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... - they look much more like C8 to me. Any views? Hi Howard, 16 "T" timbers in the picture between the stock rail joint and the wing rail joint. At the default spacing Templot makes that a C9.5 But of course it depends on the fill timber spacing setting. On balance I think these turnouts could be in the range C9 to C10, but there are too many timbers to be C8. Mick says C10, and 10 is the "natural" angle for a C switch, so I'm inclined to take Mick's word for it. Unless anyone can spot evidence to the contrary? It wouldn't be longer than 10, because that would normally require the check rails to span 6 timbers and the wing rails to reach to the C timber. regards, Martin. posted: 4 Jan 2011 17:12 from: JFS Hi Martin, I used the counting timbers approach also but thought that 16 corresponded to a C8- happy to concede the "point". Mick mentioned that the chap who captioned to original has a ...
... road radius- 80.5". The switches are REA B switches. I've used the wonderful, brilliant new tagging feature, so you can use the Group => group by prefix tag => outside slip menu option to lump all the templates together into a single group. I've made the check and wing rail ends match the paper template although it looks horrible! When you come to build the formation, watch the K-crossing check rail clearance against the slip road- there isn't any on the template! I would be inclined to shorten that check rail by a timber spacing at each end. If you don't already know this, you'll need to learn how to handle groups of templates. You can always ask here! Hope this helps Attachment: attach_1701_2369_outside_slip_em_2 014_01_01_1458_43.box 357 posted: 1 Jan 2014 15:57 from: Michael Woolford Many thanks for that Paul, I hope it wasn't too much trouble. What was the benefit of increasing the centre crossings to 1 in 7.5? I realise that it gives a shallower radius to the slip road but looking ...
... away with things. It should be possible with some self-discipline to cut right back to bare questions which need answers, and to keep the answers concise. A lot of recent Templot messages I've just deleted without reading them; there's only so much anyone can take. Cheers Nigel posted: 20 Dec 2011 18:21 from: Paul Boyd Hi Martin My tuppence ha'penny's worth The existing tutorials etc are not too far out of touch for 0.91c, although I appreciate that there are some significant differences, so I would be inclined to leave that as the release version until Templot 2 is better documented. Can you also make it a condition of purchase that users understand that the current online documentation is a little out of date, but they must come here to ask for help? And you don't need to reply instantly to every request for help! There's a déja vu feeling here... This may be controversial, but I had a feeling of foreboding when you made Templot 2 a free-for-all, or even made it available ...
... topic: 1630 "Home Movie" Archive launched- Not Strictly Templot Related posted: 14 Sep 2011 14:37 from: BeamEnds There's a new archive of "home movies" been launched today at: http://www.londonsscreenarchives.org.uk Here's the first one I found- a colliery incline working http://amber-online.com/archives/bowes-line Searching for 'railway' produced 152 results, so a bit of a browse is in order methinks. Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Off track> "Home Movie" Archive launched- Not Strictly Templot Related 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: Unless stated otherwise, all the files submitted to this web site are copyright and the property of the respective contributor. You ...
85. TDV Road Map
... at once. You replied, "I will add this to the modify on rebuild options in the next pug". Will that be possible? Regards Alan posted: 7 Oct 2011 22:43 from: Les G Martin Wynne wrote: With over 60 purple members now in the development group I've been a little surprised that there hasn't been more discussion about some of the new features. It can't all be working fine, surely? Hi Martin, Speaking for myself, if something seems not to be working I am first inclined to think it is something I have got wrong, or misunderstood. that is usually the case. But, as the help files and turorials develop perhaps more of us will feel able to stretch our knowledge and experience of the new templot, and then feel better qualified to report on bugs, and ease (or otherwise) of use. I have been following the dialogue of postings quite closely, but it is only in recent weeks that I have been able to spend time on getting to grips with Templot. I ...
