... , what am I doing wrong and please how do I change it? Hi John, Welcome to Templot Club. You are not doing anything wrong. Templot has several timbering styles and you can choose which one you prefer, or the one which matches your prototype. The style you have there is called equalized incremental. The style you are looking for is called square-on. You can change between them by going to the timbering menu. In version 074b it's at geometry> timbering> menu options, like this: timbering_style_074b.png (In later versions of Templot timbering is under the real menu.) (If you are not modelling 00 gauge, notice also in that menu that 9ft long sleepers is the option set at startup. If you are modelling modern track you should change it to 8ft-6in sleepers. But if you leave it at 9ft, Templot will draw some dotted lines on the sleepers where the 8ft-6in ends would be, so it doesn't matter too much, provided you remember to trim the sleepers to the dotted lines ...