THOMAS, David St. John

THOMAS, David St. John. British, b. 1929. Genres: Transportation, Writing/Journalism. Career: David & Charles plc, chairman, 1960-90; David St John Thomas Publishers, chairman, 1989-94; Writers News, chairman, 1989-99. Publications: Trains Work Like This, 1959; Great Moments with Trains, 1960; A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: vol I: The West Country, 1960, 6th ed., 1987, as West Country Railway History, 1974, rev. ed., 1989; The Motor Revolution, 1961; (with G. Thomas) Double Two Generations of Railway Enthusiasm, 1963; The Rural Transport Problem, 1963; (with S. Rocksborough Smith) Summer Saturdays in the West, 1973; A Guide to Writing and Publishing (with H. Bermont, in U.S. as Getting Published), 1974; The Great Way West, 1975; The Country Railway, 1976; The Breakfast Book, 1980; (with P. Whitehouse) The Great Western Railway: 150 Glorious Years, 1984; (with P. Whitehouse) The Great Days of the Country Railway, 1986; (with P. Whitehouse) LMS: A Century and a Half of Progress, 1987; (with P. Whitehouse) LMS 150, 1988; (with P. Whitehouse) SR 150, 1988; (with P. Whitehouse) A Passion for Steam, 1989; (with P. Whitehouse) LNER 150, 1989; (with P. Whitehouse) The Great Days of Express Trains, 1990; The Cunard Book of Cruising, 1990; (with P. Whitehouse) BR in the Eighties, 1990; (with P. Whitehouse) The Great Days of the GWR, 1991; (with P. Whitehouse) The Great Days of the Southern Railway, 1992; (with P. Whitehouse) The Romance of Scotland's Railways, 1993; The Trains We Loved, 1994; Journey through Britain: Landscape, People and Books, 2004. Address: Publisher, PO Box 6055, Nairn 1V12 4YB, Scotland.