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Aggregate Industries liveried (GB Railfreight) 66711 'Sence' drags Ex-Greater Anglia EMUs 317670 and 317505 past Waterbeach, working the 5Q35 0835 Ely Papworth Sidings to Newport Docks (Simsgroup). Both these units arrived at Papworth for storage on 18th December 2020, the units seen again here being dragged to Newport for scrapping.
Aggregate Industries, a US based company, operate the Topley Pike Quarry under the Bardon Aggregates banner. A climb to the top of the hill at the end of Deep Dale yielded this overview of the crushing and processing plant. The quarry lies to the rear left and appears to have few reserves left.
For this week's theme on Macro Mondays, which was... Less Than An Inch.
A so called berry (well, the raspberry), which is not a berry (but an aggregated stone fruit, according to my botany classes at university - the USEFUL stuff they teach you....), amongst seedless grapes...which, ironically, are berries (again, according to the botanists).
Nice colour contrast between the different, well, berries, and since the grape was less than a cm in diameter, the entire frame should definitely be... less than an inch.
And its food. Who's to argue with that....
Finally I made it.... :))
HMM!
Here we see GBRF locomotive 66761 passing Mill Meece in Staffordshire on the WCML during the afternoon of the 20/7/21 with 6H33 from Small Heath Lafarge to Hindlow (Buxton).
GBRf Aggregate Industries liveried 66711 'Sence' passes Ashwell Gatehouse ,Rutland working the 11:22 Church Yard Castle Cement to Ketton empties.
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 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"
With the recent acquisition of the former Scottish Coal owned Ravenstruther Coal Loading terminal by Cloburn Aggregate Ltd the first loaded train ran on Friday 3rd December. 56 113 stands in Kingmoor Yard the following morning with 6K30 10.09 ex Ravenstruther Stone Terminal loaded with red granite. I assume this will form Monday's 12.01 to Pinnox Branch Sidings, Longport.
Ravenstruther makes a welcome return to the freight network having not seen a train since the collapse of the Scottish Coal Co. in April 2013. The rapid loading bunker at Ravenstruther was demolished a few year back but the horseshoe shaped sidings remained in situ mothballed. Stone is brought by road from Cloburn Quarry a short distance away to the South East of Lanark and loaded onto the railway from a pad where the rapid loader used to stand. The company leased the site from Hargreaves Ltd in 2020 who took on some of the residual assets of what was Scottish Coal but last month Cloburn bought the site outright. The same red granite was used by BR as track ballast 30 years ago and loading back then was carried out from a wall siding in Carstairs Down Yard.
Aggregating Anemones, Anthopleura elegantissima (as corrected below), on the side of a large rock,
North Point,
Morro Strand State Beach,
Morro Bay, California
BR Blue Cromptons 33027 and 33029 pass Lewisham with aggregates empties for Angerstein Wharf in June 1990
Heavy Haul Rail 70002 approaches Harrowden Jct. Wellingborough with the 6H46 16:45 Limbury Road to Dowlow Quarry Fhh empty aggregates.
68003 'Astute' is seen leading 6C15 Drigg-Shap Summit empty aggregate south at approaching Millom - 06/02/2025
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68017 'Hornet' is seen leading a late 6C15 Drigg-Shap via Carnforth empty aggregate south at Kirk Santon - 27/02/2025
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Snaking across 3 tracks to access the Kilmore East Quarry, 9341 with VL353, VL351, G512 & G515 finally arrives at its destination. This train encountered loco issues at Jacana loop requiring the two VL's to come rescue the train. 14/6/2026
Freightliner 66605 is approaching Desborough working the 12:51 Radlett to East Usk Yard empty aggregates.
Now in Aggregates livery and named 'Sence' GBRFs 66711 seen working 6Z71 Harrow on the hill to Wellingborough Yard at Kangaroo Spinney, Wellingborough on 30/3/13.
DR Class 52.80 'Rekolok' 2-10-0s Nos.52 8154 and 52 8075 (with 52 8079 banking), slog up the grade away from Oberrohn at sunset with a heavy sand train of over 2,000 tonnes trailing load on 1st November 2008. The finale to the 2008 Werratal 'Plandampf'.
