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... topic: 1100 Birmingham New Street Station Layout Plans c1938 posted: 8 Apr 2010 15:53 from: Brian Nicholls Hi All, I am trying to obtain the layout plans of Birmingham New Street Station circa 1938 (or would be happy with plans between say 1934 to 1950 since, I believe the layout remained fairly constant throughout that period except for bomb damage and subsequent repairs). I am seriously considering this as a project modelled in P4 fine scale prototypical. I have already contacted Jim Smith-Wright whom you may know from P4newstreet.com. Jim has modelled a very fine example of this station in it's current modern state (electrification and all), and as I said to him, I really admire his attention to detail on the model. Jim stated that he new little of the older station (prior to the 1964 re-construction) but has kindly offered some drawings and information on certain parts of the station that have remained, relatively speaking, as was. However, my main stumbling block is I have no track or building layout ...
... seem a pretty thankless task. A combination of circuit drawings and wiring lists is a good starting point. My preferred wiring method relies on soldered tag strips which can be numbered. A list of connections between tags, the colour of the wires and the function of each wire helps fault tracing. Colour coding is also very helpful as you are doing. Standardisation of repeating circuits is a good idea. Make a record of the wiring through connectors between baseboards pin to tag strip each side. The wiring record for my layout Green Street eventually had to be kept in a lever arch file as there was so much of it, but then the wiring for it did become somewhat complicated by the design spec. Indeed much of the documentation for the wiring was done before the actual layout wiring was commenced and I still ran out of spare solder tags on occasion as new functions were added in the light of experience. Regards Tony. posted: 24 Oct 2017 14:53 from: Andrew Duncan Hello Tony Thanks very much for your thoughts and experience which I ...
... bit chocolate-boxy. I take the grim& grotty too, but there's no real pleasure in taking them, and I never know what to do with them afterwards. Who actually wants to look at something like this, unless intending to model it: falling_sands_800x580.jpg cheers, Martin. posted: 20 Mar 2018 22:01 from: Martin Wynne Talking of chocolate boxes: haye_farm_1200x800.jpg http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5712235 Martin. posted: 21 Mar 2018 14:28 from: Martin Wynne drogheda_1280x700.jpg Old cottages in Ship Street, Drogheda http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5712711 posted: 21 Mar 2018 19:22 from: Martin Wynne rvlr_1280_rp.jpg Rhiw Valley Light Railway http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5712937 posted: 21 Mar 2018 21:33 from: Rob Manchester Hi Martin, Love the cottages in Drogheda. Odd how alternate parts of the roofs have been re-slated as only the far right cottages appear to be occupied. Keep the pictures coming Rob posted: 21 Mar 2018 21:34 from: Trevor Walling Rob ...
... for all non plain track templates (the plain track being catered for through the plain track options menu, then selecting rail lengths and sleeper spacings). I'm sure however, you will have another option available for me in Templot, which I yet need to discover (showing my ignorance again). I agree with your point about the dynamic stresses not being as severer at the throat of the station, where the speed of trains is much slower than that of the faster main running line junctions, in my case for New Street, the throat speed is limited to 10 mph and in the station area it slows to 5 mph for the very curved areas (mainly the Midland side of the station as it was commonly known). Well, many thanks again Martin for your terrific effort regarding my templates timbering, it is most appreciated and has been of great help. All the best, Brian Nicholls. posted: 7 Sep 2011 03:55 from: Martin Wynne Brian Nicholls wrote: I also note, that you have managed to maintain my ...
... handy if you don't know the old rule about numbering starting at the end nearest the town hall with odds on the left and evens on the right. Not sure that would work the way they have built housing estates in the last 50 years and it is quite common to see estates with cul-de-sacs number the houses sequentially down one side and back along the other. The short dead-end roads make them less of a rat run and saves money on speed humps. Station Road, Mill Lane and Cooper Street is probably Vickers Drive, Avro Way and Boulton Close these days... Rob posted: 23 Nov 2018 18:15 from: Phil O Hi Rob You could come unstuck in Plymouth, most streets are numbered consecutively, along one side and then back up the other and even more confusing is some roads turn left or right and a new one commences at the junction. Phil posted: 23 Nov 2018 18:52 from: Rob Manchester Phil O wrote: Hi Rob You could come unstuck in Plymouth, most ...
