The track mode Kilometrage (X, under More) puts a point of the km where a track is clicked: the line, the km and, at a jump,
the km on from it. The axis of a line follows the main paths of the switches through the tracks of its points; on a
double-track line it runs between the tracks, and where they part on formations of their own and come together again it
runs along the longer one, the shorter one going by its own length with its last hectometre before they meet taking up
the difference (PKP GK-1 6.1.12). The km between the points are stretched to the length of the scenery evenly; the panel
lists the points with the stretch, the 3D view shows the axis, a tick at each hectometre, the points with their km and
the km of the lines by the mouse. Read the km from the posts turns the hectometre posts along the line into the points
of its km, a jump where two runs of numbers meet, and warns of a jump on a curve or at a station (Id-1 § 19). Each change
is a step of undo.
The station keeps its km and the direction of its numbering in its record. The block signals are named after their km, odd on track 1 and even on track 2, the sections after the signals at their ends, and each signal gets the control of its section.
Bridged stretches less than 5 m apart are merged into one bridge on its piers, and those shorter than 3 m, a ditch or a
culvert under the embankment, are no bridge. A bridge end within 1 m of a joint of the route or a break of the line moves to
it, so the cut leaves no sliver of a path by the abutment. Against the OpenStreetMap railway bridges the marked share stays
the same (lk91 60 of 66, TG 90 of 104); the places with nothing under them in the map fall from 6 to 4 on lk91 and from 18
to 12 on TG, and the bridge paths shorter than 1 m from 9 to 0 and from 11 to 1.
Where the terrain model falls away under a fitted line by the abutments, the paths are cut off at the ends of the stretch as the line is applied and set to the bridge, in the same step of the history: they sound as on a bridge, get no formation and the terrain under them stays as the model has it, also after the scenery is saved and opened again. Tunnels and tracks set to the bridge already are left as they are. The status says how many paths went on a bridge.
A switch may lie on a concave vertical curve, and on a convex one no sharper than 2000 m (Dz.U. 2026 poz. 1225 § 58 ust. 16): the fit bends over the switches and their shared timbers where the ground does, a curve on a switch is a warning, and only a sharper convex one an error. A sharp crest of a hump keeps its curve off the switch zones. The zone of a crossing reaches only as far as the path crossed has rails, so the middle of a double slip keeps to itself.
A line runs through a switch along its main path, and through the quarters of a double slip straight on, so the long lines go through the slips and the connections between them are fitted after. Rails of the lines fitted already nearer than a sleeper is long are taken at their height, as both lie on the same timbers. A short line between two lines whose end grades can't be joined within the norms keeps only the heights of its ends, and the grade breaks at the joints. The norms speed of a line is the one most of its length is laid for, so a few tracks set much faster don't stiffen the curves of all of it.
The fault finder leaves out the places over the terrain model on a bridge or a viaduct, the ground falling away under them by the abutments. A formation modifier may be open at its start or end.
Laid to the norms, the readout says the design speed of the transition curves and of the cant: that of the track the laying goes on from or joins, or the one set for the laying. A new option takes the set speed also on from a track with its own, the new tracks get it; Ctrl+Shift+wheel steps it while laying and turns the option on. The panel shows the speed the laying under way is designed for.
A track laid on from a free end in the PKP PLK laying, by a drag out of the end, by clicks from it or laid back onto it, starts from the curvature and the cant the end has. An arc turning the same way as the end is a compound curve: a transition of the norms ramps the curvature and the cant from the one arc into the other. From a straight the arc gets its entry transition, the arc then straight its exit one. Where the way is too short the transitions are cut and the cant lowered to what they ramp, and the readout says so; with no room at all the track is laid as before and the note says why. The curves traced on the orthophoto and the recommended values of a compound curve get the transitions between their arcs too. The free laying stays as it was.
The free laying isn't the default any more. The first time a session opens the laying or the plan, a window asks how the
new tracks are laid, with the two cards of the panels (the norms marked as chosen); a click on one of them takes it and
closes the window, which comes before the offer of the terrain model of a new scenery. "Remember the choice, don't ask
again" keeps it in eu07_editor.ini (track_norms ask, free or plk), and a choice kept follows a later click on the cards of
the panels; the settings of the editor (General) choose between asking and either way. The self-test scripts start with the
free laying, as they were written for it.
M in any tab of the track mode turns the tape on: a click puts its start, the next one its end, at a free end, on the axis
of the track under the cursor or else on the ground. The readout at the cursor gives the distance in plan and in space,
the difference of height and the grade between them and the azimuth, while the second point follows the cursor and once
it's put; a further click starts a new measure, M or Esc puts the tape away. Self-test command tape.
