The East Lincolnshire Light Railway never existed; it is a figment of my imagination. However, an act of Parliament was passed to construct a short branch line from Saltfleetby on the Louth to Mablethorpe line up to Saltfleet and North Somercotes in 1877, but the line was never built. As someone who lived in this coastal area of Lincolnshire for many years ,regularly getting stuck behind slow moving traffic on the twisty, winding roads, I felt that a railway line should really have been built here. Over the ensuing 30 years or so, I have created an entire fictional history of the line, one that ties all my locomotive and rolling stock purchases into the roster for the railway. My fictional line was instrumental in the history of the area, helping carry materials for the construction of the Marconi radio station north of Tetney and the RAF Bloodhound missile base at North Cotes, for example. In reality, the station, based very heavily on Wingham Canterbury Road on the East Kent Light Railway, sits on a baseboard only 3’ 6” (1066mm) long. Six pieces of PECO setrack and a left hand point is all it took to build it. I wanted to show that in these days of colossal O gauge layouts that are bigger than my house, modelling in O gauge needn’t break the bank. It is possible to put down a few sections of track to build something simple that you can lose yourself in for a while. I think I succeeded.