... /timbers overlap each other, and when should the angle change? posted: 3 Mar 2016 21:45 from: Martin Wynne Robin Gristwood wrote: I'm not sure about is just how many 'long' timbers I should use on a crossover, particularly if the adjacent track centres are greater than the minimum. Hi Robin, This varies according to the prototype company and period. For example the GWR tended to use many more long timbers than some other companies, such as the LNER. Here is part of your plan: 2_031622_290000000.png By default Templot uses long timbers as far as the rail joints in the vee rails, and plain sleepers beyond, as you can see here. Typically this results in the longest timber being about 15ft or 16ft long, according to your settings for the length of the vee rails and position of the joints. But the GWR specified long timbers until the vee spread to the gauge faces reached 3ft (21mm in 7mm/ft scale), which I have shown here using the Templot ruler tool. So for the GWR ...