Glynoch and Rathmor are two islands situated in the Atlantic west of Cornwall and south of Ireland. Rathmor is rich in minerals, Glynoch is more farmlands. Narrow gauge railways cris-crossed these islands with goods and tourists from the port of Llanchala.
Feòrag is the first module constructed representing the railways of the Glynoch & Rathmor Railway Ltd.
Feòrag is the place to come for the Gwydion Falls and the Cailleach River with stunning views down the Glen Feroag valley back towards the coast. The valley is full of wildlife, including the island favourite, the Red Squirrel, or the Feòrag Ruadh as it was called by early inhabitants. Mineral trains would wind their way down to the coast and tourists would disembark on their wilderness adventures. A newer line to the coast has recently been opened from Feòrag now that the new Glen Feorag Viaduct has opened, saving considerable time and an easier gradient. The older route still exists and serves a valuable purpose for the smaller communities along the route, as well as valuable added capacity during the summer months and of course during the Grouse Hunt season!
As part of the Dartmoor 009 group the layout is designed to be included with our module system allowing for a much larger system for running and exhibiting trains. So far Feòrag has been part of a large modular exhibition at the Bluebell Railway in June 2024 and at the Great Electric Train Show in October 2024. It made it's first outing as a stand alone layout in November 2024 at the 009 Society open day in Newton Abbot and will be at Exeter in June 2025 and Taunton RailEx in October 2025.
Rolling stock is mainly RTR but I am getting to grips with various 3D printed kits and now being the proud custodian of a 3D printer I am developing my design skills to hopefully start producing my own wagons/carriages and maybe locos as well as buildings and other scenic features.
Future modules will all be included on this thread and will likely include the main harbour town of Llanchala and an as yet un-named 'winter' module that will be all covered in snow! Each module will be able to connect to each other and into the wider Dartmoor group modules system , or operated independently, giving the most flexible options for exhibiting and personal operational variety!
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A couple of early construction photos...
The backscene was a fun project in its own right. I used AI image creation service called DALL-E to turn text descriptions into images, blending each image together to give the final look. Once complete it was printed by a friend onto a sheet of vinyl and applied to the plywood backboard. To avoid cutting the vinyl in future I will make each backscene removable and simple unroll it and clamp it in place for each event.
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A few more pictures from the exhibition outings in 2024. More can be seen on the Facebook page 'Glynoch and Rathmor 009'
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erm.. I can't see the photos?
*well I can but only by selecting "quote" then copying the image URLs into a blank browser tab...
Quote from: Hugh Norwood on January 21, 2025, 10:54erm.. I can't see the photos?
*well I can but only by selecting "quote" then copying the image URLs into a blank browser tab...
Interesting. They are all there for me.
Ah! found out why
I have set my security to "Strict" to prevent tracking (among other things) I'll see if I can fix it.
Ah - done! I have to set security back to normal.
{It appears the image hosting site you use is puttin social media trackers on the viewers' browsers...}
P.S. great pictures, though!
Thanks Hugh,
I simply copied a few picture URLs from my Facebook page. Maybe I will look at other places to hold the pictures. i have a OneDrive account so I think I can share photos directly from there in the future.
Quote from: Chris Odell on January 22, 2025, 14:39Thanks Hugh,
I simply copied a few picture URLs from my Facebook page. Maybe I will look at other places to hold the pictures. i have a OneDrive account so I think I can share photos directly from there in the future.
I had wondered about using my OneDrive space, but instead opted for Flickr which I use only for photos intended for public access. I'd rather not advertise where I keep backups etc. no matter how much the provider claims it is safe. The free version of Flickr will hold more than enough photos for me.
Also Flickr is specifically for photos and handles things like automatic resizing and the ability to link to different resolutions of the same photo as well as being the sort of host where people (and applications) expect to see photos. There is quite a lot of narrow gauge and 009 there from other people.
Edit: it seems to block searches from here, so here is the main page:
https://www.flickr.com/ (https://www.flickr.com/)
https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=009+narrow+gauge (http://[url="https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=009+narrow+gauge%5C")] https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=009+narrow+gauge (https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=009+narrow+gauge)[/url]
Quote from: Chris Odell on January 22, 2025, 14:39Thanks Hugh,
I simply copied a few picture URLs from my Facebook page. Maybe I will look at other places to hold the pictures. i have a OneDrive account so I think I can share photos directly from there in the future.
It's not a big issue.
(I use imgur for hosting images (I scale them down to around 800 to 1000 pixels on the long side first because that's ample for viewing ina web browser and saves space) as they are still free to use)
If you image size itself is less than 300kB (which for a JPG gives excelent quality for on-line viewing) then you can upload them directly into your posts here - so longs as you limit yourself to 300kB per post. If you look at the reports I post on behalf of the Oldham group you can see for yourself.
but - as I said it's not a big issue - I know what to do now!