished a further railway proofread for Pen & Sword Books. The subject was the former Worcester Locomotive Shed at the end of Western Region steam, from 1960 to 1966. The author is Steve Bartlett, who has previously written books about the sheds at Hereford and Gloucester. Mr Bartlett’s father occupied senior positions […]
I have just completed a further proofreading project for Pen & Sword Books, on a new (for me) subject. This one is a history of the tin mining industry in Devon and Cornwall. Written by historian Anthony Burton, the manuscript traces the rise and fall of this unique industry and of those who were involved […]
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