... refers to the geometrical alignment of the rails, it is not related to the physical length of the wing rail front between the rail joint and the crossing. That stays the same according to the prototype being modelled, regardless of whether the V-crossing geometry is regular, generic or curviform. Although at first it seems counter-intuitive, the presence of an entry straight shortens the closure space between the heel of the switch and the front of the V-crossing. Using the SHIFT+ F11 mouse action, you can adjust the length of the entry straight and watch the turnout getting shorter as the entry straight gets longer. This adjustment is sometimes useful if you need to shorten a turnout a fraction without changing any other settings. As you shorten the turnout, you can also watch Templot adjusting the number of timbers filling the closure space. Templot uses as few timbers as is possible without exceeding the maximum fill spacing which you have set at real> timbering> timbering data... menu item: 2_281421_480000001.png Sometimes if the calculated spacing is close ...

... and you will see what I mean. To achieve this in version 0.91c you need to go Do> Omit rails and joint marks Ctrl+ O and deselect the rail in question. Then store and background to save it, next right click the mouse and click the hide control to make it visible again. Then Ctrl+ O again, this time click every box to invert all the rail settings. Now go Real> Timbering> No timbering and you should have only one rail visible. The visible length can now be adjusted by using either F4 to adjust the overall length or Ctrl+ F3 to adjust the blanking length. It will make sense when you try it. Tony. Attachment: attach_1264_1720_aonach_mark_2_11 _12_09_2330_53.box 413 Last edited on 9 Dec 2011 23:37 by Tony W posted: 10 Dec 2011 09:59 from: Jim Guthrie John Palmer wrote The projected layout features one tandem turnout, the employment of which is fairly critical as I haven't found a satisfactory alternative way to fit in the required facilities. Whilst I am reasonably content with the ...

... the vee nose and the vee rail joint, like this: 2_030656_590000000.png It's not essential for the switches to be exactly symmetrical* about the diamond, but they need to be within a mm or two. To create the slip road there are two methods -- the quick way and the other way. 1. the quick method: Revert one of the switches to a full turnout (F4 overall length). Set a curviform V-crossing and extend the turnout road exit (CTRL+ F12 mouse action). Then adjust the V-crossing angle using F9 mouse action (not F5) until the turnout road aligns with the other switch heel. Shorten the turnout road exit (CTRL+ F12 mouse action) to fit. This creates the slip road and one additional V-crossing at the same time. Like this: 2_030746_300000000.png If you have got the switch positions about right, the slip road will clear the wing rail ends and break through the diamond legs roughly mid-way between the K-crossings and the V-crossings. ...

... spacing over a group of templates? Any suggestions will be gratefully received. AllenOakes posted: 27 May 2013 21:56 from: Martin Wynne Hi Allen, See: http://www.templot.com/martweb/pug_info_2.htm from which: roll rails functions The pop-up menu for a background template has new functions for rolling rails and sleepers. Click the roll rails to match> background template menu items. This makes it much easier to have prototypical rail lengths and sleeper spacings flowing correctly across template boundaries. The current template is adjusted to match the joints and timbering on the selected background template. If you have a string of templates, you can work along them adjusting each in turn to match the previous one, creating a long run of track with correctly spaced rail joints. roll_rails1.png In the screenshot above the plain tracks are currently set for 13 sleepers per 30ft rail length. The background template on the left has a partial rail length of 5 sleepers between the final rail joint and the template boundary (sleepers A14 to A18). The adjoining current ...

... is usually marked on it somewhere. For example the popular 25" OS maps have a scale of 1:2500. And also that you know the resolution in DPI (dots per inch) at which it was scanned. This information is normally available in your scanning software. Common values are 300 DPI or 600 DPI. Armed with these two pieces of information, Templot can scale the map for you, to match your model scale. If you don't know this information, you will need to scale the map manually by adjusting it with the mouse. Decide whether you have this information now. Your model gauge/scale must be set in Templot before you begin. Don't forget this. 2_131128_200000000.png which leads to: 2_131128_200000001.png 1. Click the background shapes button at the bottom. Alternatively, click the main> background shapes menu item or press CTRL+ S. 2_121236_070000000.png A background image is called a picture shape. It is comprised of two components: a container rectangle, having specified overall dimensions and a specified position on the trackpad, and a ...

