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@Wayne Kinney Hi Philip, Just to clarify that there is no connection between Wayne Kinney and myself. We are not two of anything. Wayne is trading as the proprietor of BritishFinescale and supplier of the Finetrax kits. Templot software is my hobby project available for use by anyone free of charge. I am not trading commercially. Martin.

It's worth changing the base map to "Bright":

Try: https://bustimes.org/map Covers all bus companies with GPS trackers. Tracks buses moving -- and the colour of each one. Updates about every 60 seconds. Click on a bus to see a picture of it, registration number, where it has been all day, the date of the last oil change, ... Martin.

Hi, That is referring to turnouts. The present discussion is about slips. For diamond-crossings and slips, the overall size is controlled by just 2 things -- the crossing angle and the track gauge. The type of switch used within a slip does not change its overall size. It changes the internal radius of the slip road, and the space available for the K-crossing check rails, but it does not change the overall size of the slip. That becomes obvious when you remember that a slip is simply a modified diamond-crossing. A diamond-crossing does not have a switch of any type or size. cheers, Martin.

This is an OPTION in Templot. You can set it to whatever you want: I get a bit irritated when folks say Templot does this, or Templot does that. Templot is a workshop TOOL -- it does whatever you set it to do. cheers, Martin.

Hi Rich, The switch size doesn't make any difference to the overall size of the slip which is governed only by the crossing angle and the track gauge. If you used the make slip function in Templot, a 1:7 slip will have B-type switches. It doesn't matter whether you start from an A-7 turnout or a B-7 turnout, the 1:7 slip will have B-type switches. I believe Wayne uses the same Templot designs for the Finetrax kits. The kits are supplied with suitable machined switch blades, so there is no actual need to be concerned with the size of the switch. The only way to create a 1:7 slip with A-type switches would be to create it yourself in Templot using multiple partial templates, instead of using the make slip function. It would still fit in the same overall size footprint as a 1:7 slip with B-type blades. cheers, Martin.

Well there's me. I would call it a retaining wall. It's definitely not enough to block the flow of this topic. 🙂 Martin.

If the base is above the water level, it seems not to serve much purpose? Or maybe this is an "add a caption" competition? This is the Whacky Signs topic. 🙂 "Hilly footpath to lake." "Cut strawberries in half and place on top of Weetabix." Martin.

If the dams didn't block a watercourse the Elan Valley reservoirs would take a very long time to fill up! The correct term for an earth mound or embankment to retain water in a storage reservoir, as at Bartley, is a bund, not a dam: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bund The word dam means to block or stop something. There was nothing to be blocked or stopped at Bartley when they built the reservoir. If that's what they call the earth mound, they are the ones talking rubbish. 🙂 Here's the bund around the reservoir at Trimpley, well-known to passengers on the Severn Valley Railway, which runs alongside it. With not a whacky sign in sight. This topic drift needs damming up. 🙂 cheers, Martin.

Bartley is a reservoir, not a dam. Its inflow is from the Elan Aqueduct, not by blocking a watercourse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartley_Reservoir It's Bill Oddie country. Martin.

No there isn't. The dams are 70 miles away in the middle of Wales: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elan_aqueduct Martin.

A more likely candidate might be the North & West line, which runs right past the Woofferton transmitter site. It's known to affect the railway, see: https://www.herefordtimes.com/news/11054498.bbc-radio-transmitter-disrupts-trains-between-leominster-and-ludlow/ At one time it was broadcasting Voice Of America on short-wave to Europe. Over the years there have been local mutterings about strange foreign language interference with radio and tv reception, conspiracy theories about what is really going on there, dangers to health from mobile phones, etc. Martin.

First thing I did. Posted yesterday (5th April). Contains screenshots of radio signal dated yesterday (5th April). Martin.

Using the rails this is a bit silly. But an extra cable in the cable ducts?

Maybe, see: https://tfgm.com/public-transport/bus/routes/42b-woodford 42B Woodford to Piccadilly Gardens bus route On Friday and Saturday evenings, from 8pm to 1am, bus services will divert around the Curry Mile in Rusholme. Services will divert from Wilmslow Rd onto Platt Lane, turn right along Lloyd St to Moss Lane East to resume their normal route. On this map you can watch the buses running: https://bustimes.org/services/42-piccadilly-gardens-heaton-lane-bus-station-stan#map If you click on a bus, you can see where it has been all day, or if you click on the Flickr link you can see pictures of the actual bus. This is so you can recognise it when it arrives, and not mistake it for a milk float or a fire engine: https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=SK23CSF or "SK23 CSF" or Stagecoach 11730&sort=date-taken-desc Martin.

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Many of the sat-navs use the data from OpenStreetMap because unlike Google it's free: https://www.openstreetmap.org Anyone can edit OpenStreetMap, you just need to register an account on there. If you say where these narrow lanes are, I will edit OSM accordingly. If there is an actual sign saying No Through Road it will be legitimate to put a break in the road. Or if they look like farm tracks from the aerial images it will be legitimate to change them from roads to tracks. It might take a month or two before the sat-navs update their maps from the OSM database, but they will do so eventually. Martin.

But that means you must park your vehicle, whether you want to or not. "No parking outside of bays" would be the usual wording. Better would be "Please park within the marked bays only. Thank you."

Templot sorts it out for you. Select the required prototype WAY dimension and Templot will calculate and use the required model track CENTRES. For 00 etc. the distance between the rails is increased accordingly. On sharp curves increase the WAY setting to ensure adequate running clearance. Or you can use the dummy vehicle function to find out and set the required increased track centres. Martin.

@Wayne Kinney Hi Wayne, I have limited moderator privileges on this section of RMweb only, because it specifically references Templot. I have updated the title to refer to the Scalefour Society for the P4 kits. Are you planning to add them to your own web site? cheers, Martin.

@Wayne Kinney Hi Wayne, Just a heads-up that the template download link on your website for the 00-SF A5 is actually for the Standard 00 A5. cheers, Martin.

@ikcdab Hi Ian, That's what the program size slider is for (bottom right of screen): Adjust it to give Templot a comfortable size on your screen. cheers, Martin.

A railway should be easy: