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Mike, Your Excel file needed the D column extending to cover the longest length of text. Then save your Excel file as normal, and also save your file as Text(Tab Deliminated) (*.txt). You will then have two files saved, index.xlsx and index.txt Open the index.txt file and you can then copy and paste the info into your replies here on the forum, like I have done below. I have re-attached the files here for you to download. Page Date Post No. Subject 1 16/11/2012 1 Conception and reasoning 2 17/11/2012 36 First blockwork added to rebuild the 'den' 2 17/11/2012 36 Baseboard construction design 2 22/11/2012 36 Tried Templot out! 2 25/11/2012 36 Blockwork half way - Stil trying Templot - Preparing plans on buildings etc. 2 30/11/2012 36 Started baseboards - Getting to grips? With Templot 2 02/12/2012 36 Baseboard construction - Den rebuild update 2 02/12/2012 38 Cracking photos of Dent in the 60's 3 13/12/2012 53 Templot files lost! Building structure up and awaiting roof covering 3 17/12/2012 56 Roof cover now on. Various modelling plans be redied for holidays 3 27/12/2012 62 Windows now in and building secure 3 28/12/2012 63 Baseboard construction - basic frame shown. Dummy run on station buildings 3 28/12/2012 64 More cracking photos of Dent in the 60's 4 29/12/2001 72 Rise Hill' tunnelmouth commenced 5 02/01/2013 103 David Jenkinson S&C style articles database (courtesy: IanD) 5 02/01/2013 106 Tunnelmouth completion 6 05/01/2013 136 Bracket signal prep. Viaduct thoughts! 6 27/01/2013 152 Coal Road bridge commenced 7 10/02/2013 161 Fiddleyard ideas! 7 12/02/2013 170 Roof completed! 7 20/02/2013 171 Station building window and door components arrive! 7 25/03/2013 172 Floor now finished in den 8 26/03/2013 176 1st C&L Point kits arrived 8 07/04/2013 180 "Pic's of the den rebuild to date, awaiting plastering" 8 07/04/2013 181 Mould making to make the stone walling 8 21/04/2013 186 Den plastered and painted internally 8 19/05/2013 195 Den completed and beginning the task of moving in ! 8 19/05/2013 195 Commencement of 'circular' spirals 9 25/08/2013 203 Circular' Spirals completed with track laid 9 25/08/2013 203 Layout & Fiddleyard Baseboards in position 9 25/08/2013 203 Templot track plans on F/Y and copperclad laid 9 25/08/2013 203 Templot track plans on main line with bridge in place 9 28/08/2013 212 First copperclad point constructed 9 01/09/2013 214 L/H 'Up' pointwork complete in F/Y 9 22/09/2013 221 First C&L point completed 9 22/09/2013 221 Wiring shown on L/H Fiddleyard 10 29/09/2013 228 Found out spirals were too steep!!!! 10 06/10/2013 240 Altered spiral to an elongated style and tested successfully! 11 01/11/2013 257 Full spiral tested out okay 11 01/11/2013 257 Commenced station building structure in perspex 11 03/11/2013 257 Station building basic structure complete 11 13/11/2013 270 Spiral track laying 13 01/12/2013 286 Commenced track laying on scenic section 13 27/12/2013 308 Track laying continuing with C&L slips an point kits 13 01/01/2014 321 Wiring shown on main scenic boards 14 05/01/2014 337 Control panel diagram commenced 14 15/01/2014 348 More main wiring 14 15/01/2014 348 STOVE arrives!!! 14 15/01/2014 348 Main line part ballasted and 1st 'posed' train 15 26/01/2014 370 Most main line track laid 16 02/02/2014 410 More posed shots 16 02/02/2014 411 Control panel structure completed 18 13/02/2014 435 More cracking photos of Dent in the 60's 18 15/02/2014 440 Airbrushed track prior to ballasting 18 15/02/2014 440 Control panel wiring in detail 19 23/02/2014 473 Platforms being fitted in place 19 23/02/2014 475 Coal Road bridge fitted 21 02/03/2014 501 Baseboard joints and refuge sidings ballasted 21 04/03/2014 518 "Point motors fitted to R/H fiddleyard, in detail" 22 09/03/2014 533 Point motor & general wiring on F/Y board 23 14/03/2014 557 Wiring of D-Sub connectors in detail etc. 23 18/03/2014 561 Wiring completed in order to get a line running each way 25 06/04/2014 607 Up line operational but can't upload video? 