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After many years of not having a layout of my own but still attending shows and buying magazines I felt I wanted to get back into the hobby. The quality of the locos and coaches had come on in leaps and bounds since my modelling days in the 1980’s, so I decided that I would see if I could get a small, quality layout that would be expandable but be usable from day one. I didn’t want to initially have to build a layout from scratch, that would come later.
So I kept an eye on eBay for small layouts and initially was disappointed at the lack of any of quality - there where plenty of 6x4 tail chasers but that was not what I was after. However in May 2005 I came across Fairhaven being sold and after a successful bid and a trip to Portsmouth to pick it up, it was mine.
It has been a purchase I have not regretted one bit and it has and still continues to give me an enormous amount of pleasure.
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