Cransford
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- New Southgate
Martin and the assembled throng, good afternoon as we claw our way out of lockdown.
I've been having a dabble with a few track plans using the NLS website as source and the inserting background map function, with a fresh start each time in Templot setting the gauge to S4/P4. But, I seem to have hit a problem with sizing, which I hope isn't just operator incompetence!
Looking at the NLS map for Hawkhurst in Kent - https://maps.nls.uk/view/103683476 - and comparing a suitable layout length with the map's scale, I get a straight line distance around 900 feet. Making a wild assumption that P4 is 4mm/1 foot scale, then that should equate to a layout length of circa 3.6 metres. But, when I download the map (following rules of clicking the link button and zooming only with the map icons and clicking green options), the straight line length comes out as 7.5 metres and if you try to place a template in position, the sleeper ends fit between the rails of the map.
I don't seem to have had this problem previously and wonder exactly where I've been going wrong? I've attached the bgs file of the map for your benefit.
Look forward to answers between boiled eggs!
Paul
I've been having a dabble with a few track plans using the NLS website as source and the inserting background map function, with a fresh start each time in Templot setting the gauge to S4/P4. But, I seem to have hit a problem with sizing, which I hope isn't just operator incompetence!
Looking at the NLS map for Hawkhurst in Kent - https://maps.nls.uk/view/103683476 - and comparing a suitable layout length with the map's scale, I get a straight line distance around 900 feet. Making a wild assumption that P4 is 4mm/1 foot scale, then that should equate to a layout length of circa 3.6 metres. But, when I download the map (following rules of clicking the link button and zooming only with the map icons and clicking green options), the straight line length comes out as 7.5 metres and if you try to place a template in position, the sleeper ends fit between the rails of the map.
I don't seem to have had this problem previously and wonder exactly where I've been going wrong? I've attached the bgs file of the map for your benefit.
Look forward to answers between boiled eggs!
Paul
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