North Holderness Light Railway

Coordinates: 53°57′47″N 0°19′48″W / 53.963°N 0.330°W

North Holderness Light Railway (Never constructed)
Legend North Frodingham Brandesburton Leven Long Riston Routh Tickton Yorkshire Coast Line to Arram Beverley Yorkshire Coast Line to Cottingham

The North Holderness Light Railway was a proposed light railway, which was to have been constructed between Beverley and North Frodingham, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The scheme was abandoned in 1903 by the North Eastern Railway (NER) and replaced with a bus service.^[1]

The line would have begun from a junction with the Hull to Scarborough Line, slightly to the north of Beverley railway station, and served villages and agricultural land in the Holderness area. Stations were proposed at Tickton, Routh, Long Riston, Leven, Brandesburton and North Frodingham.

The route can be seen on tiled maps of the North Eastern Railway network^[2] still extant at:

• Beverley railway station
• Hartlepool railway station
• Middlesbrough railway station
• Morpeth railway station
• National Railway Museum (York)
• Pickering railway station (Modern reproduction)
• Saltburn railway station
• Scarborough railway station
• Tynemouth Metro station
• Whitby railway station
• York railway station

Tile map showing the route

References

1. Young, Alan (2015). Lost stations of Yorkshire - the West Riding. Kettering: Silverlink. pp. 7–8. ISBN 978-1-85794-438-9. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
2. "A Bit Of History". North Eastern Tile Company Ltd. Retrieved 21 August 2009.

Further reading

• Limon, Martin (November 2006). Tales From the East Riding. Tempus Publishing. ISBN 0-7524-4038-1.