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... accelerating. On level single track, keys were driven towards the nearest rail joint. i.e. the keys change direction in the middle of each rail length. Is that what you mean by "alternating"? I have never seen keys alternating from one sleeper to the next -- that would be a pain for the gang to keep tight, swinging the hammer in opposite directions for each one. cheers, Martin. posted: 30 Jul 2019 16:51 from: Hayfield Rob Early days yet, certainly in the short term the P4 and EM project will not start until funding has been established, the crowd funding price is at a discount, if and when its available to all the cost per meter will be more The 00 gauge track is available. limited amount with rail threaded (the new jig has arrived, awaiting a new rail puller !!). Plenty on a thread it yourself basis and the track base is well stocked. Rob Manchester wrote: Hello John, Interesting. I wish Phil all the best with it. Do ...
... crossing angle etc..) and design the two turnouts in templot. One possible problem is that I don't believe templot will go up to 7 1/4 gauge, but you may be able to get around that when you print the plan by hand drawing the 7inch rails. Regards Nigel posted: 7 Feb 2017 17:10 from: Nigel Brown This may not apply, but the question does arise in the larger scales of whether the track is used for purposes such as passenger-carrying. Item 6 of Templot terms and conditions reads: 6. Templot2 software is a hobby program intended for modelmakers. Output from Templot2 software may not conform to the standards and regulatory requirements for full-size railway track and passenger-carrying miniature railways. Templot2 software is not intended to be used in the design of such track or for any other safety-critical application. Templot2 software must not be used on any computer which is in use for safety-critical or life-support functions. As I said, may not apply, but maybe something ...
203. New 7mm Project
... but mainly it will be nothing bigger than a T9/T3. To suit my interests, it is also intended to be built so that the buildings could be changed to reflect a Eastern region station giving the option to run two era's of stock if required. As you will see there are a few complex pieces of point work, mainly the diamond crossover arrangement which will lead into a double slip, which I am currently struggling to design myself in Templot. Being fairly confident this is the final draft of the plan in terms of the layout plan, I am now currently trying to finalise it by building a proper slip in Templot and sort out the sleeper spacing and orientation. However, if someone would like the challenge who is more confident, and probably a lot quicker and familiar with Templot and would perhaps like to "have a go" at sorting this part out and perhaps some help with the sleeper spacing and orientation around this part of the layout, it would be most appreciated. Alternatively, any ideas, suggestions and pictures to help ...
... the loop points it will continue along the correct route. I think I would treat 3 and 8 Points as a crossover, which ensures that the road is correctly set for any movement into or out of the sidings, regardless of the lie of loop points 6. Should vehicles be standing on 6 points for any reason, it wouldn't be possible to reverse them for a movement in/out of the sidings if 6 and 8 points are linked to form a crossover, although such a movement is otherwise perfectly legitimate. In terms of interlocking, the home signal controlling admission to the loop over 6 points locks 3 and 8 points normal when cleared. Conversely, reversal of 3 and 8 as a pair locks that home signal so as to prevent a conflict between an approaching train and a movement into/out of the sidings. Whichever way you go about it, there's no need for the trap points 2, which, as Tony says, are rendered surplus by points 3. posted: 24 Aug 2019 08:07 from: Michael Henfrey Brilliant ...
... topic: 3038 Bosmellin- 4SF (OO-SF) posted: 20 Jun 2017 13:37 from: RichardS Previously I have posted some half-hearted attempts at track designs- Hellesdon and Oby. The latter is my small adventure into P4 and will progress. Meanwhile however, lurking in the background, has been my long term plan to make a model based on Boscarne Junction. I have always liked rural branch lines and the history and operation of the Bodmin and Wadebridge Railway combining SR and (G )WR services is appealing. When I discovered 4-SF/OO-SF I was immediately taken by the concept. Although Oby will be P4 Bosmellin will not. P4 requires more time and has a higher cost (wheels, chassis, etc etc) than 4mm other scales and I can afford to allocate neither at this time to a layout of this size. Bosmellin is intended to be a portable layout. However, the space I have available 3.47m x 2.54m is only just large enough for the outside dimensions of the track ...
