RMweb Gold Strathwood Posted October 23, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 23, 2013 Released at the end of last month was Seventies Spotting Days Chasing the Westerns. Following the popular Seventies Spotting Days format we start our quest for Westerns in early 1974 and chase them through over 150 superb colour photographs until 1979 when the last one was scrapped at Swindon.The story of their last five years is told chronologically as we visit all of their favourite haunts and a few where they were quite rare too. The specials in the last six months of their active service are not forgotten either.A truly huge selection of fantastic colour views have been edited down to use only the finest to produce this volume to ensure that this will be perhaps your favourite book on the Class 52s ever! This hardback with 96 pages in full colour should certainly be a must have for those who have purchased either of the offerings from Dapol or Heljan for their layouts.As a publisher we have taken the decision to return to limited print runs once again due to the world's economic situation, therefore we suggest you do not waste time in securing your copy as there will be no discounts or reprints on this title. Of the 1000 printed just over 640 had already been sold by the close of the recent Festival of Model Railways at Peterborough. Next up from the printers will be Sixties Diesel & Electric Days Remembered IV which like the rest of the series enjoys a shot of one of the prototypes on the cover, this time it is DP2 which should be out in time for Christmas. Yes I am working on Sixties Diesel & Electric Days Remembered V which will have DELTIC on the cover as it just about made it into the early 1960s before expiring! Does anyone fancya Seventies Diesel & Electric Days Remembered in the larger format? Kevin DerrickStrathwood Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Strathwood Posted October 24, 2013 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted October 24, 2013 Kevin, I purchased all of the "Strathwood" diesel titles & have never been disappointed.I'm all for your proposed 70's title. A looking back at Peaks would be nice too please (just spent 12yrs involved with restoring one). Yes Looking back at Peaks is well in hand and should be out at some point in 2014. Others in this series on my desk include, Class 31, Classes 24 & 25, Class 33, Type 5 Heavy Freight Locomotives (ie HS4000, 47601/901, Classes 56/58/59 & 60), AC Electrics. The jury is out over DMUs, EMUs, Shunters and Type 1s the latter three lack commercial viability I think. Kevin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium EEType4 Posted November 3, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 3, 2013 Yes Looking back at Peaks is well in hand and should be out at some point in 2014. Others in this series on my desk include, Class 31, Classes 24 & 25, Class 33, Type 5 Heavy Freight Locomotives (ie HS4000, 47601/901, Classes 56/58/59 & 60), AC Electrics. The jury is out over DMUs, EMUs, Shunters and Type 1s the latter three lack commercial viability I think. Kevin Shunters and type 1s for me please, although I do appreciate good quality colour images of some of the more obscure early shunters may be somewhat hard to source. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Strathwood Posted November 5, 2013 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted November 5, 2013 Shunters and type 1s for me please, although I do appreciate good quality colour images of some of the more obscure early shunters may be somewhat hard to source. No not really I have lots to hand, many shots have been used in the Sixties Diesel & Electric Days Remembered series, but I still have concerns as whether it would be commercially viable. It remains in my mind though, Sixties Diesel & Electric Days Remembered IV is being printed just now and will be available in time for Christmas, with an abundance of Classes 14, 15, 16, 17 & 20s among other delights. Kevin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted November 5, 2013 Share Posted November 5, 2013 Excellent. Any book with lots of green syp diesels will immediately find its way onto my Christmas list. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Strathwood Posted November 13, 2013 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted November 13, 2013 Excellent. Any book with lots of green syp diesels will immediately find its way onto my Christmas list. Sixties Diesel & Electric Days Remembered IV is away being printed (all in the UK I might add) as I type this, hopefully will be arriving back in the next week or so. Kevin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Strathwood Posted November 15, 2013 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted November 15, 2013 Sixties Diesel & Electric Days Remembered IV is away being printed (all in the UK I might add) as I type this, hopefully will be arriving back in the next week or so. Kevin Correction to the last post, the printers have informed me that delivery will now be on 6 December as the binder who has done the last two books has problems with his machinery again, we are struggling to keep this work going in the UK. This is because of: 1, Costs of labour. 2. Health & Safety issues with old machinery which business proprieters are not keen to replace due to the lack of work. I keep reading of production issues for model manufacturers in China elsewhere in RM Web, and I do not fancy any of that too, thank you very much! Also one other railway publisher who has long since farmed out work to China and Singapore in the past, instead sent their last job to Mumbai. Result all the stock smelt of stale tobacco smoke from all of the sharoots puffed by the Indian printers workforce! This was even picked up in one magazine's review column... Fellow publishers-beware... So I am happy to accept the odd delay of a couple of weeks, rather than send the work overseas. I hope all my customers agree and support this stance. TTFN Kevin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubbles2 Posted December 14, 2013 Share Posted December 14, 2013 Hi Kevin. I have been put off ordering this book due to the cover picture already appearing in one of your other excellent diesel hydralic offerings, of which I have 4. Can you put my mind at rest that this is the only duplicated picture or are ther others? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubbles2 Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 Sorry Kevin, I have done you a disservice, the picture is not in one of your own volumes but is also in Heyday of the Hydraulics by Huge Dady, Ian Allan. So many diesel hydraulic books.......... Please accept my apologies. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Strathwood Posted December 16, 2013 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 16, 2013 Sorry Kevin, I have done you a disservice, the picture is not in one of your own volumes but is also in Heyday of the Hydraulics by Huge Dady, Ian Allan. So many diesel hydraulic books.......... Please accept my apologies. Hopefully you and everyone else will agree that the reproduction within Seventies Spotting Days Chasing the Westerns is far better than the other offering. I had to use this shot as the cover shot as it says it all, look for the number of spotters hanging out of the windows and also from the engineroom windows too! The book has had positive reviews from all quarters. Kevin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
class156 Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 I looking at the class 52s as I have a Lima version. I'm looking at pictures to find a nice loco formation. I'm quite keen to get some of the more unusual type coaches eg the restaurant mini buffett, because I came accross this shot. http://www.totnestrains.com/class-52.html I'm looking to find out if anyone knows what the other coaches might be or look right in such a formation. On my layout I'm only doing 4 carrage trains, as it doesn't scale or look right with any more coaches. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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