... topic: 520 Old Rail? posted: 11 Aug 2008 02:43 from: GeoffJones A question for our historians, but nothing to do with Templot I recently moved to the village of Pontesbury in Shropshire and walking the dog along the old railway track near Pontesbury station I have noticed the remains of an old sign supported by a steel post shaped as shown in the attached rough sketch. The apex is slightly sloped to one side, suggesting either design or wear from wheels. The base is about 150mm across. Is this a piece of very old rail (possibly narrow gauge) or just some sort of heavy angle iron used for such purposes. It does seem pretty hefty for simply supporting a sign. I haven't had time to find out much about the line yet but I do know that it was a single line branch of the Shrewsbury and Welshpool Joint Railway and the principal traffic was lead from the mines at Snailbeach which was brought down to Pontesbury station on a 2ft 4 1/2in narrow gauge line. Any ideas? Regards Geoff ...

... only if a. it is a large track plan, say more than 50 background templates, some quite long, and b. you zoom out further than the rectangle. If you zoom inside the rectangle you won't see any difference from using the rectangle, it should be faster than before regardless. But only for large track plans. If you have a high-end fast system, the improvement may be only minor. It is definitely making a difference here. cheers, Martin. posted: 12 Feb 2018 23:11 from: Philip Griffiths Hello Martin, I'm getting a weird response when running on Parallels. The right hand side of the screen is missing, and when I select a template it appears then exists in ghost format. regards [img]blob: http://85a.co.uk/bbb20c24-8efa-4434-af7e-7bf5866674b7 [/ img] Attachment: attach_2637_3214_screen_grab_templ ot.jpeg 261 Last edited on 12 Feb 2018 23:12 by Philip Griffiths posted: 12 Feb 2018 23:38 from: Martin Wynne Hi Philip, Is ...

... grand plan for a friend who is looking to have a re-design of his current garden railway which will involve putting more of the railway into a building. This will allow for running more months of the year than current. Templates aren't all finished as I have quite a bit of timber shoving to do! Attachment: attach_1007_1429_Plan_Y __11_03_21_2332_01.box 707 Last edited on 22 Mar 2011 01:00 by Ian Allen posted: 23 Mar 2011 09:51 from: roythebus Looks good, what happens outside? posted: 24 Mar 2011 11:27 from: BeamEnds It's probably as intended, but.... in 'winter mode' you can't get back to the terminus in the middle without setting back- is that meant to be? posted: 24 Mar 2011 19:10 from: Ian Allen At bottom right of the plan are the connecting lines to another "shed", double track to a mainline station, inside double track rising to a high level station for the "electric" services, and three tracks (double main and goods loop ...

... slip rails and vees in place. My question is, where do I go from here? With a simple turnout the order of construction is fairly obvious and I would continue in a way that allows me to gauge each new added rail from those already in place. Maybe I can't see the obvious, but it's not clear to me what the best order of assembly is to ensure that I can always gauge new rails from existing ones. What's your recommended order for building one of these? Nick posted: 6 Mar 2011 11:24 from: Paul Boyd Hi Nick If you have a look at my website at http://www.paul-boyd.me.uk then go to the "Rural Railfreight" page, you'll see a photo sequence of a slip in build. In this instance, I started with one slip rail and one Vee to ensure alignment with a turnout leading in to the slip, then the second Vee, and then work out from that. This method means that I worked across the formation. If I was building a slip in ...

... topic: 1189 Flatbottom Track posted: 4 Aug 2010 11:17 from: Alan McMillan Hi all I've been through the forum and discovered the way to create the foot of flatbottom rail; ie duplicate templates with the rail head dimension altered to the foot width. My question is... is there a way of doing this on all templates at once, say using a duplicate group? My layout plan consists of nearly 1500 templates, a huge number of them partials and the prospect of going through the box list, duplicating and altering them all one by one is not appealling! Regards Alan McMillan posted: 4 Aug 2010 11:37 from: Martin Wynne Hi Alan, I will add this to the modify on rebuild options in the next pug. In the meantime, send me your box file or post it here, and I will convert it for you. What rail width dimension do you want it changed to? It's important to measure your actual model rail, and not rely on prototype info. Bear in mind that only ...