86. Widened Lines
... How likely is this to be the true length, or is it more likely to be a mistake? Adrian posted: 20 Feb 2011 17:45 from: Martin Wynne Adrian Marks wrote: I've not seen reference to 10' sleepers on normal track in any period of railway history. How likely is this to be the true length, or is it more likely to be a mistake? Hi Adrian, Presumably that's why they were called "Widened Lines"? In the absence of any confirming evidence, I would be inclined to regard it as a mistake. An extra foot on every sleeper is an awful lot of unnecessary timber to pay for. There must be some photographs of these tracks from which we could compare dimensions? regards, Martin. posted: 20 Feb 2011 21:44 from: Adrian Marks And there was me thinking it was Brunel's influence... It is a strange dimension, and one I'm very close to dismissing as having been given, transcribed or printed in error. Tratman (ASCE Transactions 388 vol. xviii ...
87. Quick-mode
... , I have had this problem for as long as I have had the TDV, and if I loose templates or things appear to be going wrong I Quit, and re-load from the original file and start again, but this time ensuring I go straight to Normal Mode. But I was a bit niggled each time having to go in and add all the diamond crossing K check rails, and worse having to change the data to make then fit in some cases. Now as other members have pointed out, the inclination is to go back into "Normal Mode" as it is not easy to understand what is going on. It is really not the point as to what you are calling the Mode, "Normal", "Standard" or even "Usual", people will adjust to whatever. I think if you do eventually decide to start in Quick Mode, whatever your reasons are, then as you say I think there should be a large, unmistakable note/ label, across perhaps the centre of the screen which states ...
... snake onto peg, as shown again below: The hand of the template should change hand for no reason. Hi Brian, Well maybe you're right. The align over function first does facing-facing, and then if you opted for facing-trailing it does an end-swap (which always inverts the handing). But since it is so quick to invert it back if required it has never occurred to me to be a problem. Just dab CTRL+ X and it's back how you wanted it. I'm not inclined to change it because that behaviour is well established and expected by experienced users. But it perhaps needs an explanatory note for beginners. Try holding down CTRL+ X for a few seconds on a curved turnout to see how quick and easy it is to invert the handing. After that you will probably not think it worth bothering to pre-set a specific hand before aligning. regards, Martin. posted: 7 May 2011 19:50 from: Brian Nicholls Hi Martin, Many thanks for the quick response. Apologies ...
89. Cockett Station
... topic: 2212 Cockett Station posted: 7 May 2013 21:18 from: MarkAustin If you look at the track diagram of Cockett Station Goods yard, you will see two trap or catch points just after the first turnout in the yard. To put the layout into context there is a 1:200 rising gradient over virtually the whole length of the branch from the station to the yard. My original thoughts were that the trap points were to protect the turnout and therefore slaved to it's lever, but later thoughts incline to thinking they are to prevent runaways down the gradient, and would therefore have their own lever. Any thoughts?1911_071617_150000000.png posted: 8 May 2013 06:58 from: JFS Have you got the signal box diagram? Cheers, Howard posted: 8 May 2013 07:12 from: MarkAustin JFS wrote: Have you got the signal box diagram? Cheers, Howard No. Looked in TNA, but the only copy they've got is after the layout was rationalised and the Goods Branch abolished. In any case, the Goods ...
... £287.87, going through the Extreme QX 6700, the Duo X6800 to, finally, the QX 6800 at £724.00. Motherboard may be the Asus P5W DH Delux( $210.00) Hard drive Seagate Barracuda 500GB/16MB Serial ATA300, 7,200 rpm( $120.00). The 750 GB version costs $240.00- the gain does not seem to justify the expense; a 1000GB/32MB Hitachi costs a phenomenal $450.00!! Graphics card Geforce512MB 7300GT costs $55.00; 300MB $300.00;a Radeon 512MB X1650PRO $135.00. My inclination is to go for the first of each item; should provide ample power. Hope this will be of some slight value in coming to a decision. Incidentally, make sure there is ample cooling if you go for a powerful computer (fans cost in the region of £79.00 to £175.00- 700w to 1,000w). Raymond. Brian Lewis wrote: Hi, I have come up with this specification- a summation of your advices? XP PRO 6700 PROCESSOR 2 x 80GB WESTON DIGITAL HARD DRIVES 8500GT SERIES ...
