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For every editor, publisher or media producer who dreams of striking gold with a book or artist destined to bring home the money, there will always be the one who fails to spot and invest in the potential winner or who backs the ill-fated loser and t

Publisher and Editor MICHAEL BLAKEMORE • E-Mail pendragonpublishing@btinternet.com • Tel 01347 824397 [Mon.-Fri. 9.00am-5.00pm] All Subscription Enquiries 01778 392024 (see inside back cover for details) • Trade Account Manager Ann Williams Design +

On p655 of the December issue there is a picture of a GWR ‘45XX’ at Tavistock. Interestingly, the ex-LMS brake coach behind the engine has a Scottish (SC) number prefix. How such a coach got to the Tavistock branch could be a story in itself. Jim Par

|★★★★★ Excellent|★★★★Very Good|★★★ Good|★★ Fair|★ Poor| by Kevin Robertson. Published by Crecy Publishing Ltd., ISBN 978-191080-9853. 304 pp, £30.00 hardback This monumental work chronicles in remarkable detail the evolution, design, construction and

For every editor, publisher or media producer who dreams of striking gold with a book or artist destined to bring home the money, there will always be the one who fails to spot and invest in the potential winner or who backs the ill-fated loser and t

Publisher and Editor MICHAEL BLAKEMORE • E-Mail pendragonpublishing@btinternet.com • Tel 01347 824397 [Mon.-Fri. 9.00am-5.00pm] All Subscription Enquiries 01778 392024 (see inside back cover for details) • Trade Account Manager Ann Williams Design +

On p655 of the December issue there is a picture of a GWR ‘45XX’ at Tavistock. Interestingly, the ex-LMS brake coach behind the engine has a Scottish (SC) number prefix. How such a coach got to the Tavistock branch could be a story in itself. Jim Par

|★★★★★ Excellent|★★★★Very Good|★★★ Good|★★ Fair|★ Poor| by Kevin Robertson. Published by Crecy Publishing Ltd., ISBN 978-191080-9853. 304 pp, £30.00 hardback This monumental work chronicles in remarkable detail the evolution, design, construction and