... :- "In the pre-grouping era, some railways used 12 inch wide timbers in place of standard sleepers adjacent to the rail joints in plain track." and as I am using 8'6" sleepers for post-grouping it seems that the practice may have been no longer used. Rob posted: 29 Mar 2015 13:27 from: Martin Wynne Hi Rob, As Ian says, you can widen a sleeper by 2" by clicking the widen button (or pressing W) on the shove timber dialog: 2_290815_040000000.png To avoid having to do this on every template, you can make some changes before you start the track plan. Extend a good long length of approach and exit track on a turnout template, and widen all the joint sleepers. Tick the retain option boxes on the dialog above. Now you can shorten the turnout again for use. The shoved timbers will be retained in your subsequently stored templates, and reappear when required if you extend the length of them. This includes any plain track templates, which will use the ...