Silver Link Publishing has over the past 28 years built a reputation for quality in production. Our softcover illustrated volumes have always been printed on gloss art paper and benefit from sewn binding to provide strength and longevity. Our hardback books are produced to the same high standards and also benefit from the use of traditional head and tail bands. We are now introducing the first of our Silver Link Silk Editions - which will feature a 'silver silk' bookmark (such silks date back to the reign of Elizabeth 1) and will be produced on a 170gsm gloss art paper. Such quality and tradition we believe will be very much welcomed by todays discerning print book readers and in particular the thousands of avid enthusiasts of The Severn Valley Railway in conjunction with whom we ar able to bring this first of an occasional release of Silver Link Silk Editions. The original Severn Valley Railway was 40 miles long and linked Hartlebury in Worcestershire with the county town of Shrewsbury, via Bewdley and Bridgnorth in the picturesque Severn valley. It was part of the national railway network, and served the local community for 101 years, its trains carrying passengers, goods, produce and coal. With the rapid growth of road tranport in the mid - twentieth century, much of this traffic disappeared, and unsurprisingly the line was closed as a through route by British Railways in 1963. But that was not the end of the story. The enthusiasm of an expanding group of preservationists saw nearly half of the route - 16 miles - bought by the second Severn Valley Railway, in three stages between 1970 and 1984. The route was successively reopened for steam - hauled passenger services south from Bridgnorth to Hampton Loade, then to Bewdley and finally to Kidderminster. This album records some of the results of this success, seen on a northbound journey over the line through the lenses of some of its finest photographers. We hope you enjoy it!

Over the past 26 years Silver Link have for been working closely with many of Britain's Preserved Railways publishing many books featuring lines the length and breadth of the country. We are therefore very pleased to have agreed to prepare the official guide books for The West Somerset Railway and The Severn Valley Railway as part of an exciting new concept in railway book publishing. David Mather has written a delightful easy reading volume recounting the story of the rise of Britain's Standard Gauge Heritage Railway scene from its early beginnings in the 1960s through to the present day. In the first section of the book David tells the story from his own personal perspective drawing on recollections of the lines he visited and the many trips he took over the years in pursuit of steam. He records the use of heritage steam locomotives on the main line and at events. In the second section David illustrates the growth of the movement through a selection of preserved lines 'biographies'. In a book of this size it is of course not possible to include every line in the country in this section, however...In what we believe is a first in railway book publishing this title is being released on a multiple edition and regional basis. The editions will vary with the inclusion of official guide books from a selected railway in each edtion. This is The Severn Valley Railway edition.

Set in Louisiana in the forties and fifties it begins with three men and a boy in a delightful little shack in the marsh on the Intercoastal Canal. The shack is a great private retreat from life, women and the worries of the world; a place to drink beer, play poker and tell lies and fishing stories. They are awaiting the arrival of the fourth regular, a brash character who usually rides down the bank of the canal on a bicycle. He doesn't arrive but a most unusual Cajun trapper appears, barges into their shack, extracts some treasure concealed under a roof beam and departs in his pirogue cutting loose their motorboat, their only means of getting back to civilization. A big storm, writhing snakes, loss of power, and the cabin set afire force them out on the bay at night in a fishing dinghy that was stored under the shack. Among the four: a promising artist on sabbatical from his New York studio, a former lawyer, now a used-car salesman who will become a great 'preacher', a small town newspaper editor who will become governor, the boy of misspent youth, who will mature rapidly and excitedly - plus the character who never got there and the mysterious Cajun and his treasure. Good Cajun food is mentioned along with duck hunts and many beautiful, exciting women of amazing backgrounds As well as 'the Senator' a delightful wealthy old romantic enamored with a beautiful model.

A fictional story of a small grass-roots church and the problems in the world due to different religions

"Testimony of a Dreamer"-Along with a thirst for rhythm and blues music, our young inner-city dreamer, Macmillan Charles McKinney discovers that he also has an unquenchable desire to discover the truth about his culture of people. Yet while on his quest for the truth about African-American history, he also discovers a social injustice that creates in him, an anger of outrageous proportion. Venture down Beale Street in Memphis and experience the blues, find truth through trusting educators, and listen to the elders from the old school as they all offer priceless wisdom. Macmillan's determined to find a way to change the identity of a nation. But for him to receive the promise of a brighter tomorrow, he knew that his outraged anger must be expunged.

Optical methods, stimulated by the advent of inexpensive and reliable lasers, are assuming an increasingly important role in the field of engineering metrology. This book is aimed at industrial development engineers who wish to take advantage of optical methods. Requiring only a basic knowledge of optics, the text provides a compendium of practical information prepared by leaders in the field. All of the contributors have considerable practical experience in the application of optical methods to metrology. The book covers all of the major optical methods in use including traditional optical, laser-based and fibre optics techniques. A wide range of applications, ranging from measurement of distance and displacement in large-scale civil engineering projects to measurements of small manufactured components, are covered.