... topic: 1753 Street track in Templot? posted: 30 Dec 2011 08:45 from: Templot User Does Templot support sleeper-less designs, i.e. street track? I have some Easy Street Track (now renamed Electric Avenue) from the Proto:87 Stores and although Andy provides some example files to print out for this product, designing a complex piece of trackwork would be easier by using Templot I reckon, especially in a different gauge. I have a fairly old version of Templot, purchased ions ago when I was using Win98SE, so I think I'd need an updated version for that, if the street track option is available. I have Wine installed, but I don't know if I can get Templot to work on my Linux machine (I'm aware others have succeeded though). No immediate plans to use it though, so no pressure on that. Kind regards, Vincent W the Netherlands posted: 30 Dec 2011 09:01 from: Alan Turner Templot User wrote: Does Templot support sleeper-less designs, Turn the ...
... topic: 1239 Manchester Windmill Street posted: 9 Sep 2010 21:33 from: richard_t Hello I've attached a copy of what I hope to start building this year. It's based on platforms 1, 2 and 3 of Manchester Central (mirrored) and the general idea is that if the terminus was always smaller, so perhaps it wouldn't have shut, and survived through to the 1980's. I'll have to dispense with the big overall roof, although I'll have platform caponies (similar to those that were at the end of the platforms of the real thing), the station building will be a two storey brick affair, rather than the temporary wooden buildings, and finally a simple signal box rather than the one that spanned the tracks. Services are multiple units to Chester (Northgate) and Liverpool (Lime Street), with a "clubman" like morning and evening service of loco hauled+ stock to Liverpool. I'll probably invent a reason for parcel/newspaper trains at some point as well (probably a feeder into Chester, and then onto ...
... topic: 1227 My First attempt at Templotting for Bham New Street posted: 1 Sep 2010 23:20 from: Brian Nicholls Hi All, There are two box files of significance, which represent my first attempt at track design using Templot. The attempt covers a small area of Birmingham New Street Station and is a formation just to the South West of signal box 4 located on the old Midland Railway side of the station. The formation is made up of exit roads from platforms 5& 6, plus exit roads from the old Fish Siddings( I posted a JPEG photograph of this area a few weeks ago, however, do NOT use the photo as background as it is quite distorted due to whatever reason). After several aborted attempts, mainly due to my lack of knowledge and understanding of Templot, and also trying to overlay templates on the partial plan area in some sort of sequence, I eventually came to the conclusion that a new tack was required. I then decided to overlay simple plain track templates on to the plan, putting ...
... topic: 3608 Clearing traffic from your street posted: 10 Feb 2020 07:41 from: Martin Wynne Too much traffic in the street where you live? Collect a load of old mobile phones, switch them on to Google Maps, put them in a barrow and drag them along the street. Google will detect multiple slow-moving phones, decide there is a traffic jam, and divert all traffic away: Set up a rota with your neighbours. Martin. posted: 10 Feb 2020 09:05 from: Paul Boyd Brilliant! posted: 10 Feb 2020 14:55 from: John Lewis Nice one! But I live in a cul-de-sac- cannot divert traffic! m:-( John posted: 13 Feb 2020 11:09 from: madscientist Id like to divert some cows, no cars around me posted: 2 Mar 2020 11:24 from: DerekStuart Google also uses the same principle to work out how long people spend in a shop, for example, and when its busiest. Apparently those 'phones ...
10. Foundry Street ?
... topic: 2631 Foundry Street? posted: 11 Feb 2015 13:56 from: TPP I was looking here http://www.templot.com/martweb/templot.htm And I saw a reference to a plan called Foundry Street and that.... "The data file for this track plan (with some additions) is included with Templot." But I cant seem to find it- can you tell me where I should be looking please Last edited on 11 Feb 2015 13:56 by TPP posted: 11 Feb 2015 14:12 from: Martin Wynne Hi Rob, Several sample track plans were included with the old paid-for versions of Templot. They all go back 15 years to the early days of Templot -- I intended to update them for Templot2 but I have never quite got round to it. I will find the Foundry Street file, see if it needs any updating, and post it here shortly. regards, Martin. posted: 11 Feb 2015 14:43 from: TPP Thanks for the reply Martin No ...
