Philip John Greer Ransom, or John Ransom, (24 September 1935 – 27 March 2019)^[1] was a non-fiction author, principally covering railway,^[2] canal and local history. He was also Hon. Secretary of the Scottish Committee of the Heritage Railway Association.^[2]

He died on 27 March 2019.^[3]

• Holiday Cruising in Ireland, David & Charles 1971
• Railways Revived, Faber & Faber 1973
• Waterways Restored, Faber & Faber 1974
• Your Book of Canals, Faber & Faber 1977
• The Archaeology of Canals, World's Work 1979
• The Archaeology of Railways, World's Work 1981
• Your Book of Steam Railway Preservation, Faber & Faber 1982
• The Archaeology of the Transport Revolution 1750-1850, World's Work 1984
• Transport in Scotland through the Ages, Richard Drew Publishing 1987
• Scottish Steam Today, Richard Drew Publishing 1989
• The Victorian Railway and How It Evolved, Heinemann 1990
• Loch Earn: A Guide for Visitors, particularly those going afloat, author 1994
• Narrow Gauge Steam - Its origins and worldwide development, Oxford Publishing Co., 1996
• Scotland's Inland Waterways, NMS Publishing, 1999
• The Mont Cenis Fell Railway, Twelveheads Press 1999
• Locomotion: Two Centuries of Train Travel, Sutton Publishing, 2001
• Snow, Flood and Tempest: Railways and Natural Disasters, Ian Allan Publishing 2001
• Loch Lomond and the Trossachs in History and Legend, Birlinn, 2004^[4]
• Iron Road: The Railway in Scotland, Birlinn, 2007, 2013^[5]
• Steamers of Loch Lomond, Stenlake Publishing Ltd 2007 (text researched and written to accompany pictures selected from publisher's collection)
• Old Loch Lomondside, Stenlake Publishing Ltd 2007 (text researched and written to accompany pictures selected from publisher's collection)
• Old Almondbank, Methven and Glenalmond, Stenlake Publishing Ltd 2010 (text researched and written to accompany pictures selected from publisher's collection)
• Old Arrochar and Loch Long, Stenlake Publishing Ltd 2011 (text researched and written to accompany pictures selected from publisher's collection)^[6]
• Bell's Comet - How a Paddle Steamer Changed the Course of History, Amberley Publishing 2012^[7]
• Old Dunkeld and Birnam, Stenlake Publishing Ltd 2012 (text researched and written to accompany pictures selected from publisher's collection)^[8]
• Old Stanley, Stenlake Publishing Ltd 2013 (text researched and written to accompany pictures selected from publisher's collection)^[9]

In addition contributed to the following multi-author works

• Steam into the Seventies, New English Library 1976 (section on North York Moors Railway)
• Encyclopaedia of Railways, Octopus 1977 (section on railway preservation)
• A Guide to the Steam Railways of Great Britain, Pelham Books 1979 (section on Wales)
• Encyclopaedia of the History of Technology, Routledge 1990 (section on railways)
• Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology, Routledge 1996 (79 short biographies of railway engineers)
• Oxford Companion to British Railway History, edited by Jack Simmons & Gordon Biddle, Oxford University Press 1997 (12 articles)
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press 2004 (3 articles on railway engineers)
• Scottish Life and Society: A Compendium of Scottish Ethnology, vol. 8, Transport and Communications John Donald in association with European Ethnological Research Centre 2009 (Three chapters: Canals and Inland Waterways; Coaching; Railways to 1914).