... Boyd Hi Nigel That's pretty good for a first attempt! Could you please flesh out the description a bit so we can build a picture of the finished layout in our heads? There are some technical issues though which can be easily fixed. 1- The turnout road on the bottom right turnout has a bit of a dogleg in it! 2- On the LMS main line, there are a number of overlapping templates which I've fixed (see attached) by deleting one template, splitting another to remove the exit track and adjusting the approach length on another. 3- This happens in a few other places, but now you know how to fix it! (eg templates 33/67& 48/49) 4- Your project title is Slattocks Junction! Hope this helps! Attachment: attach_828_1181_slattocks_junction _10_07_27_1838_47.box 350 posted: 27 Jul 2010 19:11 from: nigel bown Paul many thanks for this. the description is based in the 20's to 40's and assumes the Midland and GWR joined up in a small market town to the south of Warwickshire ...

... . Bill posted: 1 Nov 2009 03:28 from: Martin Wynne William Adkins wrote: 1. I would like to make a right hand curved turnout. The outer radius would approximate 32" while the diverging radius would be 30". Is there a way to set each track's radius and then have Templot calculate the appropriate frog ratio, i.e. 1:10, 1:12, etc. for a defined scale and gauge? Hi Bill, What you do is first set the required outer radius. Then adjust the turnout size (V -crossing angle/ frog ratio) using the F5 size mouse action, until the desired inner radius shows in the information panel as the substitution radius: 00_b5_geo.png Note that the actual radius in the rails is likely to be smaller than this. If that's important, watch the minimum radius now box instead. There is more about all this, and a video link, in this topic: topic 397 Is there such a thing as an asymetrical wye turnout? As an example, a right hand ...

... 59 from: Alan McMillan Hi I've built OHLE on a couple of layouts now and am planning more on a third. I've developed the following method for placing the masts and setting out the wiring pattern. I push ordinary dressmakers pins into the track between the rails at all the important places (toe ends of turnouts, ends of sidings etc) and then string white thread between them, placing further pins at the appropriate points on the layout to signify mast positions between those earlier fixed positions. The pins and thread can be adjusted to give the correct amount of contact wire stagger at each mast position and span midpoints. The threads at mast and portal positions can then be used to create drawn templates for the construction of the wiring supports. Alan McMillan posted: 23 Jun 2010 08:10 from: Jamie92208 Thanks for those replies Martin and Alan. I'd forgotten about bonus timbers but will use them. Fortunately my OLE is all portal's so I can use long timbers that show up easily. The mouse lines give me a fairly good idea of where ...

... This topic is about three-throw turnouts. 99% of 3-way turnouts are not three-throw turnouts. They are tandem turnouts. Three-throw turnouts are tricky to build and have very limited prototype applications. If you have arrived at this topic looking for information about 3-way turnouts, please refer instead to tandem turnouts. Click here to search for the relevant topics: tandem turnouts____ Hi Richard Hope this is what you were looking for. Please let me know if it needs any adjustment. Regards Alan McMillan Attachment: attach_598_911_LMS_Tandem_for_R_La mbert.box 591 posted: 26 Jul 2009 18:54 from: Richard Lambert Hi Alan Many thanks indeed. That looks to be exactly what I want. I shall have to print it out and try it in place to confirm. I will report back. Regards Richard posted: 26 Jul 2009 20:58 from: Richard Lambert Hi Alan I've now tried it in place, and It's a huge turnout! It looks far too, well, spread out in the yard. I ...

... edited on 10 Jul 2009 16:53 by Phil O posted: 10 Jul 2009 17:17 from: m davies Phil, Thanks, that all sort of make sense except the areas circled in green, if these are steel how do they compress, those near the start of the planning area certainly appear to be compressed, on the left of the turnout there is a good 3" gap, on the right no gap, as the blades move the gap moves to the other side, therefore the smaller blocks must adjust some how to the changing gap, I'm probably not making myself too clear here. I will dig through the tech doc, it must be in there somewhere as to how these minimise switch rail twisting yet remain elastic under compression. I noticed several of the slide chairs also had small rollers at their toe ends, clearly to aid lateral movement. Kindest Michael posted: 10 Jul 2009 17:46 from: Martin Wynne m davies wrote: if these are steel how do they compress, those near the start of the ...

