Welcome to the website of Driffield and East Yorkshire Railway Society. The society was formed in 1991 to bring together and encourage railway enthusiasts of all ages and interests with monthly meetings featuring videos, photo presentations and talks by members and guest speakers covering a wide range of railway topics. Members' interests are varied, including historical, modelling, steam, modern image and overseas railways and our membership includes some excellent photographers and modellers. Some of their work can be seen on our feature pages and you can click any of the photos on this page for larger images.

We meet at 7:00 for 7:30pm on the second Monday of every month, excluding December and August, at Hotel Forty One, 41 Market Place, Driffield YO25 6AN. Please use the entrance about half way down Cranwell Road on the right. It's about a ten minute walk from the railway station. See map. The nearest parking is Mill Street car park in the town centre YO25 6TN (73 spaces, free after 6pm).

Our AGM was brought forward to january as we had an exciting speaker lined up for the whole of our February meeting, which was devoted to railway modelling. Pete Goss will be well known to many enthusiasts, he is a prolific and skilled modeller and has produced a number of highly detailed layouts over the years as well as books on the subject of scale modelling.

Pete's latest creation, Copper Wort & Co, based on the brewery railways of Burton-upon-Trent, has been on the exhibition circuit recently and was the Railway Modeller Railway of the Month in April 2022. It featured at February's Festival of British Railway Modelling at Doncaster Racecourse

All Pete's models are created after extensive research and planning and characterised by a high level of detail and realism, particularly in the buildings. This is evident in Copper Wort and in another of his creations seen on the exhibition circuit, The World's End, based on Knaresborough with its iconic viaduct. Pete's book Modelling Buildings is an invaluable resource for all serious modellers.

Pete's presentation covered his first three exhibition layouts: Etton, a fictitious station set in the eponymous East Yorkshire village, featuring models of some of the buildings; Rowlands Castle, a fairly faithful reproduction of a Southern Railway station with a wartime theme and The World's End. Peter will be returning in May for a detailed look at Copper Wort and more of his techniques.