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en-wikipedia-org-7872		Jack Simmons (historian) - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	1292	189	69	Jack Simmons OBE (30 August 1915 – 3 September 2000) was an English transport historian and emeritus professor of history at University of Leicester, known as a specialist in railway history.[1] Simmons had been joined at Christ Church in 1934 by Michael Robbins, a school friend from Westminster, who shared his abiding interest in railways. He and Robbins launched in 1953 The Journal of Transport History, which is still published today.[5] Simmons himself edited it until 1973.[6] His many books in this field began with The Railways of Britain: an Historical Introduction (1961), included the meticulous "biography" of St Pancras Station (1968), and culminated in The Oxford Companion to British Railway History (1997), edited and compiled with Gordon Biddle.[3][7] Simmons was active in the foundation in 1975 of the National Railway Museum at York, where a reading room in the library was named after him.[2] He also worked with London Transport on its new London Transport Museum in Covent Garden.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7872.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7872.txt