"Merry Christmas!"

Merry Christmas to you all. I hope you have a wonderful day!

To those of you on our Facebook group, there's a little Christmas treat, free to download and read. A sample chapter of our next book...

Best wishes,

Simon

"These are the stories we tell..."

Well, that's it ladies and gentlemen. The last copy of Tale of the Unnamed Engine left Sidcup earlier today, bound for Nova Scotia in Canada. We released the paperbacks for the first time in August 2013 and two and a bit years on we find ourselves with only our stock allocated for our stockists left. 

To say that today was a difficult day was an understatement. We did, after all, print and bind 2000* copies with help from Tony Lord of the London College of Communication, Blackheath's Binders, and many more besides.

I think I speak for myself and Dean when I say that we thoroughly enjoyed bringing this volume to print after releasing it as an eBook back in the summer of 2012. 

I'm so very grateful to everyone who bought a copy of the book. For those of you who didn't get a copy, have no fear. Email us on copleyhill@outlook.com, and if we have any left from returns or similar from our stockists, we'll be in touch.

All that is left to say, is that these has been the first story we told...and we're getting closer to the second one, day by day.

Here's some artwork Dean has been working on - the faces haven't actually been illustrated yet, the shading is the colour of the smokebox. Note also that the steam and smoke is yet to be done too, but there's so much rich detail in the picture already. I think you can guess what railway these engines come from!

Until next time.

*Actually, it was 35 boxes of 60 books each, which is 2100 copies. The overspill comes from printing, we had to make sure we had enough for 2000 books to sell! 

"We're back..."

Allen and Sir Ralph return 

for a mini-series this Christmas 2015!

Coming soon!

"BRWS Update #6: Coming soon!"

Good morning everyone,

Blogger's had a bit of a hissy fit adding my blogs recently, so I'm going to take today to take stock of the backlog that's building up and fix some things (including our stockists page which has gone missing - we also have a new stockist which is exciting news!)

There's a huge amount of things to get through on the blog so please bear with me this month. I hope to have the proper update fixed and posted later today if not tomorrow.

Simon

"New stockist for Tale of the Unnamed Engine - the Kent & East Sussex Railway"

We are delighted to announce we have a new stockist for The British Railway Stories. Tenterden Town station on the Kent & East Sussex Railway is now selling copies of Tale of the Unnamed Engine in the shop.

We will be adding their details to our partner page shortly and will be making a full report at a later date.

Tale of the Unnamed Engine is now available at the Bluebell Railway, Kent & East Sussex Railway and Talyllyn Railway in Wales.

"BRWS Update #5: #day252..."

 

The count down begins...

...for a return to a simpler time...

...to old friends...

...old locations...

...in a new format.

The British Railway Stories returns: coming soon to YouTube!

#day252