... ; but I cannot find any information as to how this can be loaded onto the sketchpad. The baseboard size is overall 99" x 24" and is in 3 sections, and from left to right comprises a traverser 14.5" wide, and 2 boards 40" wide and 44.5". The scan is for a layout 6'- 6" x 1' 9" and I intend to extend it to fit the available space and I am working in P4 gauge. Can anybody out there tell me in very simple terms how this could be done- I normally work with Apple Mac computers and am not all conversant with PCs. I have a small laptop PC bought for this job but I find it very difficult to adjust to PC working. Any help would be greatly appreciated. A copy of the scan is appended below. Many thanks John L 3062_181112_060000000.jpg posted: 18 Jan 2016 16:47 from: Martin Wynne Hi John, Welcome to Templot Club. You don't need a BMP file (that is from older versions of Templot) ...
... been impressed with its capabilities. Things like turnouts on easements and right hand turnouts that curve left seem to be something that no other software package can do and practices that are not uncommon for prototypes that I (will someday) model. I'm excited about Martin's decision to begin an open source project for Templot. I know a little about software and hope to contribute to that effort. I manufacture and sell knuckle couplers in my spare time as Sergent Engineering and I recently placed my coupler designs in the public domain to ensure long term availability. I wish more companies would do the same rather than just letting their specialty products die. I'm also excited about the 3D printing conversations taking place. I have been 3D printing and investment casting couplers for about 15 years. I have often wished I could design trackwork in something like Templot and then 3D print it. I think technology is finally to the point where that is practical. Pleasure to meet you, Frank posted: 7 Aug 2018 18:21 from: Phil O Hi Frank, Welcome to the ...
... to use this FBR format for most of the new content, with only the more advanced technical stuff on static web pages. But that's not without its problems, the web video formats being in such a mess. FBR videos can't play directly on web sites, except on Linux systems. So at present we are running the few FBR videos made so far from within Templot itself on the watch a video menu list: 2_031329_240000001.png Which is fine as far as it goes, but clearly it is not suitable as a long-term arrangement. As the list grows it will become unmanageable, and none of it is properly indexed or integrated with the Templot Companion. Fortunately EC-Software have recently developed an improved embedding option for web sites, which means the Templot Companion can be delivered with Templot and run directly from within the program instead of in your browser: 2_031329_460000000.png This has several advantages. The FBR videos, and any other tutorial utilities I might write, can be run directly from here without needing to be downloaded. The window can be resized ...
... old Chatzy online chat box for Templot to go with it. So what's the idea? I thought I would try something different. When someone asks for help, I could say watch at 8pm tonight and I will show you. If something isn't clear, I can repeat it or expand on it, or explain it differently. I know I could do this on a one-to-one basis but there is no way I'm going to get into one-to-one support for Templot, as explained in the Terms of Use, otherwise it would take over my life. Being live and unedited it is going to contain lots of stumbles, fumbles, no forget thats, and the rest. But hopefully it could be useful and better than waiting for me to produce a proper tutorial for everything. For now all I need to know is that's it working, and change any settings needed. You can see it by going to: http://camsecure.co.uk/webcam/templot/cam.html If it shows "no stream available" ...
... possibly? posted: 15 Jul 2017 01:15 from: Martin Wynne Hi Richard, Firstly of course it makes no sense for the cess to overlap adjacent templates. I am currently working on a new function to make the start position and length of the cess and trackbed edges adjustable in the the same way as for the platforms. This was suggested by Phil O recently. But thanks for reporting this. You didn't say why you are using black& white, or on what type of printer? The easiest short-term fix is to set output> output drawing options> rail infill style> none menu option. That in itself is an anomaly -- the cess isn't rail so shouldn't be affected by the rail settings. I will fix this in the next program update.* An alternative would be to rearrange the order of the templates in the storage box (the brown up-down buttons) so that the templates with cess are at the top of the list and so get drawn first. The timbering will still get blanked out ...
