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    Career railwayman and author of 120 books, Geoff Body dies aged 91

    Mar 10, 2020 3 minutes
    By Geoff Courtney
    GEOFF BODY COLLECTION

    GEOFF Body, who became a household name among many railway enthusiasts as a publisher and author following a railway career that was launched with the LNER in 1945, has died at the age of 91.

    Railways were in Geoff’s blood. His father Jim joined the Great Northern Railway in 1916 at the age of just 13, and one of Geoff’s early memories was, when a six-year-old, watching A4 No. 2509 pass through Peterborough North station on the ‘Silver Jubilee’ press run on September 27, 1935.

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