Nigel James Langdon Digby is best known for his contributions to British railway history, specialising in the Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway. There are several articles on record in the railway press, including:

Railway Modeller, British Railway Modelling, Backtrack, Midland Railway Journal, Railway Archive.

Books published are:

A Guide to the Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway (Ian Allan 1993), Celebration of Steam: East Anglia (Ian Allan 1995), Aspects of Modelling: Signalling (Ian Allan 2010), Aspects of Modelling: Lineside Buildings (Ian Allan 2012), The Stations and Structures of the Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway Volume One (Lightmoor 2014).

Subjects covered are modelling, architecture, civil engineering, signalling, passenger rolling stock, liveries of the pre-grouping railways, enamel signs on British stations, the railway journeys of Sherlock Holmes.

What is not so well known is that Nigel Digby is also a professional musician. Entirely self-taught, he played guitar and bass semi-professionally from the mid-1970s, turning professional in 2000. He now teaches guitar, bass, ukulele and drums.