Nick Pigott

Nicholas Hugh Pigott (born 1951) is the Consultant Editor of The Railway Magazine, Britain's best-selling rail title. He was Editor for 21 years between 1994 and 2015, having previously worked in Fleet Street as a journalist for the Daily Express.

Biography

Pigott was born in 1951 at Barnby Moor, Nottinghamshire.^[1] and educated at Bromsgrove School.

He trained on the Lincolnshire Standard, Nottingham Evening Post, and Birmingham Post ^[2] before joining the Daily Express in 1975 and entered railway journalism after 12 years in Fleet Street. He was Editor of Steam Railway magazine,^[3] a post held for four years, and then launch editor of Traction magazine, before moving to be the editor of The Railway Magazine in August 1994.^[4]

In 2002, he was voted IPC Media's Specialist Writer of the Year and in 2008 was shortlisted in the national Editor of the Year awards held by the British Society of Magazine Editors.^{[citation needed]} On 22 March 2007, The Railway Magazine won the top prize at IPC Media's Editorial Awards ceremony.^[5] Competition for this award was limited to specialist titles within IPC Media selling up to 40,000 copies per month.^[5] One week later, on 29 March 2007, the magazine's marketforce team won the Gold Cup awarded by the Association of Circulation Executives.^[5]

The Railway Magazine and Steam Railway

The Railway Magazine was a long-running monthly railway magazine dating back to July 1897, but in 1988, whilst under the Editorship of John N. Slater (1970–1989), lost its position as "best-selling rail title."^[3] That went to a younger competitor, Steam Railway magazine, founded nine years earlier under the launch Editor David Wilcock.^[3] Wilcock was followed as Editor by Nick Pigott.^[3] By the early 1990s, Steam Railway was outselling The Railway Magazine by upwards of 10,000 copies per month.^[3] Slater's successor Peter Kelly (1989–1994) attempted to reduce the sales gap, and that work was continued under his successor, Nick Pigott; who by then had moved over from Steam Railway.^[3] In 2008, The Railway Magazine regained its position as Britain's best-selling rail title and had continued to increase its circulation ever since. Its current publisher is Mortons Media, which bought the title from IPC Media in August 2010.

Books

• Pigott, Nick (2022). The Rise and Fall of King Coal. Gresley Books.
• —— (2012). The Encyclopaedia of Titled Trains. Mortons Media.
• —— (2010). Keith Pirt Colour Portfolio: Grantham. Book Law Publications.
• —— (2008). Fifty Great British Locomotives. IPC Media.
• —— (1990). Steam Railway Book of the Year. Emap.
• —— (1982). Gresley Locomotive Album. Bradford Barton.

Notes

References

• Johnson, Andrew (4 April 1997). Inside The Railway Magazine. London: UK Press Gazette.
• Pigott, Nick (May 2007). "Editorial: Magazine of the Year: The RM wins top award". The Railway Magazine. Vol. 153, no. 1273. London: IPC Media. ISSN 0033-8923.
• Pigott, Nick (April 2008). "Editorial: We did it! After 20 years, The RM is once again ... The best-selling railway title in Great Britain". The Railway Magazine. Vol. 154, no. 1284. London: IPC Media. ISSN 0033-8923.
• Semmens, Peter (1996). A Century of Railways: through the pages of Railway Magazine and paintings from members of the Guild of Railway Artists. Sparkford: Oxford Publishing Company. ISBN 0-86093-535-3.
• Semmens, Peter; Pigott, Nick (July 1997). Pigott, Nick (ed.). "100 Not Out! The Story of The Railway Magazine". The Railway Magazine. Vol. 143, no. 1155. London: IPC Media. ISSN 0033-8923.

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