John Snell
John B. Snell (1932- ) is a contributor of material to publications covering the FR.
Born in Fiji, John Snell was in at the start of railway preservation, working as fireman during the Talyllyn Railway's first preserved season in 1951 between leaving Bryanston School and going up to Oxford. He worked for London Transport and British Railways, and was managing director of the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway from 1972 to 1999. He has written widely on steam and preserved railways and filmed and photographed railways extensively. (See: L.T.C. Rolt, Railway Adventure (1953); John Snell, "Pulling the railway round" in Laura Jacques (ed.), Romney Remembered (2002); and J.B. Snell, Mixed Gauges (2007).)
Part of his photographic record of the FR in its dereliction period of the 1950s appears in the Heritage Group Album (1994). He was one of the group that stored 99.3462 on the line.
