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Oswald Stevens Nock (1904–1994), usually known as O.S. Nock, was a British railway author and signal engineer by profession. Educated at Giggleswick School and Imperial College, he authored more than 140 books and 1000 magazine articles, which are often considered to be less than authoritative because of his voluminous output. He tended to re-use data, text and anecdotes in different books, including paragraphs culled in their entirety (check similarities in "Steam Locomotive" 1957 & "British Steam Railways" 1962).^{citation needed} Having said that, Nock's style is easily read and he explains engineering issues in layman's terms, making the subject more accessible. His continuation of E. L. Ahrons' work, continuing steam locomotive development from 1925, is much more friendly to the layman or armchair enthusiast than Ahrons' seminal work "The British Steam Railway Locomotive Volume 1 From 1825 to 1925". If his work is treated as a general picture of railways in action, from the personal viewpoint of someone who was there and who interacted with railway personnel at various levels, both professionally and in his leisure time, his output is reasonably valid.

In the 1960s and the 1980s he lived in Batheaston, near Bath.

Partial bibliography

• Steam Locomotive. 1957.
• Nock, O.S.; Cross, Derek (1960). Main Lines Across the Border, 1st edition, London: Nelson. OCLC 12273673. 
• Nock, O.S.; Cross, Derek (1982). Main Lines Across the Border, Revised edition, Shepperton: Ian Allan. ISBN 0-7110-1118-4. OCLC 11622324. 

• The South Eastern & Chatham Railway. 1961.
• British Steam Railways. 1962
• Nock, O.S. (1961). The Caledonian Railway, 1st edition, London: Ian Allan. OCLC 366646513. 
• Nock, O.S. (1964). The Caledonian Railway, 2nd edition, London: Ian Allan. OCLC 21002535. 
• Nock, O.S. (1973). The Caledonian Railway, 3rd edition, Shepperton: Ian Allan. ISBN 0-7110-0408-0. OCLC 16232981. 

• Steam Railways in Retrospect, A & C Black, London, 1966.
• North Western A history of the L.N.W.R. 1968
• The Railway Enthusiasts Encyclopedia, Hutchinson, 1968. ISBN 0-09-903310-0
• Speed Records on Britain's Railways, David & Charles, 1972. ISBN 0-330-23365-3
• Nock, O.S. (1974). Electric Euston to Glasgow, 1st edition, London: Ian Allan. ISBN 0-7110-0530-3. OCLC 2283378. 

• The Limited, George Allen & Unwin, 1979. ISBN 0-04-285073-1
• British Locomotives of the 20th Century Volume 1, 2 & 3. 1982
• Great British Trains. 1985
• Historic Railway Disasters

External links

• http://www.steamindex.com/library/nock.htm

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