... is usually only done on the outside of the rail. With flat bottom rail, the application of solder does not seem to affect the position of the rail on the sleeper. I use a small amount of a paste flux when soldering rail to PCB and a fillet is formed between the rail bottom and the copper, and also a very thin layer of solder appears to wick its way under the foot of the rail. Technically speaking, if you are modelling UK FB track, the rails should be sitting on baseplates which incline it inwards by three degrees, but I think most modellers ignore this and lay FB rail vertical. Joining the 2mm Association might not be a bad idea. I found that their parts prices could be a good bit less than those of commercial suppliers and the membership fee might well be offset by the savings on parts if you are going to lay a lot of track. The Association is also an excellent source of technical data for small scale modelling and they also advocate the conversion of a lot of RTR UK N Scale ...
... TOC's will appear. Cheers martin Attachment: attach_767_1081_p4testlayout.box 385 posted: 17 Mar 2010 18:59 from: Paul Boyd Hi Martin I've had a look, and it looks good. I know you say it's not perfect, but a couple of things I picked up:- 1- the two templates forming the diesel fuel point would be better off as a single template. I would use a transition there- assuming the Ctrl-0 end is at the turnout, use a 'transition from straight' 2- I might be inclined to curve the 3-road shed downwards a bit to remove the "designed with a ruler" look. Please don't take this the wrong way, but there are loads of diesel shed layouts out there where everything is in a straight line parallel to the edge of the board. Templot can produce some lovely flowing curves! 3- you're not going to get bored of building B-7 turnouts, are you? I guess the crossover at the top and the turnout below it will have blocked crossing work. The ...
93. Templot Crash
... of at present is that you have accumulated a huge number of unused templates in the storage box. How many do you have in there? -- main> storage box... menu item. There is an absolute limit of 30,000 templates in the storage box, but it's difficult to imagine how anyone could get anywhere near that number. On the other hand, it may be nothing to do with memory, and the wrong message has been displayed because of a bug somewhere else. On balance I'm more inclined to that view, especially in view of the division by zero error, but digging in the code I can't find any such indication. It might be worth downloading and reinstalling Templot, just in case the program file has been corrupted in some way. As for the CPU overheating, you can prevent that happening when using the mouse actions, by going to main> program panel... and then selecting the program> expert> cpu usage> allow full idle (slow) menu option. 10 years ago that ...
... Pullman race specials used Drayton& Chichester, and only the 3rd class excursions went to Singleton- my ideas for rolling stock will suggest that it worked out how the Brighton envisaged! I'm still undecided on the straight/curved option and am trying both in Templot regards Richard posted: 24 Feb 2010 19:11 from: Richard_Jones Dear Borg-rail& Jim, thanks for your observations- I am still undecided and am trying both in Templot, however if I can get something that can be set up at home, my inclination is to try and build as close to the prototype as possible, but even then those crossovers were coming out at 1:12. I know this will display my ignorance, but how will I know if the prototype used an inside or an outside double slip? All comments gratefully received Richard posted: 24 Feb 2010 21:28 from: Jim Guthrie Richard, I know this will display my ignorance, but how will I know if the prototype used an inside or an outside double slip? You would have to ...
... thanks Yes I looked at those, The "spike" is more a US version, whereas the Irish /UK is a chair screw( bolt). Maybe I can get a custom etch posted: 24 Nov 2015 12:47 from: Matt M. Hi Dave, A custom etch is probably the only way other than cutting them out by hand. All the US suppliers for HO or quarter scale make US style mainline types with four or eight holes etched in them. The plate may also be shaped with an inclined to throw the rail over to the required cant. 1 in 20 here in NSW. Not necessary, nor easy to model in 4mm. If laying the track using the rivet method you could slip half plates on either side of the rail after soldering. You could use plastic or paper to represent them at that point. I would suggest doing a trial section to see if any of this is worthwhile. Even in 7mm the plates aren't that easy to see at normal viewing distances. They are hard to spot in ...
