7mm finescale, O gauge

John Buck & Dave Rees, Keighley Model Railway Club

On the 31^st. July, 1902 the NER had acquired the necessary Light Railway Orders for the North Holderness Light Railway running from Beverley to North Frodingham in East Yorkshire. Contemporary ceramic tile maps, such as at York, show the projected route of the railway. However, in 1903 the NER decided to run a bus service instead.

The layout shows a possible branch from North Frodingham to Foston-on-the- Wolds where there was a brewery and a large water turbine driven flour mill. Apart from the railway buildings and the garage, the location and the buildings still exist which has helped us to produce an accurate model. However the Old Mill had to be reconstructed using a drawing from an invoice heading, a dimensioned sketch of the floor plan drawn for an insurance valuation sometime in the nineteenth century, and a photograph from 1910 showing the ruins after a catastrophic fire some ten years earlier. Other buildings have been added to the mill complex as a result of improvements over the years, assuming the fire didn't happen and the railway arrived!

The track was hand built in situ, and the signalling was suggested by an ex- British Rail Signalling Engineer.