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LAYOUT | 009 | LLANFAIR CAEREINION
The reasons people model railways are many and various, a frequent one is trying to reproduce the railway you remember from your youth. Which, in my case, would mainly consist of Westerns on the Berks and Hants line, followed by seeing them being cut up at Swindon during my apprenticeship there.
My personal motivation is trying to recreate a railway scene that has long since gone. This has, however, led to rather a lot of layouts, I'm currently up to eight, mainly Irish but with two Welsh and one Scottish layout just for variety. All of them are exhibition layouts as I enjoy building more than operating. This is also partially so I finish things as, without