A big thanks for the kind comments after my heart attack earlier this year and for everyone's patience whilst I undertook assorted works visits before being passed fit for traffic once again on the mainline.

As a result have now just released both Seventies Spotting Days around the North West and Seventies Spotting Days around London & the Home Counties at Warley last weekend, most back orders should be away by the end of today on both titles. The printers expect to deliver Looking back at Class 47 locomotives just before Christmas and both Sixties Spotting Days around London and the Home Counties along with Western Steam Days Remembered early in January, all these were delayed due to my health as Strathwood is a one man band.

Once the backlog is cleared I can get started on regular releases once again.

Others will have noticed a change in address and phone number to smaller, newer and thankfully warmer premises in Inverness (boy can Boat of Garten get cold in winter). This move means a lot less storage space so I have reverted back to doing short print runs of just 1000 copies again to help overcome these storage problems, this also means if you are quick you can pick up on overstocks of selected steam titles being reduced to make way for fresh titles in the pipeline.

Coming soon will be Looking back at Class 26s and Class 27s, Sixties Diesel & Electric Days Remembered IV, Seventies Diesel & Electric Days Remembered and Looking back at Class 31s all of these and future titles will be limited print runs of 1000 copies only as I just do not have the space anymore.

Kevin Derrick