... 56 from: Paul Kirkwood Belay the weird F4 behaviour! Tried again and loaded directly from file manager. F4 seems to work now. I won't ask what I did wrong, just be grateful a little work has been avoided. Back to the redraw now! Cheers, Paul posted: 8 Nov 2020 18:06 from: Martin Wynne Paul Kirkwood wrote: Having been sure I'd saved it went to reload and it's not there! Hi Paul, Whether you saved it or not, it will be in the files> recent files list in one of these two menu items from the previous 2 sessions: 2_081305_030000000.png cheers, Martin. posted: 8 Nov 2020 18:44 from: Paul Kirkwood Martin, Having thrown toys out of pram and deleted a lot of 'other' files, tried the suggested and there's still nothing there. I'll just remember that practice makes a bit better! Another possibly odd question (just to prove I don't read instructions often!). When opening a track design file (i.e. clicking on restore previous work at ...

... some ink I still haven't settled on a single approach to the business of templates and tracklaying( sounds like a new topic waiting to be posted). I like building using thin paper and then removing the sections from the templates before placing them in the final position but on small layouts( or bits of bigger ones) where you can gain easy access to the whole area it is nice to paste the templates onto the layout surface and build in situ. There are pros and cons of both approaches of course. I did recently get an HP Designjet A1 printer but it was big( to use and store ), slow and proved to only want to work on random odd days so I sold it for spare parts. Nice idea but unless you can rely on a printer working when you want it to there isn't much point- a newer model would have worked more predictably but they aren't cheap. Rob posted: 1 Dec 2020 21:07 from: Paul Boyd Rob Manchester wrote: Thanks for the link. I see they do other sizes ...

... topic: 2678 Error when attempting to make transitions posted: 2 May 2015 22:04 from: dave turner Whilst trying to create a transition curve between two apparently non-intersecting templates I got an error message suggesting I try another B6 turnout amongst other possibilities. Neither of the templates included a turnout, though one was a transition curve itself.. What have I misunderstood? A recent topic in Prototype Pictures showed some pictures and fuzzy track plans of the south end of Shrewsbury Station prior to the first stage of serious renovation. I've always had a fondness for my home town station and surrounding marshalling yards etc. as my Grandfather, based in Shrewsbury, was a well respected guard on goods trains and often took me to visit his colleagues there in the late 50's/ early 60's and have dim recollections of trains coming to the now defunct platforms 1&2. So just for the exercise, in idle moments I've been trying to use Templot to reproduce the early trackplan in N (UK) scale. posted: 2 May 2015 23: ...

... this menu is convenient, and also avoids the risk of failing to reset the option after use: 2_101512_160000002.png At the same time I have made the timbering data... menu item easier to find (it was previously at the bottom of the menu): 2_101512_160000001.png In the next program update. Martin. posted: 10 Apr 2015 20:53 from: Trevor Walling Hello Martin, That will be great for LNWR 60` panel joints and other pre-grouping companies and make mixing pre and post grouping along with more recent nationalised BR track a lot easier. Regards. Trevor. posted: 10 Apr 2015 21:39 from: Rob Manchester Martin, Great, many thanks for adding this. Rob Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Templot talk> Sleeper widths at rail joints about Templot Club Templot Companion- User Guide- A-Z Index Templot Explained for beginners Please click: important information for new members and first-time visitors. ...

... comment=4225265 This proposed Finetrax range strikes me as very promising. It's not perfect, lower-tech than the Exactoscale kits, but it might enable many more to create Templot track plans with some hope of being able to build them. Let's not put folks off before they have even started. cheers, Martin. posted: 9 Dec 2020 21:31 from: DerekStuart Hello Martin As ever, you make a good point. Incidentally, your graphic showing the tiny difference of curve Vs straight common crossing nicely compliments your recent reply to me on a very closely related question (re producing different crossings). I am not at all trying to knock this new maker- but I really think the way to encourage people into P4 is to get them used to making track in other gauges first and I suspect this is how 99.9% arrive at P4. Ironically, I am in the 0.1% as apart from trying to badly make a turnout in 009/H0e many years back, my first turnout was P4. If I could add, ...

