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According to Wikipedia, Jack Simmons was an English transport historian and emeritus professor of history at University of Leicester, known as a specialist in railway history. Biography Born on 30 August 1915 at Isleworth, Middlesex, Jack Simmons was the only child of Seymour Francis Simmons, a hosiery maker then serving in the Royal Fusiliers, and his wife, Katherine Lillias, daughter of Thomas Finch, a doctor from Babbacombe, Devon. His father was killed on the Somme in France in 1918. He and his mother settled after several years in Carshalton, Surrey. They continued to live together until her death in 1971. Simmons was educated at the independent Rushmore School in Bedford, at Westminster School and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated in modern history in 1937. He spent a year in France and then returned to Oxford as a professor's assistant.

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The Victorian Railway (1991) (65)
The history and antiquities of the county of Leicester (1971) (42)
The railway in town and country, 1830-1914 (1986) (34)
British imperial trusteeship, 1783-1850 (1953) (22)
The Oxford companion to British railway history : from 1603 to the 1990s (1997) (20)
Railways, Hotels, and Tourism in Great Britain 1839-1914 (1984) (19)
Welsh and Scottish nationalism : a study (1955) (17)
The Railway in England and Wales, 1830-1914. Vol. I: The System and Its Working. (1979) (15)
The Railways Of Britain (1961) (14)
Leicester past and present (1974) (12)
The Afterbirth of the Clinic: a Foucauldian perspective on "House M.D." and American medicine in the 21st century (2008) (11)
The Matabele Journals of Robert Moffat, 1829-1860 (1946) (10)
Removal, early hand rearing, and successful reintroduction of an orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus pygmaeus/x abelii) to her mother (1983) (9)
African discovery : an anthology of exploration (1942) (8)
The railways of Britain : an historical introduction (1962) (8)
St. Pancras Station (1968) (6)
Investigating the Attitudes Toward Science Fostered by the Process Approach Program. (1972) (5)
The Liverpool & Manchester Railway (1980) (4)
Forty Years on a Message from the Founding Editors (1993) (3)
The Pattern of Tube Railways in London: A Note on the Joint Select Committee of 1892 (1966) (3)
Livingstone and Africa (1962) (3)
Transport museums in Britain and Western Europe (1970) (2)
The men who built railways : a reprint of F. R. Conder's Personal recollections of English engineers (1983) (2)
Leicester and its university (1957) (2)
The birth of the Great Western Railway: Extracts from the diary and correspondence of George Henry Gibbs; (1971) (2)
The Buildings of England: Leicestershire and Rutland . By Nikolaus Pevsner, revised by Elizabeth Williamson with Geoffrey W. Brandwood. 21 × 11 cm. Pp. 576, 29 figs. + 118 pls. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1984. ISBN 0-14-071018-3. £16·95. (1986) (2)
Reply to Heyneman's Comment (1980) (2)
A Devon anthology (1970) (2)
Local, national, and imperial history : an inaugural lecture delivered at University College Leicester, 16th February 1948 (1950) (2)
South Western v. Great Western: Railway Competition in Devon and Cornwall (1959) (2)
Train Spotting: Images of the Railway in Art, Nottingham Castle Museum. Castle Museum, Nottingham (1985), 52, £3.50 (1986) (1)
Suburban Traffic at King's Cross 1852–1914 (1985) (1)
BUSINESS RECORDS AND The HISTORIAN (1957) (1)
Journeys in England, an Anthology (1969) (1)
Railway History in English Local Records (1953) (1)
From Empire to Commonwealth : principles of British imperial government (1949) (1)
The Swiss Museum of Transport (1964) (0)
Review: Joseph Locke. Railway Revolutionary (1972) (0)
Book Review: First with the News: The History of W. H. Smith, 1792–1872 (1987) (0)
The Birth of the Great Western Railway (1972) (0)
Book Review: North Atlantic Seaway. (1956) (0)
English county historians: First series (1978) (0)
Review: Locomotive and Train Working in the Latter Part of the Nineteenth Century (1953) (0)
