P. J. G. Ransom

Philip John Greer Ransom, or John Ransom, (24 September 1935 – 27 March 2019) was a British non-fiction author, principally covering railway, canal and local history. He was also hon. secretary of the Scottish Committee of the Heritage Railway Association.

Books

Holiday Cruising in Ireland, David & Charles, 1971 Railways Revived, Faber & Faber, 1973 Waterways Restored, Faber & Faber, 1974 Your Book of Canals, Faber & Faber, 1977 The Archaeology of Canals, World's Work, 1979 The Archaeology of Railways, World's Work, 1981 Your Book of Steam Railway Preservation, Faber & Faber, 1982 The Archaeology of the Transport Revolution 1750–1850, World's Work, 1984 Transport in Scotland through the Ages, Richard Drew Publishing, 1987 Scottish Steam Today, Richard Drew Publishing, 1989 The Victorian Railway and How It Evolved, Heinemann, 1990 Loch Earn: A Guide for Visitors, Particularly Those Going Afloat, author, 1994 Narrow Gauge Steam – Its Origins and Worldwide Development, Oxford Publishing Co., 1996 Scotland's Inland Waterways, NMS Publishing, 1999 The Mont Cenis Fell Railway, Twelveheads Press, 1999 Locomotion: Two Centuries of Train Travel, Sutton Publishing, 2001 Snow, Flood and Tempest: Railways and Natural Disasters, Ian Allan Publishing, 2001 Loch Lomond and the Trossachs in History and Legend, Birlinn, 2004 Iron Road: The Railway in Scotland, Birlinn, 2007, 2013 Steamers of Loch Lomond, Stenlake Publishing Ltd, 2007 (text researched and written to accompany pictures selected from publisher's collection) Old Loch Lomondside, Stenlake Publishing Ltd, 2007 (text researched and written to accompany pictures selected from publisher's collection) Old Almondbank, Methven and Glenalmond, Stenlake Publishing Ltd, 2010 (text researched and written to accompany pictures selected from publisher's collection) Old Arrochar and Loch Long, Stenlake Publishing Ltd, 2011 (text researched and written to accompany pictures selected from publisher's collection) Bell's Comet – How a Paddle Steamer Changed the Course of History, Amberley Publishing, 2012 Old Dunkeld and Birnam, Stenlake Publishing Ltd, 2012 (text researched and written to accompany pictures selected from publisher's collection) Old Stanley, Stenlake Publishing Ltd, 2013 (text researched and written to accompany pictures selected from publisher's collection)

In addition contributed to the following multi-author works Steam into the Seventies, New English Library, 1976 (section on North York Moors Railway) Encyclopaedia of Railways, Octopus, 1977 (section on railway preservation) A Guide to the Steam Railways of Great Britain, Pelham Books, 1979 (section on Wales) Encyclopaedia of the History of Technology, Routledge, 1990 (section on railways) Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology, Routledge, 1996 (79 short biographies of railway engineers) Oxford Companion to British Railway History, edited by Jack Simmons & Gordon Biddle, Oxford University Press, 1997 (12 articles) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 (3 articles on railway engineers) Scottish Life and Society: A Compendium of Scottish Ethnology, vol. 8, Transport and Communications John Donald in association with European Ethnological Research Centre 2009 (Three chapters: Canals and Inland Waterways; Coaching; Railways to 1914).