Tollesbury Quay, O-gauge, the one with the tidal creek - at Railex 2017

Dog Star

Dog Star

Western Thunderer
This layout appeared at Railex, Aylesbury, in 2017. I am trying and failed to find a video which shows the layout with the tide in... there are a couple with the tide out.

If you have seen this layout then you may recall that the tide came in and the tide went out courtesy of some plastic tube and a bucket on a pole. I am looking for a video which shows the tide in and the bucket on the pole.

Thank you, Graham
 
Alan

Alan

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Having sailed out of Tollesbury on quite a few occasions I too can confirm how good that the backscene is. Thetide feature is also something else. I spent a fair bit of time watching at Stevenage pre-pandemic.
 
Dog Star

Dog Star

Western Thunderer
The tide is in when the bucket is higher than the layout... the tide is out when the bucket is lower than the baseboard.

The water runs between the creek and the bucket through the plastic tube which connects the creek / bucket.

Rgds, Graham
 
Hayfield1

Hayfield1

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Thanks all for showing the pictures of the layout, I was fascinated to see the tide come in and go out on the layout at Railex, I was working on a stand so only could get the odd glimpses. However I was more drawn to watch the tidal feature than actually look at the layout as a whole, even worse realize it was incorporating Tollesbury Marina,

We live quite close and visit it at least once a year and are fascinated by the road that floods when the tide comes in and the sail lofts on stilts

Thank you
 
S

Suddaby

Western Thunderer
Joe's Garage said:
That's an interesting slant to the hobby. I wonder how it works?
I did admire this layout in the MRJ.
Julian
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Hi Julian, I'm the bloke on the fiddle yard in one of Chris's photos. The tide worked by gravity, when the bucket was in the high position, again as per the photo, the tide came in. To get the tide to go out again, you put the bucket on the floor. I forget now what the tides consistency was, a sort of Glycerine based liquid, but we had a lot of fun over the years, usually in the pub making useful (or maybe not!) suggestions to Martin, the layout owner as to what to use, from water to some form of hair shampoo, the list of suggestions went on and got ever more ridiculous as the night wore on. The other interesting thing was that the estuary or inlet did straddle a baseboard joint, which was made watertight with a cork gasket smeared in Vaseline.
On one of Bob's photos, you can see the light blue sky stretched across the layout in an arc, a bit like a one-sided tent. At Railex, the tensioning bar got left at home, hence the infamous "I'm sorry we forgot the sky!" sign.
I had a lot of fun helping Martin with the layout over the years, the tide coming in and going out was always a talking point. Not many layouts have a working High Tide indicator!

All the best,

Kevin
 
Rob R

Rob R

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Osgood said:
Oh wow - what amazing backscene!
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Having compared the with and without sky photos I think all the green bits of the backscene are on the baseboard and the sky is just , well, sky, forming a very effective means of hiding the joint between the two.
I wish I had taken a closer look at the time.......
 
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