... Return to Bawtry by Jack Smith (The Waterdale Press, 1992, ISBN 0 906976 33 2). Jack Smith spent 13 years at Bawtry, where his father was Station Master from 1930. I had lived at Bawtry during the 1980's but until I read this book I hadn't thought of using it as the prototype, the station at the time I lived there having been closed for many years. The book showed a busy little station with local passenger workings to Doncaster and Grantham, a goods yard, coal train loops and storage sidings, and main line express trains thundering past. There was even a branch line though in the 1930's this had been reduced to one goods train a week. The book included a hand drawn map of the track layout- with a scale! It was a much larger place then than it was when I lived there and the goods yard had become an industrial estate. So, over the last year or so I have been working on a Templot plan of the area using the map as a background image. The ...

... etc. Many thanks Martin... Last edited on 16 Oct 2009 15:41 by Gordon S posted: 16 Oct 2009 15:59 from: Martin Wynne Gordon S wrote: Once you have set all your colours for different levels and laid them one on top of another, how can you change the order of the levels within the software Hi Gordon, The templates with the lowest numbers go at the bottom of the print/ screen view. You can move individual templates up or down on the list in the storage box. Click the show box list button, click on the template in the list and then use the brown up/down arrow buttons on the right. But moving whole groups of templates around that way would be extremely tedious. Instead, it's a good idea to keep each level in a separate .box file -- group> save group... menu item. You can first create a group from all the templates of one colour at group> group select> select by marker colour... menu item ...

... they are not georeferenced to modern web maps and zoom levels. This means that this screenshot won't align or scale exactly over the georeferenced 1897 version. It is likely to be rotated at a slight angle from it, and some lines which are dead straight in one might be fractionally curved in the other (platform edges for example), and vice versa. Also, the scaling might not be exact, and you may want to adjust it very fractionally. The NLS scanned the old paper sheets, which after a century of storage may have shrunk/distorted a bit and may not have been printed as accurately as modern maps in the first place. When I was developing the code I spent a long time looking at these original scans from different parts of the country and comparing the dots-per-mile values. The end result is the best approximation I could make, but it won't be spot-on for all sheets. Ask again if you can't get it to work. p.s. no boiled egg today (yet), but I ...

... its radius and transition settings (this is just part of a larger plan). The turnout size and location can change; I'd like a minimum radius of around 1250mm. 499_080407_530000000.png I've included the box file. Thanks. (off for another day in the garden: time to sow sweet pea seeds, and take some rose cuttings) Attachment: attach_3173_3811_scratch_for_fan_o ut_2020_11_07_1020_56.box 14 posted: 8 Nov 2020 13:43 from: Martin Wynne Hi Richard, There's quite a lot to think about for a fan of sidings. The first is storage capacity. Do you want roughly equal length in all roads? That means laying out the turnouts in a tree configuration with each road splitting into two. Or with one much longer road but each additional road getting progressively shorter? That means laying out the turnouts in a string along the inner or outer road. If the string configuration is laid along the running line, it has an advantage for model control in that to select a road only one turnout needs to be reversed, the rest being reset normal. So a ...

... local climate conditions, requiring ultra-dry conditions to remain usable. My preference for fixing metal to plastic would be a 2-part epoxy. cheers, Martin. posted: 22 Apr 2018 12:14 from: JFS Hello Martin, Indeed so, but the point I quoted was the was the one I was addressing. The unavoidable fact is- all cyanoacrylates have a shelf life- even if un-opened- you can buy this stuff VERY cheaply if short-dated! The data sheet is very specific about storage after opening- particularly about maintaining an air hole. Something which tend to ignore, letting the stuff build-up on the nozzle. Rob's point that a "general" cyano gets used up before it goes off can be turned round to say that a "proper" one can also be used for other jobs but it will do the difficult jobs better. But I would never use a cheap glue for a difficult job just because it is cheap- but that is a personal choice. Epoxy is also usually my ...

