... -- the 1:8 limit for fixed K-crossings applies only to straight diamonds): 2_141144_570000000.png If you add from file... this file to your own plan you will see it matches quite well. Over to you to add the upper slip road -- just follow the slip tutorial and ignore the curving. edit: Slip road added. File is now attached to my next post below. p.s. you omitted to upload the .bmp map image file. The .bgs file contains only the picture shape container ... : 1078 Help need with final part of stage 1 posted: 14 Mar 2010 12:00 from: Mark Leigh Hi Folks, As a way to introduce myself to the Planning Portal Mapping facility used by Templot i have produced this Templot of Tonbridge Station/ West Yard. Although very much still a "work in progress" i'm stuck on the last piece of this Jig-saw I've highlighted this in orange on the .box file (the files quite big) Any ideas as to how to construct this piece of P& ...

... be at least another year before we see it! I hope that they hurry up because my new train room is finished (well almost finished) and work is in progress on the fiddle yard, a 7' 6" three track turntable with three additional storage roads leading from one of the movable roads. This is all concealed track using code 148 FB rail. The sceniced part will be in code 124 BH and I will need several curved turnouts. Some will have to be hand laid but I am lazy and if ... turnouts. If it follows the example set by their double slip it will be at least another year before we see it! I hope that they hurry up because my new train room is finished (well almost finished) and work is in progress on the fiddle yard, a 7' 6" three track turntable with three additional storage roads leading from one of the movable roads. This is all concealed track using code 148 FB rail. The sceniced part will be in code 124 BH and I will need several curved turnouts ...

... may be more appropriate. The junction+ goods yard turnout may be a good idea, though would it be challenging enough to test locos? Next would be the engine shed area. Compression of length would be needed, do I model it as historic (single road) or copy the double road engine shed, if so do I copy the turnout as it is with the double trap/catch points or fit in a double slip with a short head shunt? Thoughts and ideas would be very welcome Attachment: attach_2178_2794_Bodmin_general.bo x ... the 30's. I don't think I have got the map up to 4 mm scale but just appx to size, and a bit of compression may be required. I have just used B6 turnouts, where other sizes may be more appropriate. The junction+ goods yard turnout may be a good idea, though would it be challenging enough to test locos? Next would be the engine shed area. Compression of length would be needed, do I model it as historic (single road) or copy the double road engine shed ...

... Sep 2020 21:26 from: Julian Roberts Have I done something stupid? I'm looking at the ends of the sleepers on this turnout. I hope to attach a picture now or soon. The mainline sleepering goes in steps on this turnout, while the turnout road goes smoothly. Normally it's the other way round. I've got this far, sleepers stuck down to template, before noticing it's odd. Have I somehow made a RH turnout on a left hand bend instead of a LH turnout? Or is this how it's ... equalized-incremental timbering style. Ends-in-line is the norm with the square-on timbering style. Templot sets these for you when you change the style. In practice, although plain track sleepers are usually neatly aligned, in turnouts (especially in yards and sidings) the timber ends can sometimes be all over the place. Templot has a randomizing function to create that, real> timbering> timbering data... 2_050721_060000000.png Try setting the end-randomizing to 3 or 4 inches. Then hold down the ...

... - something akin to the goods warehouse at Birmingham Lawley Street I mean? Mike posted: 27 Apr 2020 18:55 from: Phil O Mike, I think most of it would be determined by what sort of locos are likely to be using it, reception roads are likely to be around 7 chains if eight coupled engines are used, 4 or 5 chains for six coupled tanks down to 2 chains for smaller locos. My latest shunting plank has one siding which is 2 chains and restricted to 1361 saddle tanks the rest ... topic: 3640 GWR or LMS goods yards posted: 27 Apr 2020 16:49 from: Mike Kynaston Any ideas during the Big Four period what kind of size pointwork the GWR or LMS would have used in their goods yards- something akin to the goods warehouse at Birmingham Lawley Street I mean? Mike posted: 27 Apr 2020 18:55 from: Phil O Mike, I think most of it would be determined by what sort of locos are likely to be using it, reception roads are likely to be around ...

