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] Mr Maggs trained for teaching at Westminster College, Oxford, Horseferry Road, London SW, from 1952 to 1954.
[3] His publishers include Amberley (at Stroud, Gloucestershire), Halsgrove (Wellington, Somerset) and Countryside Books (Newbury, Berkshire).