... Class 24s had taken over.The shed had lost its roof but was otherwise intact; I think your pic shows it in this state. We stayed in a B&B in Loch Carron. Every morning you could hear the 24s shunting the goods sidings across the loch. I've tried to pin-point where the sidings were; they could have been at Strome but I had a feeling they were higher up the loch. Before BR ditched general freight the line had quite extensive freight traffic and the sidings carried overflow from the limited storage facilities at Kyle. Nigel Last edited on 1 Nov 2020 01:41 by Nigel Brown posted: 1 Nov 2020 07:17 from: Julian Roberts Interesting to know that even then there was still extensive freight traffic. The limitation of the layout I'm making (which will be dated early BR) is that most of the shunting will be offstage. Some shunting did come up to the engine shed area, and I'll have to invent additional moves, and reasons to use the siding by the shed. Long way to ...

... and it will re-appear when there is something to report. Other smaller dialog windows appear in the usual way as needed. In the screenshot above I am editing the control_room unit. Users who were in at the first release of Templot in 1999 will recognise these names. This window is now called the program panel, but it was then called the "control room". I changed it on the visible window to avoid confusion with the control template, but the original names in the code haven't changed. Likewise the storage box is in the keep_select unit. Stored templates were then called "keeps". I was persuaded to change the name by Brian Lewis (then of C&L ), but I often regret it. You will find the term "keep" for a stored template is still used throughout the code. The Object Inspector above is currently showing the settings for the recent files button object. You can see that I have clicked on it, and it has gained some corner handles which could be used to drag it ...

... outlines in different colours. I wish there was a "rails and timbers only" setting though Cheers Attachment: attach_441_667_locking_road.dxf 336 posted: 21 Dec 2008 19:20 from: Martin Wynne Brian Lewis wrote I do not know how to export Templot designs as .DXF files, but if this is possible- purely unfilled sleepers and the rails, then it should be reasonably easy. Hi Brian, Exporting to DXF is easy, and you can choose which details to include in the file, and in which colours. Go to the storage box window (CTRL-B ), and click the files> export DXF... menu item on that window. This dialog appears: dxf_for_laser.png On the drop-down boxes, select "none" for the details which you want to omit. This is the result of the above settings, opened in TurboCad: dxf_for_laser_intc.png That's just a single turnout (B7), but it could be an entire track plan, or a part of one (" selected group only" option). regards, Martin. ...

... can only handle full templates and not the partial templates required for tandem turnouts. Hi Alan, Phil, That's correct, but it applies only to diagram mode output. In normal detail mode all templates should appear in the output. In diagram mode, Templot fills colour between the stock rails. If one of the stock rails is omitted in a partial template, it can't be output in diagram mode. The solution as Phil says is to temporarily place plain track templates over the tandem turnouts. You can keep them in the storage box and file as unused templates and copy them to the background when needed. cheers, Martin. posted: 19 May 2019 12:00 from: Alan Kettlewell Hi Martin and Phil, Many thanks- I've done that and got a decent print now. Appreciated. Cheers Alan Parts of Templot Club may not function unless you enable JavaScript (also called Active Scripting) in your browser. Templot Club> Forums> I found a flaw> Output>export a file [to .png] about Templot Club Templot Companion- ...

... space in the first few pages. The entries on the contents list should be clickable to go to the relevant pages, and most of the links within it should work, depending on the mood your PDF reader program is in. What it does do is make it only too clear how much remains to be done on there. One day. cheers, Martin. posted: 5 Nov 2019 20:45 from: Rob Manchester Hello Martin, Good idea. I have downloaded the Companion PDF and saved it in my cloud storage. I would like to nominate 5.13.1- partial templates to go on the NOD list. A few people ask me how they work and I always worry that I am not confident in their use Can all the Forum posts be backed up? I think there may be an awful lot of data there but it forms a very valuable reference. Lets not get too paranoid though- as you quite correctly say it is only model railway track Rob posted: 5 Nov 2019 21:46 from: Martin Wynne Rob Manchester wrote ...