Wakefield Railway Modellers' Society

In 1898 a small company, the North Sunderland Railway, opened a line to run from Chathill on the main North Eastern line to Seahouses, a small fishing community on the North East coast.

This line was to be used primarily for the transportation of fish, coal, livestock and other commodities and so increase the prosperity of Seahouses and surrounding villages. It was originally proposed that the railway ran up to the harbour, but in reality, the line terminated in Seahouses village itself, and was never extended. The final train ran in October 1951 and the company was wound up in 1952.

The layout is designed to show how the line might have looked, if completed to the harbour, and depicts a scene in the 1920s. All the buildings are copied from the small number of pictures available and are as authentic as possible with the signal box being the one exception. All rolling stock used on the layout is prototypical of this line and period.

The whole layout, including buildings and rolling stock, have been built by Kevin who, hesitates to say, that is now complete as there is always something to add or alter!