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TEMPLOT 3D PLUG TRACK - To get up to speed with this experimental project click here.   To watch an introductory video click here.   See the User Guide at Bexhill West.

  • The Plug Track functions are experimental and still being developed. Some of the earlier pages of this topic are now out-of-date.

    For an updated overview of this project see this topic.   For some practical modelling aspects of using Plug Track see Building 3D Track.

    The assumption is that you have your own machines on which to experiment, or helpful friends with machines. Please do not send Templot files to commercial laser cutting or 3D printing firms while this project is still experimental, because the results are unpredictable and possibly wasteful.

    Some pages of this and other topics include contributions from members who are creating and posting their own CAD designs for 3D printing and laser-cutting. Do not confuse them with Templot's own exported CAD files. All files derived from Templot are © Martin Wynne.
  • The Plug Track functions are experimental and still being developed.

    For an updated overview of this project see this topic.   For some practical modelling aspects of using Plug Track see Building 3D Track.

    The assumption is that you have your own machines on which to experiment, or helpful friends with machines. Please do not send Templot files to commercial laser cutting or 3D printing firms while this project is still experimental, because the results are unpredictable and possibly wasteful.

    Some pages of this and other topics include contributions from members who are creating and posting their own CAD designs for 3D printing and laser-cutting. Do not confuse them with Templot's own exported CAD files. All files derived from Templot are © Martin Wynne.

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A picture in the news today brought back memories:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-66002012

It was in Hereford Reference Library that I first started delving into prototype Permanent Way when I started 85A Models in 1974. They were very helpful in providing photocopies and drawings. I remember going by train from Worcester on a very wet day. Where do the years go?

Martin.
 
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Hi Martin,
I used to love a day trip to Hereford. Park the car by the bus station, walk down Commerial Road to Hereford Model Centre and stare with awe at all the glass cabinets - I even spent some money in there too. Back to the car and a run down to Hay-on-Wye for an afternoon round the bookshops.

I knew a farm just outside of Hereford who made their own cider and I usually came back with a rustic crate( or two ) - it didn't taste at all like Bulmers or others you saw in the supermarkets back home. It used to be a treat back then to come back from day trips or UK holidays with local produce. These days the fun has gone out of shopping - you just go to the nearest big Tesco or onto your Prime account and you are done. Shame.

There were a few cyder farms down in Kent where we used to holiday and we used to drive round spotting all the Oast houses we could.

Rob
 
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@Rob Manchester

Hi Rob,

It was in Hereford Model Centre that Norman Fincham met a certain Tony Miles, newly arrived in the area from Up North, and brought him to a meeting of our West Mercian EM Group. That would have been about 1982. Tony brought with him some of his scratch-built GNR(I) locomotives in P4. We had never seen anything like it. One of them subsequently won a Gold Medal at the Model Engineer Exhibition -- not many 4mm models do that.

The upshot being that the next 20 years of my modelling life were spoken for -- helping Tony to build his well-known Irish P4 layout Adavoyle Junction. With Tony there was no getting out of it -- I'm not sure that I ever forgave Norman. :)

Martin.
 
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