26 20/04/2014 626 Very first piece of scenic foam base fitted! Followed by platforms etc. 26 20/04/2014 626 Monkey Beck culvert fascia started 26 21/04/2014 626 Platform retaining wall fitted 26 21/04/2014 631 Culvert taking shape 26 21/04/2014 632 Bridge over approach road in place 26 27/04/2014 650 "Hillsides taking shape, platform walls fitted and painted" 27 27/04/2014 652 "First application of Mod-Roc, platform faces painted and weathered" 27 04/05/2014 663 Ground cover aplied to board 'A' 27 04/05/2014 669 Control panel wiring photos 28 11/05/2014 699 Modern Image on Dent already!!! 29 11/05/2014 702 Both platform surfaces 'gritted'. Roadway in place 29 17/05/2014 708 Station approach and car park surface done 29 17/05/2014 709 First application of GRASS made! This is just a base blend. 30 27/05/2014 740 "Scenics continuing onto Board 'B', 'C' and 'D'" 30 29/05/2014 748 "Fell's almost completed, with small viaduct to add interest to board 'D'" 31 01/06/2014 755 Fells get a coat of Base Mix grass with some 'Trains in the Landscape pic's 32 08/06/2014 792 "Change of plan at the viaduct, a new rockface terrain is being applied" 32 08/06/2014 792 Tunnelmouth construction for Board 'D' 33 12/06/2014 804 Tunnelmouth progress and first stage of the famous Snow Fences 33 15/06/2014 815 Rock face continues with riverbed detail added 33 21/06/2014 824 "Change of plan on the rockface, colour altered to grey limestone" 33 22/06/2014 834 Selection of 'staged shots' with scenic boards in position 34 29/06/2014 847 Left Hand fiddleyard track laid and board wired 34 29/06/2014 847 Some scenic detail added at the rockface and at this point I was thinking what to name it 35 06/07/2014 863 More fiddleyard wiring 35 06/07/2014 863 More control panel wiring 36 13/07/2014 878 Left fiddleyard wiring completed 36 13/07/2014 878 Right hand fiddle yard tracklaying showing details 37 26/07/2014 909 Right hand fiddle yard wiring completed 37 03/08/2014 916 Central fiddleyard boards tracklaying and wiring done 37 03/08/2014 916 First views of the whole layout assembled! 37 03/08/2014 916 First successful day of running trains!!! 37 10/08/2014 950 First views of stock assembled on fiddleyard 38 10/08/2014 951 Staged shots with several trains on view 40 12/08/2014 979 Found out that much of my stock requires re-wheeling! And some solutions 40 16/08/2014 982 Retaining wall detailing 40 16/08/2014 982 Stone walling being fitted on 'Down' side fields 40 16/08/2014 984 Another appearance of BR blue! 40 17/08/2014 992 Signal box equipment photo 40 18/08/2014 995 Wheel problem solutions 41 19/08/2014 1007 Station perimeter fencing fitted 42 22/08/2014 1026 Snow fences being erected and painted 42 22/08/2014 1026 Stone walling completed and painted on both side of the track 42 23/08/2014 1032 Gallery shots of various trains running through the scenic sections 42 23/08/2014 1035 Populated Fiddleyard views 43 24/08/2014 1056 Bufferstops made and fitted 43 24/08/2014 1057 Down' Starter fitted 44 30/08/2014 1097 Dressed up the fascia of the layout 45 31/08/2014 1102 Some scenic detail added at the Monkey Beck area 45 31/08/2014 1103 Steel fencing being made 45 31/08/2014 1103 Yard crane appears 47 06/09/2014 1163 Further scenic work carried out 47 06/09/2014 1163 Illuminated the fiddleyard! 47 06/09/2014 1163 1st application of a Static Grass mix 47 06/09/2014 1165 Snow fences now completed 47 06/09/2014 1165 1st application of scenic water in Monkey Beck 47 07/09/2014 1174 Gallery shots of various trains running through the scenic sections 51 12/09/2014 1175 1st application of scenic water in Monkey Widdale Beck. This is the name I have chosen for the south exit 52 14/09/2014 1292 Fitting of cosmetic fishplates 52 14/09/2014 1292 More water added to both beck's 52 14/09/2014 1293 Gallery shots of various trains running through the scenic sections 53 17/09/2014 1316 Gallery shots of various trains running through the scenic sections 54 21/09/2014 1337 Gallery shots of various BR Blue running through the scenic sections EDIT= Should have said, in Excel, choose Save As from the File menu to get the options of which format to save in. RMWeb.Index.xlsx RMWeb.Index.txt