... topic: 3758 Trying to use NLS posted: 7 Sep 2020 00:50 from: roythebus Good evening, I'm trying to download a map from NLS but can't for the lif of me fathom how to locate the exact map I need form NLS. Whilst it seems wonderful and has the map I want, I can't locate it again! I'm after the West London Line from Kensington High Street to the Cromwell Road/A4 bridge to the south on the 25" to the mile series, post-1945. It seems to stretch over 2 maps what I need, but as I said, I can't fathom it out at all. I have the attention span of a goldfish when it comes to computer things. It's taken me 10 years or more to try to work out Templot and have built a layout using it with help from here, but this one has me baffled. Of course I then need to get that copied into Templot. Any help is appreciated. posted: 7 Sep 2020 01:43 from: Martin Wynne roythebus ...
12. Pelham Street
... topic: 2504 Pelham Street posted: 15 Aug 2014 15:36 from: Raymond I have not worked much with Templot for a very long time but recently a friend asked me to produce a plan for him based upon a might have been. Pelham Street was proposed as an LSWR station leading off what is now the current South Kensington station. All the pointwork has to fit in a very tight space between the ends of the District line platforms and beginning of Pelham Street platforms. There were several proposed plans and this one is based upon one for 1882. It has been very interesting but I am not at all convinced that all of it is workable. There is a baseboard joint in the scissors crossover, see the bgs file. I'd much appreciate comments and suggestions on it. Thanks, Raymond.undefined Attachment: attach_1914_2504_Ian_18.box 364 posted: 15 Aug 2014 15:37 from: Raymond Here is the bgs file Attachment: attach_1915_2504_Ian.bgs 314 Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot ...
... topic: 635 Movable K-crossings at New Street posted: 18 Nov 2008 21:29 from: Martin Wynne A superb close-up from Jim Smith-Wright of movable K-crossings in a double-slip at Birmingham New Street. (on RMweb) posted: 19 Nov 2008 00:31 from: John Lewis The picture does not appear. John posted: 19 Nov 2008 01:32 from: Martin Wynne John Lewis wrote: The picture does not appear. Hi John, You did click the links? http://www.rmweb.co.uk/forum/download/file.php?id=42986 http://www.rmweb.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?p =503094#p503094 I can't hot-link it to appear directly here, because Jim has a copyright note about that. regards, Martin. posted: 19 Nov 2008 03:33 from: John Lewis I did not recognize it as a link! :-( John posted: 25 Nov 2008 22:06 from: Martin Wynne Martin Wynne wrote: A superb close ...
14. glueing track
... , or meths. Les posted: 28 Dec 2011 00:11 from: Tony W Hi Howard. In an earlier reply you asked for other peoples experiences with track laying, so here goes although some of my experiences appear counter to yours. On the first P4 layouts I was involved with, the track was layed the traditional way, ie, a layer of PVA, track positioned and ballasted whilst still wet. One major drawback only became apparent when we started running trains, the noise transmission. When I started Green Street with the Central London Area Group (CLAG), we decided to investigate the causes of this and quickly came to the conclusion that any mechanical connection between the track and the baseboard allowed the sound to be transmitted to the latter. The most successful decoupling we produced was using one of our members pullovers as underlay, hardly practical! At the time Ray Hammond was using a different system of building his track on shellaced card which was then only fixed down to the baseboard along the edges, effectively a floating track system, ...
... topic: 1201 Exeter Queen Street P4 posted: 14 Aug 2010 17:36 from: philchudley Hi All Thought I'd share my latest effort. This is a P4 layout plan constructed directly from a scanned Ordanance Survey Map dated 1905 of Exeter Queen Street (LSWR) Specifically, just the area between the two road bridges (New Road North, and Howell Road) is modelled. The only compromises to the original layout are: 1) the bottom left of the plan (in reality this the bottom two exit tracks cross on an acute diamond, but I needed an easy exit for the traverser/ cassette fiddle yard) 2) the turntable is moved slightly right (to avoid straddling a baseboard joint) 3) the crossover between the up and down main (centre left of the plan) has been moved slightly to the right towards the diamond crossing, also to avoid a baseboard joint 4) The top left exit from the goods sidings is a single slip (in reality it is a really like a three way overlaid on a diamond! ...
