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    In tribute to Vic Mitchell, rail revivalist and creator of the Middleton Press

    Feb 16, 2021 3 minutes
    By Howard Johnston
    HOWARD JOHNSTON
    HOWARD JOHNSTON

    THE death on January 18 of Middleton Press founder and prolific author Vic Mitchell has robbed railway publishing of one its best-known names, and severed an important link with the Welsh narrow gauge revivals of the early 1950s.

    Vic, who died peacefully at his home in Midhurst, West Sussex, was a popular and sociable figure, and an award-winning inventor, shrewd investor, and sometimes well-intentioned mischief-maker.

    He was 86, and he had been taken ill just before Christmas with a non-Covid-19 related

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