martin_wynne

Is it open season now?

What production run? This is a track standard for modellers to use when building their track in the privacy of their own workshop. If they want to. Or not if they don't. There is nothing to be produced. You seem to know more about my living than I do. I'm retired, have been for several years, and my only "product", Templot, is available free of charge for anyone to use. Martin.

Why not? No-one is under the slightest obligation to adopt it. All options have some pros and cons. This one allows 3.5mm/ft and 4mm/ft models to run together on the same track with much finer flangeways than H0 or 00. I'm thinking not many will want to do that, but for those who do the finer flangeways can make it easier to create complex track formations such as tandems and slips. The more choices the merrier. The only important point is that each one should have its own name, and Andy has obviously considered that as a priority to avoid confusion. Martin.

Hi Andy, It's difficult to see much advantage in this. Changing every wheel while retaining the 16.5mm gauge, and then rebuilding all the pointwork so that no other 00 models can run on it, doesn't look like a half-way house to anywhere. If rebuilding all the track you may as well be doing it in P4. Before I can put 00-P as a pre-set in Templot I need to know your proposed flangeway gap. There are currently several dimensions in use: S3.5 (Proto-87 USA and UK): 0.53 - 0.58mm P-87 (Proto-87 Europe): 0.60mm S4: 0.58mm P4: 0.68mm regards, Martin.

Peter, there is something wrong with your grey-scale conversion. What happened to the yellow cabs? This looks a bit better: Martin.

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/red-midland-bus-and-sheep-1960s-william-r-hart.html

Excellent pic, creative or not. I've copied it to the modelling department: http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/100339-renewed-switch-rail/

1978

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/red-midland-bus-and-sheep-1960s-william-r-hart.html

Chirk 1997.

Worcester Cathedral

Crown Lane, Hartlebury. Widening and bridge replacement 1986.

6-bolt fishplates can't be used with bullhead rail because they would force the timbers too far apart to properly support the joint. Unlike flat-bottom, bullhead fishplates must fit between the chairs and keys, not over the top of the baseplates. That's why 2-bolt fishplates were sometimes used -- to get the timbers closer to the joint. For normal bullhead track, 4-bolt fishplates with adjacent timbers at 24" or 25" centres are near universal. Martin.

Although stainless steel can be soldered, it is a pain, and requires an aggressive flux which needs cleaning off afterwards. OK for a physical fixing, but totally unsuitable for electrical connections. Electrical connections to stainless steel should be clipped or crimped. Martin.

Visitors to the Severn Valley Railway may like to know that there is a Teddy Gray's sweet shop and ice cream parlour just a short walk from the station in Bewdley. It's on the corner over the bridge. Just the same as in the film and very popular with visitors. Still the same little shop that I remember as a boy 60 years ago. Martin.