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  1. Strathwood
    Released at last during the Doncaster Model Railway Show last weekend was Looking back at Class 47 Locomotives which had been delayed due to my health issues last year and then trying to get it bound which caused further delays. Limited to 1000 copies we have almost 500 pre-ordered which have now all gone off in the post and should be arriving very shortly with those who have already secured their copies.
     
    Looking back at Class 47 Locomotives follows others in this series and is an all new 96 page colour photographic album taking a close look at these successful and long lived Type 4 locomotives from their introduction in 1962 through to the privatisation era. Inside we look at some of the variations through the years and many of the host of liveries and names the class have borne. A wide selection of locations and workings have been selected from a vast library of colour photographs, sure to appeal to the enthusiasts and modeller alike with informative captions.
     
    96 pages full colour, HARDBACK £19.95
     
    visit www.strathwood.co.uk
     
    We will be taking our sales stand to the Model Rail Scotland show and will be launching Looking back at Class 26 & Class 27 Locomotives at the show, so do come and say hello.
     
    Kevin Derrick
    Strathwood
  2. Strathwood
    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
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    Yes the much delayed Western Steam Days Remembered is out and should be in a shop near you right now, alternatively order direct via the website for free postage within the UK. (Sorry overseas but high quality landscape books cost a fortune to send through the post).
     
    I have selected from a massive range of 35mm colour slides from the 1950s and 1960s to ensure the best quality large reproduction of interesting colour photographs within this landscape volume. Bringing the best out of not only Swindon's superb 4-6-0s ( no comments from followers of Black Fives please) but also the lower order of fine locomotives in abundance as well, just what many of you have been wanting for years. There are some truly cracking colour photographs to be enjoyed throughout the 160 pages reproduced in larger landscape format (yes for those of us who have wear glasses these days).
     
    Chapters take in steam on the Cambrian, Swindon Works and shed, Bristol, Devon & Cornwall, Old Oak Common, specials, South and Mid Wales. All in all a fabulous cast of Churchward and Collett`s finest with a supporting cast from Hawksworth and the range of British Railways Standard designs with lots of interlopers to be enjoyed too. This a volume to be treasured by all who enjoy steam. 160 pages full colour approx 160 photographs, HARDBACK
     
    For those who were able to secure a copy of Southern Steam Days Remembered, well done as they are now all sold out whilst we still have copies of the second release in this series London Midland Steam days remembered available.
     
    I have almost completed Southern Steam Days Remembered II, London Midland Steam Days Remembered II, Eastern Steam Days Remembered and last but not least Scottish Steam Days Remembered, all should be available in the next twelve months.
     
    Kevin Derrick
     
    Strathwood
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