Clive Foxell
Clive Arthur Peirson Foxell
Early life
Clive Foxell was born in Harrow on 27 February 1930, the only child of Arthur and Lillian Foxell. He was educated at
Career
Towards the end of the Second World War, Foxell joined the electronics company GEC as an apprentice at its research laboratory in
In 1971, Foxell became managing director of
In retirement, he was vice-president of the
Railways
Railways were an interest of Foxell from childhood, when he became aware of the Metropolitan Line while cycling to and from school near Chorleywood Common in Hertfordshire. He got a summer job as a cleaner at Neasden LNER locomotive sheds, where the other workers were mainly Italian prisoners of war.[4][2] In later life, he travelled thousands of miles on the Metropolitan Line and wrote many books about its history and workings, as well as several local history works, most of which were self-published. A keen railway modeller, Foxell built his own replica of Rickmansworth station and an N gauge circuit, which featured in Railway Modeller magazine in July 2013.[1]
Death
Foxell died at Stoke Mandeville Hospital on 30 July 2016. He was survived by his wife Shirley, and daughter Elizabeth.[5]
Selected publications
- Chesham Shuttle: The Story of a Metropolitan Branch Line. Clive Foxell, 1996. ISBN 978-0952918400
- Chesham Branch Album. Clive Foxell, 1998. ISBN 978-0952918417
- Memories of the Met and GC Joint Line. Clive Foxell, 2002. ISBN 978-0952918431
- St. Mary's Church, Chesham: An Illustrated Short History. Clive Foxell, 2002. (With Shirley Foxell) ISBN 978-0952918448
- Rails to Metro-Land. Clive Foxell, 2005. ISBN 978-0952918455
- The Metropolitan Line: London's First Underground Railway. The History Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0752453965
- The Ten Cinemas of Chesham. Clive Foxell, 2010. ISBN 978-0956417800
- The Lowndes' Chesham Estate: The Early Photographs. Clive Foxell, 2011. ISBN 978-0956417824
- Images of 150 Years of the Metropolitan Railway. ISBN 978-0752470092
- Echoes of the 'Met Line. Clive Foxell, 2014. ISBN 978-0956417831
- Shadows of the Metropolitan Railway. Clive Foxell, 2015. ISBN 978-0956417848
References
- ^ a b c d "Clive Foxell", The Times, 21 November 2016, p. 53.
- ^ a b Men Of Vision. Jill Glenn, Optima, 30 April 2010. Retrieved 4 December 2016.
- ^ Clive Foxell. Linked In, 22 November 2016. Archived at archive.is Retrieved 4 December 2016.
- ^ Rails to Metro-land. Archived 22 November 2016 at the Wayback Machine Friends of the National Railway Museum, 25 May 2009. Retrieved 4 December 2016.
- ^ FOXELL CLIVE : Obituary. bmdsonline.co.uk Retrieved 25 November 2016.
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