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The southbound aggregates train for Sioux City, IA is departing Hawarden, IA after switching the yard with 108 cars. The train will continue to Chatsworth, IA where it will be tied down until the crew out of Sioux City brings the empty train up and will swap out trains before returning south.
The Purley aggregates terminal hosts ARC's Class 59/1 59102 'Village of Chantry' upon a morning unrecorded duty.
One may ask should the original 1990 Amalgamated Roadstone Corp livery of mustard yellow and silver feature in a retro livery repaint? Never exactly one of my favourites should the trend continue.. .
To the right are Brett hoppers Cliffe Brett Marine-Salfords/Purley aggregates headed by 33202/025 out of shot and the purpose of an authorised visit.
1998
This is The Cell Aggregate Of Bio-Mecharoids.
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CAT 980M Wheel Loader (Aggregate Handler) on display in the show area at the Toromont Cat Dealership on corner of Jaguar Road and Riverside Drive in Mountjoy Township in the City of Timmins Northeastern Ontario Canada
A busy scene at Small Heath yard, Birmingham, looking from Small Heath road bridge. A DB aggregate train is being unloaded whilst GBRF class 66 No, 66308 reverses its train back into the sidings to be unloaded.
23rd July 26.
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A GP40-2 leads the charge on 94M, bringing 50 generously loaded aggregate cars east through Royersford.
Freightliner 'Shed' 66588 runs the gauntlet of Friday night passengers and station staff as it rumbles slowly through Reading's platform 8 with the 6.34pm Churchyard Sidings - Whatley Quarry discharged aggregate hoppers (6V51).
Most freight is scheduled to run through platforms 12 and 13 (and, occasionally, 15) but keeping an eye on the virtual signal diagram while staying close to the footbridge can pay dividends for those last minute platform changes - as happened here.
In what is now a mostly rebuilt station, I do like the way the main legacy building has been retained and incorporated into the new structure - a comforting link to the station's heritage. Note too the homage to the station's previous name, Reading General, on the large-scale totem at right. Have to say I thought the 'General' name was given to the station much earlier during Great Western Railway ownership rather than post the 1948 nationalisation, but I could be mistaken.
What isn't in doubt are the sheer numbers of passengers using the facility - some 17million in the year prior to Covid. And, while current numbers are still well down on that, catching a train for the 36 mile ride to London, even in the mid-morning off-peak period, can still be a sardine-like experience.
I also noted that the line at platform 8 is roughly where the through line was in the 1970s. This was where the daily joy could be experienced of a Western passing through the station at speed at the head of the Up "Cornish Riviera Ltd'. Heady days for diesel-hydraulic spotters and snappers alike!
For this image I've opted to not over-egg the lighting, but instead keep it similar to the levels it actually was.
Shot at 1/60s @ F7.1, and 8000asa
8.38pm, 13th October 2023
TT104 approaches Yanderra with empty Boral stone train 1297 bound for Peppertree Quarry for another load of aggregate.
From the 17th of August 2025, Southern Shorthaul Railroad will commence haulage of this service.
Wednesday 28th May 2025
Excerpt from the plaque:
HueScape by Art Aggregate: With HueScape we want to encourage viewers to engage with the piece as both individual objects and as an immersive space. By shifting vantage points we can focus on the work as a tunnel or view it as a porthole drawing our attention through to the environment beyond the structures.
The work is a marker with delineating lines that mark one’s presence in time and the presence of an act upon the wood.
TT111, with TT109 at the rear, power into Bowral as 2296N loaded stone train bound for Maldon.
Friday 16th August 2019
Aggregate Industries liveried (GB Railfreight) 66711 'Sence' and 66775 (F231) 'HMS Argyll' double head the 4L43 0600 Doncaster Iport Gbrf to Parkeston Ss Gbrf intermodal working past March.
SSR102 continues along the main line at Mittagong Junction with loaded aggregate train 2282 from Peppertree Quarry to Maldon.
