This months news

Irwell Press will be at the British Railways Modelling Exhibition Ally Pally as usual again this year and we will hopefully be launching four new books (see below). The show, over the weekend of 27th and 28th March promises again to be a bumper family affair with may trade stands and layouts. (See here for more details later)

Tony Wright will be on hand to sign as many copies of his new book as possible and for you to ask questions about his modelling techniques and photographic prowess...

More news on the books later in the month.

Regards

George Reeve

New Books and Magazines

THE LONDON FESTIVAL OF RAILWAY MODELLING Meet George Reeve and Chris Hawkins of Irwell Press at Ally Pally on 27th and 28th March. Tony Wright, assistant editor of BRM, will be on hand too to sign copies of his new book - see details right. OVER 40 BRITISH, EUROPEAN AND CONTINENTAL LAYOUTS OVER 100 EXHIBITORS SPECIALIST HALL FOR THOSE HARD SOURCED ITEMS DEMONSTRATIONS FREE EXPERT PRESENTAIONS IN THE BRM THEATRE FREE SHUTTLE BUS FROM STATION FREE PROGRAMME FREE CAR PARKING find out more	The Book of the CORONATION PACIFICS MkII £25.95 COMING SOON - AVAILABLE (IT IS HOPED) AT British Railway Modelling's ALEXANDRA PALACE MODEL RAILWAY SHOW 27-28 MARCH The Book of the Coronation Pacifics Mk II New Improved Upgraded, Amended. Even better value than ever. By Allan Baker The original Book of the Coronation Pacifics was overdue for yet another reprint but when all is said and done, it is a book that is more than a decade old. This updated, expanded and revivified version will delight both those who (unaccountably) managed to miss the original and those whose thirst for these magnificent locomotives can never be fully assuaged. Relative costs/prices mean that the 30-odd pages of introductory notes from the original volume are more or less free! Our solicitors said 'insert "no guarantees"' at this point. find out more	The Book of the LNER PACIFICS - Modelling Options £19.95 COMING SOON - AVAILABLE (IT IS HOPED) AT British Railway Modelling's ALEXANDRA PALACE MODEL RAILWAY SHOW 27-28 MARCH A new bold venture in the celebrated 'Book Of' series: FULL COLOUR THROUGHOUT 120 PAGES CASEBOUND The Book Of The LNER Pacifics: A1, A2, A3, A4 MODELLING OPTIONS By modelling icon, guru, Knight of the Order of the Soldering Iron and general titan - nay, colossus - of the hobby, Warner's and British Railway Modelling's Tony Wright. Gresley, Raven, Thompson and Peppercorn Pacifics of every stripe in every hue, gauge, scale and form - well, most of them. What to do, how to do it; turn your kitchen table into Doncaster or Darlington - the money you save from this 'how to do it cheaply and easily' book will nearly pay your wife's lawyers when she finally gives up and leaves! An aspiration, not a pledge, as the politicians say. find out more

SOUTH EAST BUS MEMORIES IN COLOUR £11.95 By Bob Jackson AVAILABLE MARCH 2010 The author was persuaded to write this book by his friend Paul Roberts, who has produced two books in this series, Yorkshire Bus Memories in Colour and Midland Bus Memories in Colour. It is not intended to be a photographic record of every bus operator in the South East, more a selection of views that the author took during his travels in the early to mid-1970s. All are from colour transparencies, or slides. The photographs are arranged so as to take the reader on a clockwise circular tour of Hampshire, Surrey, Kent and Sussex although the author has deliberately avoided straying into London Transport territory, which is the subject of another title in this series. find out more	LONDON BUS MEMORIES IN COLOUR £11.95 By Garry Yates AVAILABLE MARCH 2010 Having spent his youth photographing steam locomotives Garry Yates switched, in1968, to taking black and white bus photographs on a 'box' Brownie 127 camera of the exposed radiator Birmingham City Transport buses which, at the time, were disappearing fast as new Fleetline buses took over. In 1973 he could finally afford a better camera and from that time onwards took colour slides and over the last 35 years has covered every bus fleet in the British Isles and Ireland including the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. Many of the fleets and buildings have disappeared over the years, and today's four large bus companies have certainly made the hobby less interesting with a standardisation of vehicle types and liveries. In this book Garry has tried to give a flavour of London's buses in the 1970s showing the variation of vehicle types in an era when many famous LT buses like the RT and RF came to an end in favour of one man operated buses like the Fleetline (DMS), Leyland Titan (T), and Metrobus (M). find out more	The Book of the WARSHIPS £27.95 D600s and D800s versions; over 70 locos. Successor to The Book of the Deltics; the full story of the concept and development, rivalries, internal struggles, politics, Germany and Der Englishe; demise, defeat, industrial last throws of the dice, recriminations. Unprecedented detail of every Warship works histories in proper ‘Book Of’ style, diagrams, contemporary reports, umpteen livery variations. find out more

The Book of the T9 4-4-0s £27.95 Usual ‘Book Of’ format, with comprehensive history, photographs, every detail variation and change, works histories. The nation’s favourite 4-4-0, a splendid Victorian design modernised by the Southern and best remembered for a protracted final fling on the ‘Withered Arm’ west of Exeter, out across Dartmoor to the sea at Padstow. Recently issued by Hornby as one of the firm’s superlatively detailed models; the thousands of OO enthusiasts out there who bought one can hardly wait to get started on customising them using this book. Don't forget that in 2009 TVP will be releasing the first of two progammes covering the former Southern routes west of Exeter with a detailed commentary by Mike Arlett. BY SOUTHERN TO THE FAR WEST will retail at £16.95 find out more	THE CHESTER AND DENBIGH RAILWAY £17.95 A secondary line wandering through rolling countryside bordered by brooding hills; obscure to modern minds but a substantial double track railway nonetheless, curving and twisting through the pleasant, rural, Alyn and Wheeler valleys, linking the Welsh county towns of Flintshire and Denbighshire with North West England. The Denbigh line was very good, they said, ‘but too good to last.’ Like so many, it certainly was. find out more	NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME Its Railway and Canal History £18.95 A complex story that begins before the Battle of Trafalgar; the canals, industries, railways, political and commercial struggles and rivalries of this little known but fascinating corner of a little known but fascinating county, Staffordshire. find out more

RAILWAY BYLINES FEBRUARY 15.3 £4.10 find out more	BRILL FEBRUARY 19.5 £3.80 find out more