... Very nice the track looks too. It is good to see some work in a scale/gauge not seen too often. Rob posted: 26 Mar 2015 14:28 from: madscientist Nice track work. Personally, I find pre-colouring sleepers somewhat fake and the prototype never had the consistency of colour. I'm build test sections at the moment and I think on balance spraying afterwards and then weathering is best. I always find( certainly on my prototypes in Ireland where BH and wooden sleepers were used up till very recently) that sleepers outside heavily used yards etc where often bleached quite white and the consistent darker colours look to" new" track look. Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Templot talk> Timber Staining about Templot Club Templot Companion- User Guide- A-Z Index Templot Explained for beginners Please click: important information for new members and first-time visitors. indexing link for search engines back to top of page Please ...

... let me know. Did you find anything else interesting in your lofty discoveries, the odd 42xx or 57' Toplight maybe? In the meanwhile I'll endeavour to keep my rails just off the vertical. Kind regards Andrew Andrew, Thank you. I did find a small leak in the roof but nothing in the railway stuff I didn't already know about. Rob posted: 22 Jan 2019 13:17 from: Martin Wynne Hi Rob, Going off-topic, the broken quoting in your posts is caused by a bug in recent Firefox updates. You can prevent it by using Shift+ Return at the end of the first line, instead of just Return. Just for the first line, plain Return is ok after that. cheers, Martin. posted: 22 Jan 2019 13:26 from: Rob Manchester Hi Martin, Thanks for that. Yes I noticed there was an issue. Nothing to do with trains but this is a view from one of my favorite places here. The camera has 3 positions so you have to wait a while ...

... topic: 2648 Tandem Points posted: 12 Mar 2015 06:32 from: D Foster I was recently asked for images of the sole plates in tandem points. The first example is at the MRC at Butterely. The blade tips are so close here that I would tend to call this a three way point rather than a tandem. I think that there is a sole plate under the first set of blades- drilled holes in the steel plate are just visible- but there is no sole plate under the second set of blades. 3017_120119_070000000.jpg The second example is at Haworth on the K&WVR. Again the blade ends are very close. Also, once more, no sole plate for the second set of blades. First look includes ground levers, connections and stretcher bars. 3017_120125_080000000.jpg Second look is close-up/edit of both sets of blade ends- and only one sole plate. 3017_120128_550000000.jpg Apologies for hiccups in posting- this is my first attempt... posted: 12 Mar 2015 06:49 from: D Foster Hmmm ...

... to 40 a day plus spam is about average for me, most ends up being binned, but around a third contain important or useful information, so they all require a quick scan. Hi Phil, If it can't be posted on here, the answer is no thanks. I don't want to know. I wasn't referring to spam. Like you I get dozens of those every day and delete them instantly. These were emails which required a reply, and which I had put in my pending folder over a period of recent weeks. Just to repeat. I don't want emails which require a reply. I don't want telephone calls. I don't want to be sent any letters, drawings, books, tools or bits of track. I don't want any one-to-one contact with Templot users whatsoever. It is part of the Templot terms of use for the software and if it is not respected I shall close Templot down. I know it sounds unfriendly and I don't mean to be but it is the only way I can cope ...

... tick the box for timber centre lines, and click continue. The rail centre lines are based on the settings for rail head width on each template at real> rails> rail section data... menu item. Make sure it corresponds to the actual model rail section which you are using. You can use the modify group to match function if you need to change multiple templates. The default setting is 2.75" which corresponds to the vast majority of UK standard-gauge rail, bullhead and flat-bottom, until recent times. In 4mm/ft scale, code 75 bullhead rail should match this, although rail from SMP Scaleway/Marcway is known to be narrower. regards, Martin. posted: 11 Nov 2015 10:32 from: Charles Orr Hi Martin, Your very comprehensive reply (as usual) has sorted everthing out. Many thanks. I am indeed going to use veropins and copper clad to build some turnouts that I will then chair, as discussed elsewhere. Now to work. Best regards Charles Parts of Templot Club ...