... you can see how much shorter is the 00-SF version: 00sf_em_slips6.png Both are 1:6, using the 1:24 slip switches (i.e. deflection the same as a 9ft or "A" switch). But the EM version has a slip road radius of 60", whereas for 00-SF it's down to 48". In EM I reduced the K-crossing check rail length to 120", with the flare length reduced to 30". I also reduced the flangeway end gap to only ... isn't room for both switch blades to be open at the same time between the wing rail fronts. All 4 blades at each end must move in unison. That's correct prototype practice when the slip is worked from a signal box. Sometimes with hand levers in a yard the slip switches can be worked independently, but that won't be possible with this design. Some care will be needed to set the open blade positions to clear flanges both sides. The 082d .box file is attached below, for 00-SF gauge (the ...

... of the liveliest we have had. Ten members were present and among matters discussed were........ A most interesting development was then described by Martin Wynne. Neville Fairbairn had asked Martin for help in setting out a turnout from a curved road. From this request Martin had gone on to devise a system for enabling any turnout to be drawn out on 1mm graph paper by even the most inexperienced. Given the radius of the main line, the crossing angle and switch type, Martin can supply the ... run. I would encourage you to keep this near the top of the list preferably with transitions into the curves. This means that there are several things preceding this one but getting something running is usually a key objective for most of us. Up and down some yard lengths is ok but to get something run in is so much better on an oval. Just some thoughts Best wishes Peter posted: 29 Jan 2018 21:07 from: Martin Wynne PRChappell wrote: Double track oval with passing loop and siding( like a ...

... have just received an interesting document from Dave Harris, the co-ordinator of the Midland Railway Study Centre at Derby. The document is dated 17 December 1917 and deals with relaying M.R. track. The first sentence reads: "In future when laying in new road or adjusting the position of the rails and sleepers in an existing road, please arrange to have the rails placed in the chairs to the spacing shown on the attached diagrams." These diagrams show the sleeper spacings for the various rail lengths and weights introduced by ... not agree with the photographic evidence at Hawes because all the sleeper spacings are the same except those either side of the rail joint. The 1876 inspection report on the Settle and Carlisle line describes the (unimproved) S& C permanent way as 80 lbs per lineal yard with chairs weighing 40 lbs each. The average distance between the sleepers is 3 ft except for those next to the rail joint, which are 2 ft 6 ins apart. S.W. Johnson's presidential address to the I.M.E. in 1898 states that both the standard ...

... 08 from: Tony W Hi Panos. I would try to link the two ends with a piece of plain track and get the alignment right first and then insert a turnout into it, after which you can play around with the handedness and curvature of the diverging road by altering the turnout type. Regards Tony. posted: 16 Apr 2017 12:20 from: DerekStuart I agree with Tony. I think you will need to end up with the turnout further down the 'bottom right' of the screen and a far more ... on the prototype track plans studying carefully the specifications of these turnouts. Despite the fact that every solution-suggestion you made is utterly correct in terms of geometry and operation I made the desicion to follow the prototype cause it does reflect the necessity of the time the yard was built. After all it is not a main line but a local sorting yard with speed restrictions. That mean that trains pass trhrough these points with no more than 15mph. The complex crossing track area at the right of the layout it also made Further ...

... 8 part of the tandem to B-8.75 you can have a regular 1:7 curved single slip making a good fit. I think this would be a lot more prototypical than the irregular slip (and you then get a slightly easier radius in the slip road). It means moving the B-7 turnout about 35mm to the left, so I don't know how that would fit -- there is room to the next turnout (just) but you may have a board joint there. If you are tight ... . Attachment: attach_576_877_slattocks_junction _09_06_20_2115_18.box 413 posted: 23 Jun 2009 12:18 from: Andy G And now the slip in context. The slip needs to allow movements from the up main (lower track) to the down main. The tandem is in the goods yard and the turnout with no timbers is part of the double junction. Attachment: attach_577_877_Slattocks_Slip_Area .box 393 posted: 23 Jun 2009 12:19 from: Andy G And now just the slip templates. Thanks for this help Martin. Regards Andy Attachment: attach_578_877_Slattocks_Slip.box 357 ...