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There is a fair amount of stone on the move through Wahwood Heath on 14th June 2021, as GBRf Class 66 No. 66778 'Darius Cheskin' passes the new Tarmac facility while heading 6G92 0814 Hindlow - Small Heath Larfarge. Meanwhile, in the Tarmac facility is Freightliner Class 66 No. 66623, which is in the process of easing 6Z53 0600 ex - Moreton-on-Lugg through the discharge point. Copyright Photograph John Whitehouse - all rights reserved
One from the hard drive. Before the aggregate business took off for the P&W in the New York market, the P&W would make two trips to Queens a week. Usually Friday night with a 30 car train for Prima Asphalt, occasionally with a cut of ballast if the LIRR had any major track project going on, with the return on Saturday light engine or with a short cut of empties. On Tuesday nights another light engine move would head for Queens to retrieve the now empty 30 car train for a Wednesday return to the Tilcon quarry at Reeds Gap. The Wednesday train ran the length of the New Haven Line in daylight, and owning a night job at the time I took advantage of shooting a freight in daylight under the wire. So much has changed.....a pair of orange a brown B39-8's leading the train, the old floating span catenary and running in daylight, a regular move back then. Increased passenger train frequency along with a huge increase of tonnage moved these jobs to night runs on both sides of the job. I was always surprised on how these runs were overlooked by the railfan community at the time.
Aggregate Industries liveried (GB Railfreight) 66711 'Sence' is seen at Lewes with the 6Y26 1049 Newhaven Marine Aggs Gbrf to Woking Down Yard working.
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GBRf's 66711 'Sence', complete with Aggregate Industries blue, green & silver livery, heads onto the Hope Valley line proper as it nears the end of its journey on 6H33, Small Heath cement works to Dowlow quarry.
A glorious evening again, and nice to get out to see 711 for the first time. I had hoped to get the Freightliner jumbo heading the other way into the sunset, but a late running EMR service to Lime Street set that back by 20 minutes, and the light went. One for next week, perhaps.
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Driver Chris Guntripp opens up class 56 no's 56091 & 56301, and they sounded superb, from a signal check at Wimbledon West Junction with the rather infrequent 6O15 1201 Willesden DC Rail Sidings to Chessington South aggregates train.
On a hot, late summer evening at the foot crossing by Beech Grove Lock, near Crofton, one of the ex ARC batch of Class 59s, 59103 Village of Mells is in charge of 7C64, the 15:24 Acton - Merehead empties
CLP13/ CLF3 are on 2280 loaded aggregate train heading towards Sydney and approaching Tallong Railway Station on 17 September 2025. Photo: Phil Melling.
Lugging its aggregate wagons out of the Kirkstall Forge Down Loop, Biffa-liveried 66783 continues its run from Hunslet Tilcon to Arcow Quarry, the River Aire on its right.
Aggregate Industries livery 59001 "Yeoman Endeavour" passes Kensington Olympia on 6v18 1120 Allington A.R.C. SDG. - Whatley Quarry,photographed on 25/05/2017
Aggregates to the fore at Chichester with understandable enthusiastic use of horns as Hanson Aggs Cl59/1 59103 6068 to Crawley overhauls a not too dusty FL 66/5 66554 6052 its train in the process of unloading.
8th May 2024
DB Cargo 66076 passes Wellingborough's Finedon Rd. Yard on the 21:00 Moreton on Lugg to Radlett aggregates.
DB Cargo 66021 approaches Harrowden Jct. working the 06:36 Mountsorrel Sdgs to Radlett Redland Roadstone aggregates.
Freightliner Heavyhaul 66607 heads south at Souldrop with 18 loaded JGA hoppers forming the 6M17 10:20 Croft to Neasden aggregates service.
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Hanson Aggregates 59004 'Paul A Hammond' descends Savernake and passes Wolfhall Farm working 7A17 Merehead Quarry to Acton T.C. loaded stone on 14 July 2021.
DB Schenker's EWS liveried 66183 heads under the bridge at Brantham with 6V07 1200 Ipswich Griffin Wharf to Theale Foster Yeoman loaded aggregate hoppers.This has been an erratic runner of late so glad it ran today even though it was running a bit behind time.
On the hottest day of the year and a new location which is passed frequently on the cycle trips to Cumbria, here we see Freightliner locomotive 66616 working the 11:05 aggregates service from Hardendale to Tunstead on the 19/7/22 (6H51)
Despite the efforts, this was the only train photographed in Cumbria on the day in question due to major service disruption and this part of the WCML being shut from 14:00hrs onwards due to OLE damage. The majority of the day was spent under a tree going nowhere fast monitoring the track-maps and RTT.