... great addition to Templot. I noticed you had a check in place if the turnout was a very short so defining what is 'sensible' at the other end of the scale would be good as you suggest. I am in agreement with your reply concerning the exit road turnout length 'issue' raised by John, it would be good if that could be reset with the other derived settings. You may not believe this but I don't think I have ever used F5. I use the menu settings for crossing angle and switch type ... available, unless you were prepared to draw up your own bespoke templates. I think that there were only a few prepared to do that, I certainly can't recall any layouts with bespoke trackwork prior to Templot. I did a few items of bespoke trackwork in fiddle yards by trial and error, I can't claim that said items had any prototypical fidelity. I can't thank Martin enough for what he has provided us with, if he does no more he has provided us with a magnificent tool. Phil posted: 18 Jan 2018 ...

... my lifetime (! ), with some of the complex pointwork beloved of the old GER, including several slips. Designing a double slip on a reverse curve was fun....I'm convinced on close examination it's got an almost imperceptible kink in one of the slip roads, but then so has platform 8 at New Street so what the hell.... The one that has stumped me is an apparently straightforward diamond crossing. I can see how the half-diamonds derived from turnouts are good for crossovers/ ladders and ... associated slips, but it strikes me that diamonds also arise naturally as the intersection of two tracks with no mathematical relationship, and the turnout derivation didn't seem to work for me. This was the case with the one I wanted- two intersecting sidings in the yard (so no elaborate transitions- in fact one road is curved and the other straight). To get the K-crossings more or less superimposed on the two lines wasn't too difficult, but the V-crossings have defeated me. Perhaps this is because of ...

... ? I recall 'Up' being to London, so i think the WCML was Down/Up Slow, Down/Up Fast around the Stafford area, which is what I am modelling. Does the 11'2" measure apply through platforms as well? I appreciate adjacent roads will be further apart because of the platform width. Cheers Richie posted: 5 Oct 2017 17:01 from: Phil O I have just had a look at Google Maps and got a satellite view screen shot of a section of WCML, just South of ... ) on the scenic section to replicate a small part of the electrified WCML in the 1990s. While emailing Colin he mentioned that a things such as interlaced sleepers are a big no-no for concrete sleeped track, which brings me to my question. Hidden fiddle yard track will be copperclad so it doesn't really matter what standard i use for that I guess! How can I get Templot to model the layout and produce the templates based around Code 83 flat bottomed rail on concrete sleepers? What do I need to changed, ...

... siding like at Saltley which trains are reversed into via the loop. Their are also Walsall Stadium sidings which are accessed by reversing the train around in the loop (half relief towards fiddle yard)& then running into the sidings via a loop which goes under a road bridge to Walsall sidings fiddle yard. The layout has 3 fiddle yards which are able to hold a 4 car voyager or loco& wagons. The design of the layout is so it is fairly compact but prototypical& fun to operate within a fairly compact space ... them pointing in the right direction. So on the layout their is a scrap siding like at Saltley which trains are reversed into via the loop. Their are also Walsall Stadium sidings which are accessed by reversing the train around in the loop (half relief towards fiddle yard)& then running into the sidings via a loop which goes under a road bridge to Walsall sidings fiddle yard. The layout has 3 fiddle yards which are able to hold a 4 car voyager or loco& wagons. The design of the layout is so ...

... other exit going into the red. Built another point and that worked out fine other than main line radius looks a bit tight. In reality I think my crossover will be on a starting radius of 400' (63") which would keep the other exit road shallower! On the basis that curving the point does not extend the length too much (re SMP points) would I be better advised to go for a 9 of 10 crossiong angle? Any advice welcomed please John posted: 6 Apr 2008 16:45 ... purely Templot's best guess at a sensible warning limit for each gauge. You can change it to whatever is appropriate for your actual circumstances by clicking the change... button below it. This setting is specific to each template. Obviously when working in a goods yard you would want to allow a smaller radius than on a fast running line. For private industrial sidings you might set an even smaller limit. But in any event it is only a warning, having the warning showing red doesn't affect anything else you do in ...

