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Geoffrey Skelsey (born 1943) is a retired academic and widely published author, notably on transport-related subjects such as railway history and architecture, tramways and light rail. He graduated from St Catharine's College, Cambridge in 1965. His initial employment was with the British Railways Board and, from 1967, he worked in the central administration of the University of Cambridge. He retired in 2004. He was awarded the Order of Civil Merit by HM King of Spain (1988) and appointed a Lieutenant in the Royal Victorian Order by HM The Queen (2002).

He is a regular contributor to Backtrack, Tramways and Urban Transit, and Tramway Review magazines. He is the author of four books, Light Rail Review, Nottingham's New Trams: the Net Success Story (2007), Brussels: A Tramway Reborn (2008) and Trams Through The Dunes (2009).