Cyril John Freezer (27 June 1924 – 19 May 2009) was an English railway modeller, writer, and magazine editor.

[1] Training as an engineer in a dockyard on the Isle of Dogs and working for Associated Press, he started as editor of the Railway Modeller magazine.

[4] In 2007 the Diesel and Electric Modellers United (DEMU) ran a small layout competition to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the plan's publication.

The competition was to build and exhibit a layout based on the Minories trackplan and was judged by Cyril's son Nick.

A number of exceptionally high quality layouts were entered including "Ripper Street", "Minories GN" and "Westonmouth Central".