Peter Johnson is a British railway historian and author who specialises in books and articles on
narrow-gauge railways
A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge (distance between the rails) narrower than . Most narrow-gauge railways are between and .
Since narrow-gauge railways are usually built with Minimum railw ...
. He is particularly associated with the
Ffestiniog Railway
The Ffestiniog Railway () is a heritage railway based on Narrow-gauge railway, narrow-gauge, located in Gwynedd, Wales. It is a major tourist attraction located mainly within the Snowdonia#Snowdonia National Park, Snowdonia National Park.
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History
Johnson is a retired local government officer
[ who lives in Leicester.]
Johnson is known for his "meticulous research into all aspects of the festiniograilway’s operation".[ He 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. In 2003 he was appointed the Festiniog Railway Company's official photographer.]
From June 1995 until Match 2019, Johnson contributed a monthly column of narrow gauge railway news for ''Steam Railway'' magazine; as of September 2017 he was the magazine's longest serving continuous contributor. Since 2006 he has written obituaries of prominent railway people for The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardi ...
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External links
Johnson's professional site
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English non-fiction writers
British rail transport writers
Railway historians
Historians of technology
English male non-fiction writers
20th-century English historians
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
British people associated with Heritage Railways