The stunning south Shropshire countryside is the setting for DAN EVASON’S ‘OO’ gauge micro-layout, recalling the longvanished railways which served quarries in the area.
Above: Peckett 'W4' 560 trundles past on its way to collect another rake of open wagons for loading.
LITTLE QUARRY started out because I have two young daughters and the eldest, Maggie, is very keen on helping me in my workshop and playing with Daddy’s trains. This gave me the idea for Little Quarry. I wanted to build something easy to transport, self-contained and which we could play with on the dining room table on a rainy day.
Little Quarry is a fictitious place, set around the early 1960s. If it was real, it would be found in or around the Shropshire/Herefordshire border near Clee Hill Quarry. The track plan is a very basic design with one right-hand code 75 single point and a quarry building from Knightwing Models to disguise the entrance to the fiddle yard.
I decided to depict a line off the main quarry railway itself where repairs could take place in the workshop. There is also an overgrown loading bay for any heavy machinery needing travel by rail on up to the quarry face.
Above: Tea-time outside Te d's workshop, as the team take a well-earned rest …
