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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!
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.
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.
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
The driver of DB Shed 66109 acknowledges the signalman at Pontrilas working a train of empty aggregate old PGA hopper wagons, destined for the quarry at Moreton on Lugg orginating from Acton (4B35).
Having positioned myself for a clear view of the freight coming through the station, I was scuppered by the arrival of the TPE service with little time to reposition. GBRf Class 66/7 No. 66781 runs through Manchester Victoria station working 6J56, the 09:54 Peak Forest Cemex – Hope Street loaded aggregate on 6th November 2024.
Aggregates liveried 66711 'Sence' comes under the road bridge at a very wet Stowmarket in charge of 4E20, the 13.21 from Felixstowe South FLT to Masborough.
Aggregate Industries 59 002 'Alan J Day' rumbles through West Ealing. Having seen Orange and Black 59 202 earlier on coming in the opposite direction I was hoping that it might have turned around at Acton Yard and come back on this working as it had worked it the day before!
Mixed pairing 59005 and 66510 powerfully tread the curvatures at the approach to the Crofton pumping station 6A50 Whatley Quarry-Hanwell Bridge Loop aggregates.
2nd May 2025
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.
GBRf Aggregate Industries liveried 66711 'Sence' passes Ashwell Gatehouse ,Rutland working the 11:22 Church Yard Castle Cement to Ketton empties.
Ichnofossils of mammals in aggregate concretion located in the Holocene period, West Ridge lagerstaaten. In a few million years these may even be valuable.
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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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.
68003 'Astute' is seen leading 6C15 Drigg-Shap Summit empty aggregate south at approaching Millom - 06/02/2025
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GBRf Class 66 No 66788 'Locomotion 15' eases out of the sidings at Peak Forest working 6E51, the 12.21 Peak Forest Cemex - Selby loaded aggregate.
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
Aggregate Industries livery 59001 "Yeoman Endeavour" passes Kensington Olympia on 6v18 1120 Allington A.R.C. SDG. - Whatley Quarry,photographed on 25/05/2017
The new WHA aggregate wagons being used for grain at Fremantle on 27 December 1985. The WHA wagons were used for hauling aggregates from Chris Hill in the Avon Valley. It was a joint venture involving Westrail and Quarry Industries. The wagons ultimately ended up on the Loongana limestone trains to Parkeston. Photo: Phil Melling.
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 Cargo 66076 passes Wellingborough's Finedon Rd. Yard on the 21:00 Moreton on Lugg to Radlett aggregates.
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.
Aggregate Industries livery 59001 'Yeoman Endeavour' works 6V09 13.41 Chichester-Merehead past Norton Bavant on 06/03/24.
13.11.2021.
DB Cargo liveried Class 66 No 66100 'Armistice 100 1918-2018' passes Chesterfield with the 12.10 Walsall Freight Terminal - Dowlow Briggs Sidings aggregate empties.
A slightly different view of the Kennet and Avon at Crofton with the canal drained for maintenance. In the background, at the lock by the engine house, work is being undertaken to install a new water main pipe, and I believe, new pumps with the canal closed until March.
66087 passes with 6M78, the 07:07 Tytherington - Quainton Railhead with aggregate for the HS2 project
Taken with the aid of a pole.
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 branded GM Type 5 59102 'Village of Chantry' had charge for the 6A74 Whatley to Theale aggregates service recorded at Westbury.
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Chiltern Rail liveried 68014 comes off the freight line at Stenson working 6U77 13:42 Mountsorrel Sidings-Crewe Basford Hall S.S.N is seen passing DB Cargo 60020 'The Willows' with the late running 6E54 10:34 Kingsbury Oil Sidings-Humber Oil Refinery. 06/03/2018.
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.
66711 "Sence", in Aggregate Industry livery, works Saturday's 6G64 loaded biomass, Liverpool Bulk Terminal to Ironbridge Power Station, down the branch through Oilhouse Coppice, Coalbrookdale, on the approach to its destination. 18.7.15
aggregate beginning to be spread and tampered. one bag doesn't go very far so from thinking i'd bought too much aggregate i'm wondering if i've bought enough! by the end of the day i'll know ...
sand will be spread and tampered on top of the aggregate
in the black sacks at the end of the garden are broken roofing tiles, which had been used to edge the plan of the garden at an earlier stage flic.kr/p/2mv7MWE i'm going to break them up more then lay and tamper them at the top end of the garden path before the aggregate goes down on top as the trench is deeper than required
the broken bench moved to the back of the garden for the cats
the dwarf fushia in the centre bed is still in its pot and only placed. it may/may not be its eventual position. i had it in a hanging basket ...
ps spot tiddy one of the garden cats
for many years my garden was a shrubbery flic.kr/p/Lhv9ag which i loved. a picket fence covered in an ivy hedge coming down in a storm flic.kr/p/2gnCyih meant that over time changes had to happen flic.kr/p/2mn2x8a i'll be glad when the trellis is covered in honeysuckle and jasmine. that's the plan ...
www.flickr.com/groups/gardening_is_my_hobby/ helpful for ideas. thank you for sharing
Aggregate Industries liveried 59001 'Yeoman Endeavor' passes through Reading working the 1526 Acton T.C. to Merehead Quarry.
TT110 (with TT103 at the rear) lead 1225 empty aggregate train from Rooty Hill to Lynwood Quarry through a wet and miserable Exeter.
(28/3/25)
A new aggregate flow has commenced in connection with construction work for HS2. GBRf No. 66713 'Forest City' has just passed the site of the long closed Sutton Park station as it works through Sutton Coldfield on 31st August 2020 with 6G99 0539 Dowlow Hindlow GBRf - Washwood Heath RMC GBRf in tow. Copyright Photograph John Whitehouse - all rights reserved