Oxford Publishing Company

The Oxford Publishing Company (OPC) was founded by Colin Judge in August 1969, becoming a limited company in 1975. In addition to publishing many non-fiction books on railway subjects, in 1976 OPC undertook a joint venture with British Railways to provide copies of the latter’s engineering drawings for locomotives, carriages, wagons, architecture and track plans to railway enthusiasts. The company also produced lists of railway postcards and provided railway photographs to the public.

In 1985 OPC was sold to Blandford Press. Blandford was owned by Link House Publishing and that company was acquired by Cassell & Co. in 1987. OPC was then sold to Haynes Publishing just 2 months later and subsequently acquired by Ian Allan, a long-established titan of railway publishing, in 1998. The OPC imprint was sold to Crecy Publishing when Ian Allan moved out of the railway publishing market in 2017.