Britain and the world : a study of power and influence (1965) (0)
Review: Transportation in Modern England (1963) (0)
Review: Great Central (1960) (0)
The British Empire: its Structure and Spirit . By Eric A. Walker. 1943. Oxford University Press (for the Royal Institute of International Affairs). Pp. 250. 12 s . 6 d. (1943) (0)
Book Review: The Story of the Colne Valley. (1953) (0)
For and Against the Locomotive (1956) (0)
British Enterprise in Nigeria . By Arthur Norton Cook. 1943. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press; London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press. Pp. 330. 21s. 6d. (1944) (0)
Review: The Grand Trunk Railway of Canada (1958) (0)
Review: A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain (1961) (0)
Livingstone and Africa. Teach Yourself History Series (1956) (0)
The Scottish Records of the British Transport Commission (1958) (0)
The treasures of the catch tray (2003) (0)
Review: A Night to Remember, the Big Ships (1956) (0)
Review: LA FORMATION DU VOCABULAIRE DES CHEMINS DE FER EN FRANCE (1778–1842) (1955) (0)
Review: A History of British Railways down to the Year 1830 (1972) (0)
Railway History in English Local Records (1954) (0)
Ten Years of Transport History (1963) (0)
Race and Politics in Kenya . By Elspeth Huxley and Margery Perham. 1944. London: Faber & Faber. Pp. 247. 12 s . 6 d . (1944) (0)
Early Trains (1971) (0)
The University of Leicester (1957) (0)
Review: The Barry Railway (1963) (0)
A Holograph Letter from George Stephenson (1971) (0)
The Ontology of Perception in Cinema (1997) (0)
The Maryport and Carlisle Railway. (1949) (0)
Review: A Survey of the Roads of the United States of America (1962) (0)
County Borough. The History of Burton-upon-Trent 1901–74 (1976) (0)
A Bibliography for the Study of African History in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Compiled by Lowell Joseph Ragatz. 1943. Washington, D.C.: Paul Pearlman. Pp. vi + 47 (typescript). (1945) (0)
Review: A Picture History of Ships (1958) (0)
Book Review: Welsh Steam (1992) (0)
Review: The Southern Railway (1959) (0)
Review: The South Eastern Railway and the S.E., Locomotive and Train Working in the Latter Part of the Nineteenth Century (1954) (0)
A SUPPRESSED PASSAGE IN LIVINGSTONE'S LAST JOURNALS RELATING TO THE DEATH OF BARON VON DER DECKEN (1941) (0)
John Vaughan, The English Guide Book c. 1780–1870: an Illustrated History . Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1974. 167 pp. 79 illus. 1 table. Bibliography. £3·50. (1976) (0)
Transportation: a tour of museums (1970) (0)
Editorial (1953) (0)
The Railway in England and Wales, 1830-1914. Volume 1, The Systems and its Working (1979) (0)
History in Leicester, 55 BC-AD 1976 (1976) (0)
Review: Great Central (1966) (0)
Book Review: Beyer Peacock: Locomotive Builders to the World, Crewe Locomotive Works and its Men, Locomotive Boiler Explosions (1984) (0)
Rail 150: 1975 or 1980? (1980) (0)
Review: British Passenger Liners of the Five Oceans (1964) (0)
Review: The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway (1973) (0)
Book Review: The Swansea & Mumbles Railway. (1955) (0)
Change at King's Cross. (1992) (0)
The Elham Valley Railway . By Michael Forwood. 8¾×5½. Pp. viii + 88 + 24 pls. + 13 figs. London and Chichester: Phillimore, 1975. £3·50. (1976) (0)
Review: Great Central (1964) (0)
Book Reviews (1953) (0)
Review: The Victoria History of Yorkshire: The City of York (1962) (0)
Book Review: THE Victoria History of Wiltshire (1960) (0)
Gulf to Rockies: The Heritage of the Fort Worth and Denver-Colorado and Southern Railways, 1861–1898. By Richard C. Overton. Austin, University of Texas Press, 1953. Pp. xiv + 410. Illustrated. Maps. $5.00 (1954) (0)
The Matabele Mission . Edited by J. P. R. Wallis. London: Chatto a Windus. 1945. (Oppenheimer Series, no. 2.) Pp. xxxiii + 268. 30 s . (1946) (0)
Book Review: Locomotive and Train Working in the Latter Part of the Nineteenth Century. (1954) (0)
Review: The Splendour of Steam (1965) (0)

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