Baby Deltic Posted November 20, 2010 Share Posted November 20, 2010 Just a heads up about a nice colour tome featuring lots of pictures of diesel and electric loco's in the 1960's. It has chapters as follows: Old Oak Memories Under The Wires Southern Capers Scottish Habits Changes At The Cross (KX) Shunting Types Crewe Mixtures Questions To Be Answered Blue Is The Colour The End Is Nigh Western Rules Photographic Archive ISBN 978-1-905276-43-1 A very nice book, good photo's including many I've not seen before - 10001 being cut up for example. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted November 20, 2010 Share Posted November 20, 2010 Looks interesting. I'm looking forward to something similar about Stratford and the old GER mainline - heard of one? Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allegheny1600 Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 10001 being cut up for example. Such a criminal act of vandalism! Otherwise, sounds an interesting read, thanks! John E. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Trainshed Terry Posted November 21, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 21, 2010 I have a copy of aforementioned book there are indeed some very interesting photographs in the book, but I have a small problem with my copy of the book, some of the pages have started to fall out. :blink: As it was purchased a Warley not sure weather to contact the publisher or the people who sold me the book as it cost £29.95 I do not expect the pages to fall out. Rant Over, bot other wise a very good book to have. :D Terry . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mod2 Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 I have a copy of aforementioned book there are indeed some very interesting photographs in the book, but I have a small problem with my copy of the book, some of the pages have started to fall out. :blink: As it was purchased a Warley not sure weather to contact the publisher or the people who sold me the book as it cost £29.95 I do not expect the pages to fall out. Terry, our standard advice repeated many time is that your legal contract is with the retailer. However awkward that may be, it is the basis of consumer law. In this case a phone call or letter to the publisher might be worth trying (although you could just as easily contact the retailer) - tell us how you get on. One thing though, don't send an e-mail, only to tell us they haven't replied Cheers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Trainshed Terry Posted November 21, 2010 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 21, 2010 Terry, our standard advice repeated many time is that your legal contract is with the retailer. However awkward that may be, it is the basis of consumer law. In this case a phone call or letter to the publisher might be worth trying (although you could just as easily contact the retailer) - tell us how you get on. One thing though, don't send an e-mail, only to tell us they haven't replied Cheers. I would not dream of it. Terry Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galtee More Posted November 25, 2010 Share Posted November 25, 2010 My mate was at Warley and purchased a copy of this book. He brought it down to the pub this evening (early doors). There are, indeed, some spanking pictures and their reproduction is far better than Strathwood's earlier 'muddy-grey' offerings. Unfortunately, in general, and in my opinion, the captions tend to lean towards supposition and waffle rather than being factual and informative. As we were looking through the book, pages started to come adrift. Fairly soon, just about everyone in the pub had their own page ! Only some of the pages are numbered, so it was a bit difficult re-assembling the pages in the right order. Apparently, so I'm told, it's not an occasional fault, but a problem with the stitching being too close to the spine and an issue with the glued (or not !) wrap-around reinforcing paper/cloth on the spine, which means they're probably all like this. You could, of course, accept the books as being perforated to make framing easier ! Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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