... changed to curviform V-crossings, then snake them forward a fraction to align with the diamond. As it stands with contraflexure through the generic crossings, you have a very slight reverse curve in the vee splice rails. regards, Martin. posted: 23 Jul 2009 10:43 from: Andy G Hopefully a final update for a good while, but here is the track plan as it will be implemented. Front side is fixed, we've made the decision that this is what we are building, fiddle yard may be adjusted yet. Regards Andy Attachment: attach_597_877_slattocks_junction _09_07_22_2251_11.box 388 Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Share and show> Slattocks Junctions 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 read this important note about copyright: Unless stated otherwise, all the files submitted to ...

... is no alternative unfortunately -- if you want to change the curving radius through a group of templates you must do it individually on each one, and rework the alignments between them. But there are other things you can do with a group of templates. For example you can rotate the whole group around the radial centre of one of them -- which is equivalent to snaking the group along a fixed radius curve. Or shift them all into alignment with other templates. Or link the group to the control template while you adjust it. There is no means to lock a group together, they remain as individual templates. But you can save them as a group in their own file, and recreate them as a group when adding them back to your track plans. There is a bit of (silent) Jing video in this topic: topic 707- message 3980 showing a group of templates (a tandem turnout) being added from a file and aligned into a track plan. regards, Martin. posted: 19 Jun 2009 14:13 ...

... put the notch under it. (You may need to turn off timber infill in the generator to see the intersection.) 3. insert a half-diamond in the template. 4. change the crossing angle to a close guess, say 1:2.5 in this case. 5. crop all exit track (do> exit track> crop all). 6. peg it onto the notch. 7. action> F5 V-crossing angle options> any angle menu option. 8. F5 mouse action to adjust the crossing angle to match the underlying track (press the@ key to get extra-fine mouse response). 9. tools> make diamond-crossing. 10. delete the underlying plain tracks: 2_280609_360000000.png In this case the crossing angle turns out to be 1:2.27 (with straight roads). *important -- in all current versions of Templot the radius in both roads must be the same. And in this case you can hardly have any curving in them at all, because the bottom limit on ...

... Richard, For yards and sidings owned by BR and relaid in FB since about the mid-1950s I think you should assume machined flares, unless you have evidence to the contrary. BRT3 (1964) discusses this on page 108 and suggests even the first FB-109 designs used machined flares. Apart from the difficulty of bending FB rail, the main reason for doing this was to avoid the need for special handed baseplates at each end of a check rail, and that then also allows the angle of flaring to be adjusted according to the line speed. For privately owned sidings and yards, where industrial-pattern trackwork is usually supplied by contractors, bent FB flares are probably more likely. Usually these are in lighter rail section which is easier to bend. This picture from Mick Nicholson of Brayton Junction, showing bent flares: 1571_031811_110000000.jpg shows I believe an earlier LNER FB design (Mick?). The big four companies were conducting many experiments with FB track before nationalisation, and there were several designs. The FB-109 design was standardised ...

... ... Entered my custom data in a free slot (this allows the closer sleeper spacing at the rail joints) Created a single length of plain straight track using this custom sleeper spacing Used Shove Timbers to set the outer timbers to 12" Save to background main| store as library template I then created my layout plan and using the storage box added my library above To use the customized plain track, open the storeage box, navigate to the library template (it's name is in green) and copy to control template Adjust as necessary and repeat for each template of plain track, (or just apply the custom plain track settings from real| plain track options...| rail lengths and sleeper spacings... since Templot remembers the last custom settings used in the last custom settings slot I hope the above is clear, it is actually much easier to do than it is to write about. Just for information, all my track in my plan was built from Library templates (including turnouts) all created from original LSWR data. ...