Where's that gardener c u m bricklayer c u m mega baseboard maker when you need him

There is something about a naked shed that just makes your legs go like jelly. Sweet dreams tonight Andy

I can't argue with your post Ray, I'm no expert in signalling All I remember from my steam days watching my local pickup was a lot of flag waving by the bobby

Here is my take on it Andy. The Up pickup goods would approach the outer distant(12) set a caution, slow for the outer home(11) which would be at danger, as the train neared the outer home(11) it would be pulled off and the train would slowly approach the starter(10) set at danger. The engine or engine and wagons to be shunted would be uncoupled, moving forward on a green flag from the signal box and leaving the rest of the train in the platform. Shunting would then proceed. In the meantime another train could be accepted on the Up Main and stopped at outer home(11) until the shunt was complete. When the shunt was completed, the starter(10) would be pulled off and the pickup would proceed on its way. If the engine of pickup was beyond the starter(10) due to many wagons being added the it would be called on by a green flag from the signal box.

Too true. Einstein and I had a plan to slow down time but we have lost the formula, we are blaming that Dr Who fella for pinching it

A nous for detective work, a fast broadband connection and a knack of searching in the right places But then I still lose things round the house and can't remember what I did an hour ago

1974 or later, it left Bitton for the Great Central but I cannot find a date, 45379 had been rescued from Barry and parked up, minus most of its motion. There is quite a modern truck in the background as well (Volvo?) http://www.watercressline.co.uk/article.php/30/45379-lms-black-5

Nice baseboard

Glad to be of assistance. There are some really nice Scottish branch termini track layouts that cry out to be modelled. It is a shame the English government were not so accommodating in making the large scale maps free.

Dent http://maps.nls.uk/view/102344368#zoom=6&lat=3009&lon=12393&layers=BT This added link might help to navigate the whole of the UK, I find it a difficult site to navigate but perseverance gets you there in the end. http://maps.nls.uk/geo/find/#zoom=9&lat=54.15011&lon=-1.75471&layers=B000000FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFTFFFFFFFT EDIT: Chose ENGLAND & WALES Ordnace Survey

Perhaps I now understand why people get so addicted to soaps on the telly. We are all just waiting here for that next bit of info that will start us off on the trail of detective work which I find so interesting. Its not fantasy but real stuff we are learning all the time and enjoyable in the process. Thanks for taking us along for the ride Andy

Cut & shut!