... topic: 1163 Dimensions of Pre-Grouping Points and Crossings posted: 11 Jul 2010 20:34 from: phileakins Due to a small boy having grown into a much larger version and wanting his own room to himself, I have been forced to embark on a large scale tidy up of the railway stuff I have had squirrelled away in there for years. During the process I (re-)discovered an article by Philip Millard, titled as above, in the HMRS Journal of Jan/Mar 1994, Volume 15 No1, ISSN 0963-195X. In diagrams and tables the author sets out data from British Railway Track (1963) relating to straight cut switches, but more importantly has reproduced data from The Platelayers' Handbook of 1901 over five pages covering most common turnout varieties and junctions. The 1963 (and earlier versions) book comes up quite regularly on e-bay, but I imagine the Handbook is as rare as hen's teeth so the article is invaluable! I suppose the magazine's quite rare as well now. PM me if ...

... topic: 2793 extend/shorten to meet background template posted: 26 Nov 2015 11:05 from: Martin Wynne I'm working on a new extend/shorten to meet function, primarily as an aid to using the make transition functions. The intention is that the original templates can be automatically adjusted for length to fit the new transition template. This will avoid the tedious business of zooming in to do that manually. Likewise when adjusting the underlying templates after make diamond-crossing at intersection. The new function will also be useful in other circumstances where the position of a template boundary needs to be moved, for example to enable a turnout to be inserted. Or where a gap or overlap needs to be eliminated, for example before using the roll rails to match function. At present such tasks have to be done manually. It is working quite well (within sensible limits). But I'm uncertain how much misalignment to allow before reporting an error in the original template alignments. In the process I have produced this alert dialog: 2_260617_500000000.png I'm aware ...

... topic: 2803 Recovery and reusing 4mm scale copperclad track posted: 11 Dec 2015 12:43 from: 4railsman I have recovered a lot of 4mm scale code 75 copperclad track and pointwork that I built in the late 1970's~ a lot of it being 4-rail to depict the London Transport scene, particularly the Metropolitan Line and it's A-Stock. This was at a time when no-one modelled LT, so I was alone and decided to build my layout using copperclad built track and to model the conductor rails "above running rail height" to mimic the prototypical situation~ and in the (probably mistaken) hope that I may one day find a way to actually use the conductor rails to power the models direct. That was fine until some years ago, EFE brought out their tube stock which I then wanted to run, and the only way I could achieve that with a small powered motor bogie was by using 12mm dia wheels in order to clear the motor housing between the wheels. After recently buying the LT Musuem's new ...

... and their staff are likely to understand what you want, so it might be worth giving them a call, or sending an email. I have found them very helpful on my print jobs. All the best, Arthur posted: 10 Aug 2016 15:29 from: Martin Wynne Thanks Arthur. Stephen, their web site says: "our machine sizes allow us to print up to 1.5m in width on ink jet roll materials up to 30m in length" which easily covers the sizes you wanted. Martin. posted: 11 Aug 2016 11:28 from: Stephen Freeman Hi, In the end, Richard decided that A3 would be easier to deal with and I was able to do that for him on my Epson Stylus 1290. I know it can do banner printing too but alas not wide enough this time. Last edited on 11 Aug 2016 11:30 by Stephen Freeman Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Baffled beginners> Banner printing ...

... worth considering- Exactoscale. As well as their own website their track parts and others are marketed through The Model Kit Shop. You will find links to all sorts of 7mm scale products on the Gauge O Guild website- look under the Traders tab at the top right of their home page. Regards Bill Campbell posted: 7 Apr 2010 17:59 from: Alan Turner wcampbell23 wrote: There is another manufacturer worth considering- Exactoscale. Regards Bill Campbell Exactoscale: http://www.exactoscale.co.uk/7mmtrack.html posted: 8 Apr 2010 11:31 from: Chris Blaxland Hi Brian, many thanks for your quick reply. I have a couple of other questions if you are able to help out. You say 31mm looks and works better, I presume that that is the scale listed as "O -XF" in the scale directory. And just to confirm, The O gauge ready to run stock will cope with this (I have tried to find the back to back measurments for the new Heljan loco's and can't, The Railway Modeller used to quote ...