The line to the right of frame is the original main line, now known as the “loop line” which was opened in 1867. The line features several steeper gradients up to 1 in 30 and many cuttings, which is why the line was rerouted and duplicated in 1919.
Today the loop line does not reach end to end, with the northern end opened currently from Picton to Buxton. Transport Heritage NSW are currently extending the operational part of the line to Colo Vale. Beyond Colo Vale to Braemar, it will be hard to imagine this section will reopen anytime soon due to a large bridge missing following flooding in 1987.
The Braemar to Mittagong Junction section has remained open this whole time because of industry in Braemar including wagon and locomotive construction in the 90s and more recently concrete sleepers, however all of that is now gone and a train has not operated for a few years. It’s a wonder the points haven’t been removed yet.
Monday 1st June 2026
Hot on the heels of fellow classmate CLP12, hired RailPower units CLP13 and CLF2 charge south away from Picton with empty aggregate train 2283 to Peppertree Quarry.
Tuesday 14th October 2025
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St John's Newfoundland
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This was the second train of the day at Cliffe.
For anyone not familiar with the location, it's near Gravesend, Kent and only a mile away from the Thames, with it's own jetty for Dredgers to deliver dredged aggregate. This is transported to the wash & grading plant by a conveyor.
This is the run round loop / reception siding. The loco runs around the train of empties and then propels it into the loading area, nine wagons on each of road four & five, as seen in the next image.
DB Cargo 66149 passes Wellingborough's Finedon Road Yard working the 06:56 Mountsorrel to Radlett aggregates.
DB Cargo 66004 approaches Wellingborough on the 14:26 Luton Cresent Rd. to Leicester Humberstone Rd. empty aggregates.
While enroute to Czech Republic, a short stop was made in Vrutky to photograph trains for a few hours. Here we see ZSSK locomotives 751035 (front), 751047 (middle) and 751118 (rear) round the curve in Vrutky with a cement working on the morning of the 7/7/18.
6H45 Banbury Reservoir Redland Aggregates to Tunstead Sdgs. Class 66 in Freightliner in Genesee and Wyoming livery seen here heading north with the emptys passing through Derby station.
14.12.2024
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Lower Silesia has perhaps the highest density of aggregate mines in Poland. It's a true haven for this raw material, and a large portion of the extraction sites are located along railway line No. 137, known as the "Podsudecka" (Sudete) line. One such location is the Byczeń Mineral Resources Mine, located near Paczków. The 401Da-467 works daily there, loading rail cars. In the photo, it's pushing a train of PKP Cargo wagons into the mine.
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Dolny Śląsk posiada chyba największe zagęszczenie kopalń kruszywa w całej Polsce. Jest istną ostoją tego surowca, a duża część miejsc wydobycia znajduję się wzdłuż linii kolejowej nr 137 znanej jako "Podsudecka". Jednym z takich miejsc jest Kopalnia Surowców Mineralnych Byczeń, która znajduję się koło Paczkowa. Na codzień przy załadunku wagonów pracuje tam 401Da-467. Na zdjęciu spycha skład wagonów PKP Cargo na kopalnie.
The machinery to the left of the locomotive is the washing and grading plant, for processing dredged sand and ballast.
68018 speeds past Millom signal box with 6C15 1000 Drigg BNF to Shap Summit Quarry empty aggregates working.
60099 'Ben More Assynt' crawls along the last few hundred yards of its journey to RMCs new discharge facility in Leeds as it works 6E17 Peak Forest - Stourton aggregates on 28th October 2002. (6x45 Scan)
First ever time at this location and a brand new spot for lineside photography at the time of taking this image.
Here we see SBB Cargo Re6/6 locomotives 620 016 (front) and 620 007 (rear) pass through Immensee with train 67788 from Bodio - Hüntwangen-Wil on the very hot evening of the 18/7/24 (special thanks to Julian for the train ID info).
The level crossing barriers are manually operated, by the ground shunter. Although this is an internal road, several trucks accumulate either side, it is a busy terminal.