... I did, didn't I?!?! [footnote] A quick and dirty single slip:- Start with a straight turnout. Tools> Make diamond crossing Ctrl-V to copy to background Template> Convert half-diamond to turnout Tools> Make slip road F6 (Curving) curve slip road so it meets the exit track. Ctrl-V to paste to background Not elegant, but good enough to build from (even if it does only have one switch!) Paul Boyd http://www.paul- ... timbered single junctions (by the way thank you for pointing out that the NER described them as single junctions rather than sets of points or turnouts). I have over three hundred photos of Leyburn station dated from 1877 to the 1980s when the track in the goods yard was lifted. It is not always easy on to see on the photos whether the single junctions were sleepered or timbered, but the photos that are clear all show sleepered single junctions. There does not appear to have been a timbered single junction anywhere at Leyburn ...

... posted: 16 Nov 2008 02:16 from: davelong Hi Paul Thanks for the comments. I'm struggling to remember Tetley mills, I know it was very atmospheric. I'm hoping for having the viewer bend down slightly to view the canal below the railway bridges and road bridge. I hoping to have a fairly ornate brick bridge for the road, and making use of plastruct girder sections for the railway bridges, but I want to be able to look under the bridges and have your eyes follow the towpath along the side of ... of the B6s which are down at 31.7" but I'm happy to live with that after all its a micro layout. Only the odd parcel van or CCT will have bogies but should be fine. There is plenty of scope for shunting with the use of fiddle yards both sides. With only the track at the top right not going off stage. The canal will flow front to back under the tracks with several holes in the upper level for light to shine down to the canal level. Where the canal meets the backscene ...

... also be rather a challenge to model. A note added by a viewer: "This photograph shows Castle Junction at the east end of Newcastle Central before the 1904 Tynemouth electrification, and prior to the installation of the manganese steel switch and crossing work. Note the road from platform 1 to the High Level- this connection was removed in 1904 as it could have caused problems for electric sets starting from the platforms due to insufficient lengths of conductor rail being available." Regards, Rodney -- -- -- -- ... the big 'put off' was the thought of having to rechassis a number of Pacifics! So I came back to handbuilt 2mm track with Code 40 rail, which I think will look just a good- it also means that Peco can be used in the fiddle yards for quickness! I'll do have a look at the diamond-crossings thread and I am sure I will join those in eagerly awaiting your next instalment! Richie posted: 20 Apr 2019 23:21 from: Richie Kynaston Chaps, Just to confirm, I've ...

... and the main line. In real life it would have been possible to interlock the point to the works siding so that this could not be reversed when the signals to enter or leave the station were pulled off, but you still need to protect the straight on road from the loop by a catch point, roughly opposite the beginning of the X crossing. Is there a tutorial showing how to add a single bladed catch point within a turnout? (In effect I need to make the point to the works siding 3- ... a sand drag or a short "blind siding". What was used in any given situation varied according to company practice and over time. Single bladed traps seem to have been favoured in cramped situations and were sometimes incorporated into the last turnout before leaving a goods yard if space was tight. There was so much variation that it would be difficult to say you were wrong which ever variant you choose. Tony. Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. ...

... a 4 chain-ish constant radius curve, I thought I'd see how to deal with a crossover. I can add the check rails I want by extending check and wing rails on the turnout side of a turnout, and adding continuous check rails on the main road using Martin's method, using a bit of imagination to 'gap' the flangeway at the wing rails. What I can't see is how to 'check' the closure rail on the turnout side. I've attached the box file just in case! Thanks. Phil PS ... quite often found within station limits, but it would be very unusual to have such sharp curves on running lines in open country. An A4 turnout has a radius of 130ft, which is less than 2 chains. That would be regarded as acceptable in a goods yard, but only for short 4-coupled shunting locos. Industrial turnouts can go down to 1:2 angle, with a radius of only 40ft, i.e. well below 1 chain radius. But only the smallest shunting locos (or horses?) would ...