Thealby

Layout details

Contact: Hugh Martin at jandhmartin@yahoo.co.uk

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The 4, ¼ circle boards form the end parts of a larger layout called Grayness (25ft x 9ft) but in this instance are used to form a circular layout which has a radius of 50 inches in celebration of the 50^th anniversary of the 3mm Society.

The layout depicts the country station which might have been constructed at Thealby (a small village in North Lincolnshire) had the NLLR passed a little closer to the village. It also has a country section of line just outside the industrial town of Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire.

The transport required is a standard family estate car and requires at least 2 operators.

Power supply required is 1 13amp socket.

The actually space required is 3 metres x 3 metres or 10ft x 10ft.

The operating period is the late 1950’s and early 1960’s up to the early diesel period.

The layout is based in Southampton area.

History

The North Lindsey Light Railway (N.L.L.R.) was a private company set up to construct a line northwards from Scunthorpe to the banks of the Humber. The Great Central was interested in the line so as to stop the L & Y gaining access across the river Trent to North Lincolnshire and the south bank of the Humber.

The line ran from a new Scunthorpe station 1/8^th mile east of the original Frodingham station (on the main M.S.L.R line) through Winterton and Thealby and on to West Halton. This section opened on 3^rd September 1906. The Great Central Railway help build/pay for the line to be extended to Whitton. Thus stopping the L & Y threat.

The line was cut back to Winterton and Thealby by 20^th July 1964.

I have assumed that the line continued in use until the 1970’s and passed a little further west, near to Thealby, and then served the intended dock at Winteringham Haven.

The dock thus allowing for additional freight traffic.

The local Appleby and Frodingham steelworks at Scunthorpe were one of the very few private company’s allowed to run certified loco’s and rolling stock on British Railways national network, but only over the NLLR.