DUANE WINGETT - TONYS QUARRY

Tony's Quarry is an industrial diorama depicting a small part of a fictitious quarry.
Set roughly between 1958 and 1967, locomotives will generally be British Railways "green and steam".
The diorama is built upon a 60cm long, 23.5cm wide floating shelf purchased in August 2025 from Home Bargains for £4. The track plan is a “tuning fork” design with a “fiddle-stick” head shunt, a single point and two sidings. It is an experiment to see what you can do in a very limited space and is part of the Budget Model Railways - 60cm Floating Shelf Challenge ( see next page for more details on the challenge )
The diorama features a wagon aggregate loader depositing live aggregate loads into open mineral wagons. These are then emptied “off stage” before the wagons return.
The back scene, the side scenes, and the jagged letter box viewing portal are designed to make it appear that the diorama is being transported in a packing crate that has become broken. This “crate” also doubles as the actual carry crate for the layout.
The track is all second hand, with the Peco live frog point purchased off a seller on Facebook Marketplace and the Peco flexi-track retrieved from a skip. Point control is wire-in-tube as is the uncoupler control. The power controller is a cheap Chinese PWM controller in a 3D printed enclosure. The buildings are a combination of laser cut materials and 3D printed parts, all designed, cut and printed, and built by the owner.