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posted: 28 May 2009 10:14 from: Bill Fay click the date to link to this post click member name to view archived images |
Good Morning, A plea for some advice, but first of all I should introduce myself. Having dabbled in model railways in the ‘70s I returned to it on retirement. Started in N gauge but soon found that it did not meet my pre grouping interests so moved to 2mmFS. My real road to Damascus moment was building my first 2mm track. It just looked right, even allowing for my uneven soldering so consigned the N gauge track to the toy box. I bought Templot early this year and have followed the tutorials, “played around” with it and feel I have grasped the basics at least. My main interest is Great Central so on to my query. To build skills I am planning to produce, with the aid of Templot, a model of Charwelton based on the 1900 survey, when it was a simple through station and small goods yard. Can anybody advise me as to the timbering used on turnouts by the GCR when the London Extension was built? Also are they likely to have used a standard V crossing angle on most turnouts or would each one have been determined by location? Lastly they used 30' rails and 9' sleepers with 11 sleepers per length; how far in from the rail ends for the first and last sleepers on each rail length? I have asked this on the GCR forum but this did not produce enough detailed info. I hope this is a suitable query for the Templot Club as it is not a technical question about using Templot as such. Many thanks for your indulgence. Bill PS Please don’t be offended if I do not respond to a posting immediately. I live in the dark ages and access the internet via my local library only once or twice a week. PPS May I say how very impressed I am by the amount of support and development time Martin gives to Templot. When does the guy eat and sleep! Must have been born into the era when service meant just that, not the modern way of fob off (or is it s*d off) with words and take no action. |
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posted: 29 May 2009 00:25 from: Bill_Lobb
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Bill Fay wrote: main interest is Great Central so on to my query. To build skills I am planning to produce, with the aid of Templot, a model of Charwelton based on the 1900 survey, when it was a simple through station and small goods yard. Can anybody advise me as to the timbering used on turnouts by the GCR when the London Extension was built? Also are they likely to have used a standard V crossing angle on most turnouts or would each one have been determined by location? Lastly they used 30' rails and 9' sleepers with 11 sleepers per length; how far in from the rail ends for the first and last sleepers on each rail length? I have asked this on the GCR forum but this did not produce enough detailed info.Hi, Bill, I don't know anything about GC track, but I attach a box file with some library templates I have created of MR plain track in 2FS. There are two different patterns of 30' rail with 11 sleepers. It might be useful as a fallback if you can't find anything better. Bill Lobb |
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posted: 2 Jun 2009 09:56 from: Bill Fay click the date to link to this post click member name to view archived images |
Bill, Many thanks, it is quite possable that GCR and Midland would have had the same spacing for 30' rail. Bill Bill_Lobb wrote: Bill Fay wrote:main interest is Great Central so on to my query. To build skills I am planning to produce, with the aid of Templot, a model of Charwelton based on the 1900 survey, when it was a simple through station and small goods yard. Can anybody advise me as to the timbering used on turnouts by the GCR when the London Extension was built? Also are they likely to have used a standard V crossing angle on most turnouts or would each one have been determined by location? Lastly they used 30' rails and 9' sleepers with 11 sleepers per length; how far in from the rail ends for the first and last sleepers on each rail length? I have asked this on the GCR forum but this did not produce enough detailed info.Hi, Bill, |
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