I guess it has. One of the first kits I ever made back in 1958 along with the station and platforms which were too long for the oval of track I had. I remember doing the dockside crane which straddled across the main line, the only line I had, what imagination back then

The Airfix Kit of Oakham Level Crossing (Rutland) box was a Midland Type 2B

screen grabbed from Google Maps

You can do a screen grab, Snipping Tool in windows7 or try one of these http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-screen-capture-tool.htm#SnapDraw or Faststone Viewer http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

You're getting more confused than me Andy too many posts in one day This was from the Semaphore site, http://semaphore.avonvalleyrailway.org/html/frames.html You do have to search around it though to find relevent information Ivatt 2-6-2T No. 41243 approaches Bitton Station with a three coach local train from Bristol, bound for Bath Green Park. This photograph shows the layout at the north end of Bitton very well. A Single Slip point (controlled by levers 4 and 5 in the signal box) gave access from the main line to the yard, which then fanned out into four sidings. To the right can be seen the two, long coal sidings, whilst the point immediately in front of the photographer led one line, past a five ton capacity hand operated crane, through the goods shed; with the other curving around the outside of that building, and running in to the cattle dock. The goods shed siding was closed and removed in 1964, followed by the other three sidings on 19th July 1965, two weeks after Bitton closed to goods traffic (5/7/1965). As is well documented elsewhere, the last scheduled BR passenger trains ran on Saturday 5th March 1966, with the line closing the following day, along with the whole of the Somerset and Dorset Railway. Immediately behind the Ivatt, and largely hidden by it, can be seen Bitton Signal Box, a Midland Railway timber type 2B which opened on 19/7/1894, replacing an earlier box. The signal box closed on 19th July 1965, when the yard sidings were closed, and was demolished long before preservationists reached the site in 1972. In the middle, extreme right of the picture can be seen the tall Bitton Down Home signal, controlled by lever No. 2 in Bitton Box. Just visible behind the last coach (between the down main and the head shunt) can be seen the yellow ground signal (lever 6) which controlled the exit of trains from the yard in a northerly direction. A similar yellow ground signal (lever 7) controlled the exit of trains from the yard in a southerly direction, this being behind the photographer. Photograph by Ronald E Toop. I'm off to check my name now

Andy The photo Al posted of the signal box of Butterley CF is a Midland Type 2a, originally at Ais Gill, the same as you will be modelling for Bitton. Bitton signal box was destroyed in 1965, the one acquired for preservation came from Painswick Road in Gloucester. http://semaphore.avonvalleyrailway.org/html/frames.html http://www.midlandrailway-butterley.co.uk/signalboxes/operational.html Incorrect info, Bitton is a Midland Type 2B, sorry

Hi Neil Just a thought, I know you like sticking to the prototype, but......... I could not see the point of the cross over in the bay platform, surely any engine would not go through the goods shed. I've tweaked the plan, may give you an idea, maybe not As for the run round situation at Bodmin, don't forget that this is a preserved railway, that said, it is usually frowned upon to propel stock with passengers onboard, don't quote me but I think there are quite a few rules pertaining to this activity. In pre-preservation days at other country termini the engine release cross over was sometimes quite a way back from the buffers. The incoming train would most likely go to or within a few feet of the buffers where the passengers would disembark and then the doors closed by the guard. No passengers would be allowed to board the stationary train. The train would then be propelled back beyond the engine release, the engine would uncouple and perform the run round. Once coupled up again, the train would be propelled back to the buffers where the departing passengers would then be allowed to board. In preservation it is quite common for a lot of passengers to remain onboard for the return journey so the action of propelling said passengers like you witnessed seems a bit dubious to me.

You can see why elf & safety was need in industry. It is just a pity that it has been carried over and used in more mundane circumstances as an excuse to keep joe public in check where the application of common sense would suffice. But then again, a lot of people today have little common sense and no rational thinking towards their own wellbeing.

They have done a good job though Andy, it doesn't look a bodged job (no offence to you) bodged, of-fence, I'm digging myself a hole here if I'm not careful Its only frustrating when you know you could do a lot better. It is starting to look good out back, old garage gone, grass laid, conifers cut, fence up, just concrete base then ttthhhhuuuuuu bunker and you have still got your health intact, so it must be a bonus

Don't worry Andy, when you wake up you can have a look how to maintain that Marcway. The video has a bit of noise and a water mark, but is well worth watching especially the last bit about curves.

What they didn't tell you Andy is that they have been copying the pro's

0.07mm :jester:How do you sharpen those drills Mike