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Modelling friends, Stephen Moore and Shaun Horrocks, have been in the hobby since the 1980s. Shaun was an early member of Alsager Club, then moved to Macclesfield Club as a result of a work relocation, while Steve did the reverse!
Both have a long-standing interest in 7mm:1ft scale, although Steve has had a foray into OO9, and Shaun has been heavily involved with the ON30 ‘Purgatory Peak’ layout and its replacement. The next project for Steve is a pair of 7mm:1ft scale small termini, one above the other, connected into a single end-to-end layout by an automated vertical lift and storage system.
On the lookout for a new layout, Ian Rice’s ‘Leintwardine’, which has a small terminus station at one end and a quarry on a higher level at the other, matched the criteria perfectly and looked as if it could be squeezed into 16ft in 7mm:1ft scale. Their interpretation of Iain’s plan is reversed front to back and has the station and quarry working semi-independently, giving movement along the scenic length. A short overhang at the rear was added to accommodate the cassette fiddle yard.
The 16ft length quickly became 18ft in the first design revision, when the quarry area was extended to screen the fiddle yard extension and provide additional scope for quarry features. The second revision resulted from experience at exhibitions. Initially, train cassettes were used in the fiddle yard but were
