Birkenhead Docks model 1:1200 scale – Accessory construction plan

Plans for the completion of the Birkenhead Docks model 2019

The model, due for completion in 2019, is just under 3m long and 1m wide. The docks will be displayed as they appeared in 1924, prior to the building of ‘Bidston’ dock in 1930. The display will show all of the buildings at that time and will be populated by ships of the correct era – tugs, barges and lighters.

To give the model an aspect of realism we need to include all of the lock gates, both in the West Float at the entrances of the graving docks (docks from which the water can be removed by pumping) and those at the river entrances to Morpeth and Alfred docks and between Alfred dock and the East Float and Morpeth and Egerton docks.

In addition we need accessories such as cranes (there is a large 60 ton crane on the south bank of the West Float and other smaller cranes in the East Float) and the vast number of rail transport related items such as wagons for transporting livestock, coal, oil and general goods, shunting locomotives and guards vans.