... few compromises. This is a rough and I will need to tidy it up a bit, but that's later We plan to make a half size card mock up, just to have an idea of what goes where and has it a balanced look. At the Stanmore end we plan to make a representation of the narrow gauge railway used by the contractors building the housing The club has had to move premises and are planning to make a quickie layout based about the 30's LMS period. (I hope they will let the odd LNWR loco on) It will be built to 00-sf using the Exactoscale plastic track parts and fastrack bases. The reasoning behind this is the strength given with these components and detail that can be achieved. As it will not have a permanent home and hopefully will go on the exhibition circuit. We have quite a bit of detail but would like more on both the station buildings and signal box Attachment: attach_2153_2737_Belmont_station_4 .box 237 posted: 11 Oct 2015 14:03 from: Jubilee42 Hi This is a separate but vaguely related ...
... but on the diverging road after 6ft (I say that roughly as I don't have Templot on the work pc to check) there is the toe of the half-visible turnout and thus not enough space on that side. So a conventional catch point on one side and the one built into the turnout for the other road. Yes, there is another signal- although I don't have pictures of it, it is there on the diagram and- oddly- it is drawn as a quadrant flag (I believe that's the term)- a helpful chap on RMW showed me a picture of one leaving a yard and it was a low height and he tells me it was not unusual; I am assuming there's a very good reason not to use a ground dolly. Thanks again Derek posted: 31 Aug 2020 01:24 from: DerekStuart Well I never thought it would happen- but today I found photographs of Whitby on the internet that I hadn't seen before. Including this. http://www.rail-online.co.uk/p640292379/hA0F57125# ...
213. Scaling from maps
... copyright position with using small parts of modern OS maps to illustrate forum postings and such like? Hi Rob, I wish I knew. The OS are very strict about their licensing and copyright on current maps. They tend to be less concerned if you derive something else from it, by pasting some form of markup over the top such as in my example, and it is not for commercial use. "Fair dealing" allows you to use small extracts non-commercially for private research and published review, but the precise terms would be argued on a case by case basis. I should probably delete that image to be on the safe side. OS OpenData maps can be freely used for any purpose, but they tend not to be much help in track planning, see: http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/products/opendata.html OS maps over 50 years old since publication are out of copyright, but if someone such as the NLS scans them, they create their own copyright in the scan itself and what use can ...
214. Code Formatting
... The main points are: it is trivial to access it is automatic the output is reasonable (or at least not UNreasonable) we WILL get used to it, and- perhaps most importantly, it is far easier to say to any newcomers "Use this" than try to describe the scores of as-yet-undocumented conventions in the existing code- and perhaps even MORE most importantly... these discussions no longer waste our time. I suggest that we adopt it, however painful it may feel in the short term. Cheers, graeme PS Clearly that was only an example. I hope it is obvious to all that blue IS better than green. posted: 1 Dec 2019 22:39 from: Martin Wynne Hi Graeme, I'm not convinced that my argument is simply post-justification of a mere personal preference. However, I'm not going to continue this discussion because I suspect it is counter-productive. We need to encourage more folks to join in the coding fun for both TemplotMEC and Templot3, not put them off. ...
... the web site, these are able to launch files directly -- specifically in this case the FBR video tutorials, and also other useful utilities that I may write such as the dpi-awareness swapper. Which means the FBR videos can be directly included in the A-Z Index without needing to be downloaded and run from your browser. At present they are temporarily linked in the program from the watch a video> menu item in no particular order. Which is ok pro-tem, but is not a long-term solution as the number of them grows. I prefer the EXE version for ease of use, but unfortunately it won't run under Wine/ CrossOver. So I have also created the simple viewer version which will run anywhere. I have included the classic Windows CHM format simply for comparison with other Windows programs. It is not a viable solution because it doesn't provide file linking. Even if it did, I wouldn't want to use it because it is truly awful -- originally introduced, full of bugs, nearly 20 years ...