16. Kingsbere
... but I decided that I would end up with all track and I wanted to have at least a bit of country. Arthur posted: 5 Jan 2012 13:57 from: Nigel Brown Arthur, a minor point; as far as I know half-turntables are usually referred to as sector-plates. Pretty uncommon, as they don't have the advantage of full turntables in being able to balance things over the pivot point. Traversers are parallel tracks laid on a movable table; this was the sort found at Birmingham Moor Street, Swindon works, and now at Didcot. Cheers Nigel posted: 5 Jan 2012 15:59 from: Stephen Freeman Hi, Just had a look at the box file- if you are worried about the minimum radii remember that given your period it would be unlikely that REA specs would be in use so you could have a bit of an experiment with customising the vees, for instance using curviform throughout appears to give a useful increase at the possible expense of being less prototypical in some cases, I haven't tried out ...
... topic: 1178 Split Tournouts at Birmingham New Street c1938. posted: 25 Jul 2010 16:11 from: Brian Nicholls Hi All, Having gone down numerous false alley's, I finally managed to get a lead on the correct layout plan for Birmingham New Street c1938. My quest finally led to Birmingham Central Library (BCL) archive department, where I discovered, whilst spending a whole day there, an original copy of an L& NWR 1921 plan of the station (there was also a 1929 version of the same plan, but not in such good condition). After some further investigations, I was satisfied, as it was verified that the station layout remained in that state up until during and just shortly after WW2, when subtle changes were made to the layout, culminated in the usual plans c1950, we see in books today. Whilst at BCL I took more than a hundred photographs of these plans and many other documents of interest. After some six weeks, and much negotiation, since my visit to BCL, I have finally ...
... topic: 1375 Maps -- Birmingham New Street -- eastern approaches posted: 19 Feb 2011 21:07 from: Martin Wynne Large-scale detailed maps of the tracks running into Birmingham New Street from the east are available online as part of the HS2 consultation. Some of these files are large. It's best to save them on your system and then open them in Adobe Reader or Foxit Reader. Zoom in to 200% or more to see the detail. http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/assets.dft.gov.uk/hs2-arp-00-dr-rw-00009.pdf http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/assets.dft.gov.uk/hs2-arp-00-dr-rw-00010.pdf http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/assets.dft.gov.uk/hs2-arp-00-dr-rw-00011.pdf http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/assets.dft.gov.uk/hs2-arp-00-dr-rw-00012.pdf http://s3-eu-west- ...
... topic: 1471 Birmingham Moor Street posted: 1 May 2011 15:49 from: Raymond Following on from the topic started elswhere, here is the progress on Moor Street so far. I suspect that the plan is badly distorted as it has proven very difficult to get some of the formation to match it well. Particularly the slips. No doubt the track experts among you will spot a myriad of faults and I will be happy to hear about them. The timber shoving proved very 'interesting'. Best viewed without centre lines. Regards Raymond Attachment: attach_1056_1471_Moor_st_10.box 268 Last edited on 2 May 2011 16:52 by Raymond Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Share and show> Birmingham Moor Street 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 ...
... topic: 3227 Templates for inset harbour or street trackage posted: 24 Feb 2018 19:37 from: Rob Manchester Hi, I get the feeling there may be an easy way to add two lines inside the running rails of a Templot plan to represent a cutting line for making the 'four foot' infill in street or harbour track. I thought I had seen it asked before but have searched the forum() and didn't find anything suitable. I did find posts asking about conductor rails( using platform edges) and mixed gauge turnouts( too complicated for me). Any clues anyone? Rob posted: 24 Feb 2018 19:49 from: Martin Wynne Hi Rob, Try geometry> trackbed edges... Set the width for each side from the centre-line separately: 2_241448_400000000.png If you want a single solid line, choose the ballast+ cess option and set the cess width... very narrow. cheers, Martin. posted: 24 Feb 2018 22:12 from: Rob Manchester Thanks Martin, brilliant, just the ...
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