James I C Boyd
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James Ian Craig Boyd is an author and narrow gauge railway historian.
Boyd has spent a lifetime researching and writing on this subject. As a result his books on narrow gauge railways in North and Mid Wales, the Isle of Man and Ireland are considered to be standard works on the subjectTemplate:Fqact. His books published by The Oakwood Press since 1965 are rarely out of print such is their importance to and popularity with railway historians and enthusiasts alike[citation needed].
[edit] Biography
Boyd was born in 1920 to a family connected for many years with the Scottish textile machinery industry. His lifelong labours of love have been helped considerably by inheritance from within the family and without which much of his work could not have been done.
In his formative years he was fortunate enough to have W. H. Auden as an English teacher and to be taught mathematics and science by Jeffrey Hoyland, a qualified railway engineer.
Boyd lives in Colwell, Herefordshire.
[edit] Selected bibliogrpahy
- The Festiniog Railway, Volume 1, History and the Route. ISBN 0-85361-167-X
- The Festiniog Railway, Volume 2, Locomotives and Rolling Stock, Quarries & Branches, Rebirth 1954-1974. ISBN 0-85361-168-8
- Narrow Gauge Railways in Noth Caernarvonshire, Volume 1, The West. ISBN 0853612730
- Narrow Gauge Railways in North Caernarvonshire, Volume 2, The Penrhyn Quarry Railways. ISBN 0-85361-312-5
- Narrow Gauge Railways in North Caernarvonshire, Volume 3, The Dinorwic Quarry and Railways, Great Orme Tramway and other rail systems. ISBN 0-85361-328-1
- Narrow Gauge Railways in South Caernarvonshire, Volume 2, The Welsh Highland Railway. ISBN 0-85361-383-4
- The Isle of Man Railway, Volume 1, Pre-1873-1904. ISBN 0-85361-444-X
- The Isle of Man Railway, Volume 2, 1905-1994. ISBN 0-85361-469-5
- The Isle of Man Railway, Volume 3, The Routes and Rolling Stock. ISBN 0-85361-479-2
- Schull and Skibbereen Railway. ISBN 0-85361-534-9
- Wrexham, Mold & Connah's Quay Railway. ISBN 0-85361-417-2
