Serene Dock

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It seemed natural to have a module that incorporated a freight yard to transfer goods to ships.

Ships
The dock has a tramp steamer unloading, a ferry loading trains and passengers and a dredger.

Train Ferry - This used the a hull from a child's toy with a train deck and a passenger deck above this. Connecting the ferry to the docks is a ferry bridge that lifts and rises and falls with the tide.

Tramp Steamer - This was scratch built  

Bucket Dredger - This was scratch built from styrene sheet, a length of plastic chain, buckets made from Christmas bells!, some large gear wheels and parts of styrene soap boxes.

The Module
Serene Dock was made using a special module (22.4 inches long by 15.25 inches wide by 3 inches deep). Like Codling Cove the module was stepped with a strip of Insulation Board for the land and yard and a strip for the sea. As I had a surplus strip of Insulation Board 12 inches wide with the box back and front this meant that the land was 12.5 inches wide and the sea 2.75 inches wide. To keep the module to the standard width of 15.25 inches the ship and ferry were removable and extended beyond the module.