... or turnout stock rail. 25. Click on the background template underneath, then click Main- Peg Align Tools- align the control template over and snake on to peg- facing to facing. 1876_280544_560000000.png The turnout is not aligned on the track centres and the crossing has disappeared off the end, the lead between switch and crossing has extended but this is not a problem as we are only interested in one or other (or usually both!) stock rails. Use F9, Ctrl+ F3 and (judiciously) F4 to adjust the template so that the track centres align with the background template. (Be careful about the use of F4 to lengthen the turnout rails. Use F9 and Ctl-F3 first of all.) It will take a bit of manouevring to ensure that the track centre marks overlap, but I personally wasn't too worried about absolute accuracy as these additional conductor rails are on the templates only as a guide to where they would be started and terminated. 1876_280549_370000000.png 26. Click real- timbering- no timbering 27. Click do ...

... 45 from: Keith Newton Hello I am modelling a Midland Railway c1900 Double slip and from signal box diagrams I have seen, the stretcher bars are indeed connected together at each end so there are 2 levers in the SB to control the double slip. I have built the DS in 7mm scale and have 2 rods (at each end) connected to the 2 stretcher bars as in the diagram posted. I would like to understand how these two rods are connected back to the SB. I assume that there would be 2 adjusting cranks as in my photo attached and then a connection of the two rods leaving the adjusting cranks?- however I cannot find any drawings or photos to support this assumption. Any reference photos would be much appreciated, Midland or any other company Keith Martin Wynne wrote: I have scanned this drawing in response to a request on RMweb: http://rmweb.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?p =730101#p730101 2_290310_180000000.jpg Great Eastern Railway -- 1:7 Double Slip (You can see the original scan in full ...

... Bent check rails are the default. If you have some templates where you have set real> rails> flared ends machined menu option: a. change the control template to real> rails> flared ends bent if not already. b. group all the templates c. click real> rails> modify group to match menu item. This way you can globally change all templates, or as many as you wish to group, to either setting. If you have changed some individual check rail ends to machined using real> adjust check rails menu item, you have over-ridden the above setting for that check rail end on that template. The only way back is to delete the template to the control, click real> rails> flared ends bent if not already, and then go back to real> adjust check rails menu item and click the reset all button. p.s. Sorry, there is a bug there -- you need to select any one of the rail ends to enable that button. I will fix it. I'm sorry ...

... I therefore need to construct a custom switch. There are tables in the NER Permanent Way Standards that give me the length of switch for each angle of single junction, but I am unsure about whether I need any other information and about how to construct the custom switch. Any help you could offer would be much appreciated. Best wishes for 2008, Bob Ellis P.S. Is there anything else that I need to do to create prototypical NER single junctions other than set the V-crossing angle, construct a custom switch and adjust the sleepering? For instance, do I need to alter the check rails? posted: 10 Jan 2008 17:44 from: Bob Ellis Hi Martin, Perhaps you missed my last message- I can imagine how busy you must be! I have been trying to convert the NER 1:8 interlaced single junction you produced for me last March (Message 8030) to different dimensions so that I can produce a track plan for the NER layout I am about to start building. I can change the V-crossing ...

... topic: 1138 Roll Rails Automatically posted: 3 Jun 2010 11:35 from: philchudley Hi All I find that the Roll Rails function in Templot is useful to adjust rail joints across adjacent templates to maintain consistent sleeper spacing. However I do find that current display of Percentage rolled in, is not quite as informative as it may be. Let's set up a simple example. I have plain track template A with 11 sleepers, and track template B with 13 sleepers. I am using 18 rail sections of 18 sleepers in length. So I using Roll Rails I can adjust template A (roll in 7 sleepers) to maintain 18 sleepers between the templates. Two issues arise, the display being in percentage is one, but maintaining the correct distance between the last sleeper in template A and the first sleeper in template B May I suggest, that the following are considered: 1) The display is changed to number of sleepers rolled in rather than a percentage 2) An option to roll in a specified number of sleepers 3) The ultimate ...