The first of renowned artist David Shepherds collections of colour slides - An Artist Among the Ashes A Photographic Record of the Very End of Southern Region Steam - was published in January 2012. To produce the title, Noodle Books was privileged to be able to access the authors extensive collection of slides taken during the 1960s when he was travelling around Britain recording the final years of main-line steam operation and producing the iconic works of art for which he is renowned.The first volume dealt solely with the end of steam on the Southern but David Shepherd also recorded steam elsewhere and, published