... I have posted before. It looks that your knuckle bend is a bit too sharp (red line below): The knuckles should be radiused, the knuckle gap being wider than the crossing flangeway gap. Here's a diagram which may help when setting the wing rail knuckles: 2_220535_490000000.png The blue infill shows the theoretical ideal with a sharp bend at K exactly matching the angle of the vee and in line with it. In practice on the prototype it is not possible to make such a sharp bend because of the 1:20 inclination of the rails. Instead, a short curve is used, as shown by the green line, making the knuckle gap wider than the flangeway gap. It works fine, and can help if replicated on the model. Some companies made this curve quite gentle and obvious as shown -- the NER for example. On the GWR the curve matches the crossing angle in feet, so for example a 1:7 crossing has the knuckle bend curved at 7ft radius. But it's important to get the flangeway gap correct alongside ...
... . However that is not common in the UK and Templot doesn't support it except using partial templates. It is more common in the USA. regards, Martin. posted: 12 Nov 2015 19:11 from: DerekStuart Thanks Martin, that's just the info I wanted. I haven't received my BRT3 copy through the post yet. You've explained entry straights in quite some detail now and that is very much appreciated. I appreciate that "non-standard" track can be infinite, but on balance of probability I am more inclined to think this is a B9 rather than a B7 as a small point rod alteration would surely be easier than a one-off turnout. EDIT: I think I am in danger of turning research into an addiction. It could be either. As always, I am in debt to you for your kind help. Derek Last edited on 12 Nov 2015 19:28 by DerekStuart Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> ...
... 15:20 from: Martin Wynne JFS wrote: I can confirm that it is the Avast "Deep scan" which causes the delay. Hi Howard, Thanks for that. No doubt you are seeing the same thing with the FBR player, but it is a much smaller file, so shorter delay. Another issue with the EXE format is that it is not dpi-aware, so looks fuzzy on hi-res systems. I have been nagging Alex at EC Software about this, but so far he is not inclined to do anything about it. Individual users can change it via the file compatibility settings, but so far I can't find a way to bypass the manifest programmatically. There is also the problem that the usual IE keyboard shortcuts are not honoured, and the only way to zoom the text is using CTRL+ ROLL on the mouse wheel. All that could be avoided if I settle on the home-grown simple viewer format only, but there would be a lot of work needed to get the user interface more user- ...
... topic: 2611 Hayes-Reading crossovers 1961 posted: 9 Jan 2015 20:19 from: Martin Wynne Another article from British Railways Western Region- Civil Engineering Department Bulletin- July 1961 What is interesting here is that these new main-line fast crossovers are in bullhead rail, as late as 1961. That's only about 10 years before the introduction of the 1432mm vertical flat-bottom designs. So given a typical life, these crossovers missed out the inclined flat-bottom era entirely. The picture shows the GWR-style switch-diamonds (movable elbows) with a backing support rail behind the switch rails. I have never seen these modelled. (lathes means laths; a diplory is a small 4-wheel bogie) 2_091503_130000000.jpg 2_091503_140000001.jpg 2_091503_140000002.jpg Martin. Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> Prototype pics> Hayes-Reading crossovers 1961 about Templot Club Templot Companion- User Guide- A-Z Index Templot Explained for beginners Please click: important ...
100. Scissors Crossover
... editors: 1. Enhanced editor 1 -- this is for Internet Explorer. 2. Enhanced editor 2 -- this is for Firefox and Google Chrome. 3. Basic editor -- this is for all other browsers. 4. HTML TextArea -- this is used for the Quick Reply box. It seems that you are seeing the Basic editor. No doubt Microsoft have made another update to IE and changed everything yet again. It is a constant battle of wits keeping web sites compatible with IE and I'm not much inclined to bother any more. Please change to Firefox for Templot Club. You will then see all the previous editor functions. You don't have to use Firefox for other web sites if you don't want to. If you prefer to stay with the IE and the Basic editor, you can upload images by going to: http://85a.co.uk/forum/gallery_upload.php#gallery_top and then insert them in messages using BBcode img tags. Right-click on the full image in the gallery to get the URL. regards, ...
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