... The crossover/ ladder from the platform line was situation from what I can determine, under the bridge in this photo. The goods shed line went through the right hand arch, so there was little space between the bridge and the goods shed, hence why it may be squeezed. It is a conundrum. I am using Ebbw Vale as a basis for a plan, so it does not need to be perfect or follow it exactly, removing this slip would be an easy solution. regards Attachment: attach_2606_3163_1920-ebbwvale-lnwr-trimmed.png 203 posted: 30 Dec 2017 15:06 from: Martin Wynne Hi Philip, There is a 50" map dated 1960 on old-maps.co.uk. By that date the slip had been removed, but the better-quality larger-scale map makes it possible to get more accurate rail alignments: 2_300950_260000000.png By making the turnout from the goods shed as short as possible, it is just about possible to fit in a workable irregular single slip on the outer side of the curves: 2_300950_270000001.png I have no idea ...
... topic: 3365 Problem interpreting mixed gauge track plan posted: 11 Dec 2018 11:00 from: Andrew Smith Dear all I feel a bit of fraud posting here as I have struggled but failed to come to terms with templot for years. I require help in understanding some prototype track issues but the final plan may well end up being drawn with a bendy stick and fixed curves. The Model- Having used traditional methods to create a 2mm model of the mixed gauge (broad and standard) Vale of Neath Railway station at Neath I now want to capitalise on the 1:500 town plan to recreate Aberdare station at near scale scale size. N.B Luckily the track was cross-sleepered so less of a problem than baulk road and none of the standard gauge track changes sides through any of the turnouts. That takes a bit of pressure off... The problem- The layout is governed by four, 3 way turnouts. Of the 4 three are mixed gauge. The town plan includes all rail lines in both gauges (more on ...
... fishplate where it was bolted to the lead. Victoria Railways and South Australia appear to have had some various versions of that type. NSWGR went from separate heel chocks to the American Railway Engineering Association integrated version somewhere around 1928. I agree with your summation of the layout of the North British switch. You'll see the similarities in the attached drawings. Due to costs post war, following the the Depression, the NSWGR continued to use loose heel switches even as facing points on main lines. To do this they used what was termed a 'Housed' switch where, along with a joggle in the stock rails, the unused inner switch blade on the diverting line was under a manganese cover that also acted as a check rail. (Never seen one of those modelled either). The NSWGR started with Barlow rail. Went to Double Headed rail and then to flat bottomed rail. A small excursion into 90 lb. bullhead in the early 1890's but stayed with the flat bottom rail. So early British methodology was blended with American. By the 1920's the ...
219. O Gauge Layout Plan
... alignment into the second loop. Regards. Bill. posted: 5 Apr 2019 17:11 from: Alan Kettlewell Many thanks for the comments. Well spotted about the big curve being too close, I hadnt noticed it had changed since I did it as it wasn't tight like that. I reckon I must have changed it while tinkering about at the other end of the curves. I'll have a closer look at platform widths and clearances generally and another go at the diamond crossing arrangement at the top left. Some of the terms used I don't understand so I'll do some reading up. Please note, as mentioned in my opening post, to ignore the storage yard area and approaches as I would probably use Peco turnouts and track there. Many thanks again, the observations are very useful. Cheers... Alan posted: 7 Apr 2019 14:47 from: Phil O The barest minimum between the platform edge and any structure is 6ft and at busier locations 12ft is recommended. Phil. posted: 7 Apr 2019 16:18 from: ...
... 13 Dec 2015 17:06 from: Martin Wynne Hi Brian, You didn't say what your timbers are made of? If plywood timbers, ordinary PVA wood glue should be fine. Don't use too much, so that the water content doesn't cockle the paper. Another option would be tubed balsa cement from aero-modelling shops. If plastic timbers, you need a tubed solvent cement adhesive, as used for plastic kits, or Evo-Stik-type contact adhesive. Liquid solvent alone may not provide a strong long-term bond to the paper. If copper-clad timbers, the best bet is probably double-stick tape. There are some very fierce such tapes available, such as carpet tape. Stick it lightly to a sheet of glass or a glazed tile first, so that you can cut it into timber-width strips with a craft knife. This method would also be suitable for plastic timbers. If you find a better solution, let us know. regards, Martin. posted: 13 Dec 2015 17:44 from ...
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