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Visio stencils

Free Visio stencils for rail telecoms design, drawn by Opstel. Drag the shapes onto your drawing; the cable, route and track lines stretch to length.

SLD pack

63 shapes for straight line diagrams, following the symbols used on current FTN/FTNx SLD legends: core and access nodes (with GSM-R co-located), buildings (SB, ECR, RR, REB), cabinets, copper, fibre and screening conductor joints, sheath gap, manholes, LOCs, SPTs, earth farm, signals, crossings, bridges, tunnels, mile posts, mileage diamonds, cable lines (PE armoured, LSZH, DISAF 432F, 48F spur, existing), route lines and track. Shapes named “Extra – …” are Opstel additions not found on the legends we checked (utilities, chainage, cable pull, continuation arrows).

Visio .vssx · works in Visio 2013 and later · Tip: on Visio's dark theme the line shapes are hard to see in the shapes panel. File → Options → General → Office Theme → White fixes it.

SLD pack shapes, sheet 1SLD pack shapes, sheet 2SLD pack shapes, sheet 3

Free to use on your own designs. Legends differ between projects: always use the legend and drawing standards your client or project sets, and colour by status (e.g. black existing, red new).