The Channel Islands' only model train shop will be closing its doors for the last time in December.
Model World in Guernsey has been selling model railways, die-cast vehicles and Airfix models for the last 18 years.
But now its owner Malcolm Tostevin has announced his retirement.
Malcolm said: "I got my passion when I was about six, seven years old and I was in Peterborough at the end of the War. We used to go collecting names and numbers and I always remember putting a penny on the line and a big train would come along and squash it to a massive size. A man saw me do it once and he said I was going to derail the train. At six years old I was petrified until the train had come and gone."
The model trains and cars have had a good mileage. The shop spent ten years at Camp du Roi, then moved on to Strawberry Farm and spent its last three years at Oatlands.
Whilst there will no longer be a shop, Malcolm says he will continue to collect the models as his hobby.
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