The aggregate, which appeared to be small chippings is dropped in the discharge station, fed onto the conveyor an will be directed into the second clamp, seen on the right of the picture.
Freightliner Class 66 locomotive 66602
6G89 1224 Hindlow Quarry to Small Heath Lafarge Aggregates
Elford, Tamworth, Staffordshire
66705 is in the process of running round a partially discharged 6G88 which it has drawn out from the Lafarge siding passing 66788 which has arrived with 6G80 from Peak Forest with 66601 waiting patiently in Small Heath station with 6G67 from Tunstead.
On its first Berks and Hants visit since being recommissioned 60022 Ingleborough is paired with 60099 Ben More Assynt at the head of 6V95, the 10:08 Willesden - Merehead empties
Seen passing Crofton carrying The Crimson Rambler headboard after its repainting in Midland Railway style Crimson Lake livery
Can't believe I was the only photographer here for this, although there were plenty on Bridge 99
Taken with the aid of a pole
6M60 Whitemoor to Mountsorrel. Class 66s with 707 in GBRF livery leading and 711 in Aggregate industries livery tucked in behind head north running along side the ECML with a rake of wagons
Aggregate Industries (AI) liveried 59005 Kenneth J Painter leads similarly adorned 59001 Yeoman Endeavour through Parton's Corner with 7A17 10.24 Merehead to Acton working. Amongst the consist are a number of Bardon JGAs which appeared on the Mendip routes for a while around this time (July 2014) having been absent from these parts since the early 90s.
Recently of course 001 Yeoman Endeavour has lost the AI colours in favour of a retro Foster Yeoman look timed to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the class 59 introduction, yes these two venerable machines and their various classmates have been plying their trade at this very location since Halley's Comet last passed this way. And 005?, well she currently retains the colour scheme seen here but it's surely only a matter of time before Heavy Haul decide to "Paint 'er".
The field to the right of frame is lower west field of Monksham Farm. The land here has, since the 1400s, been (until recently) continuously farmed by generations of the MacDonald family and in all that time they have worked the land exclusively as an arable farm. Sadly the most recent MacDonald decendent, a gentleman of advanced years by the name of Noel decided on a misguided effort to askew centuries of accumulated agronomic knowledge and adopt a policy of livestock farming.
Noel MacDonald's ill-advised change of tack was a disaster for Monksham, the main problem being that he simply failed to grasp the number and mix of animals required to create an effective economy of scale, a fact clearly evidenced just prior to the sale of the properties and land to a large farming conglomerate in a telling headcount of Monksham's livestock;
A Cow
A Pig
A Duck
A Horse
A Dog
Some Chickens
(All together now...) "AI, AI, Oh"
66729 Passes Settle Junction with 6M31 09.53 Hunslet Tilcon to Arcow Quarry Aggregate empties on Tuesday 6th January 2026.
The builders bags of stone at Water Orton East Junction are slowly being consumed by the brambles, viewed through the engineers access gate as 66780 rolls by with 6V05 Bardon Hill to Coton Hill loaded aggregates.
Late travelling passengers on Leicester station's platform 3 are treated to a southbound freight while waiting on a train to Birmingham due a few minutes later.
The freight is the 8.17pm Mountsorrel Sidings - Radlett Redland Roadstone (6C33) loaded aggregates, hauled by DB Cargo Shed 66059. Despite the decent station lighting it still needed 10,000asa of horsepower to 'stop' it.
8.41pm, 23rd April 2018
Taken on 21 July 2018 and uploaded 15 January 2025.
Yasam Rose was a 'general cargo' ship, often moored on the river at Shorne Marshes, just down from Denton, Gravesend. It and its 'sister' ship, Polla Rose, would carry cargoes (aggregates ?) into London. Here, it is still moored at Shorne Marshes and rather larger ship, Polar Brasil, is passing, as it departs Tilbury Docks.
Yasam Rose was 58.3 metres in length, Polar Brasil 230 metres. Yasam Rose last reported sailing as Harper Trader and off Tanzania, Polar Brasil on the Panama Canal.
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