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With the tide coming in, it was tricky to get a decent image with the waves of the incoming tide, but was so interesting and full of life that it was worth it.
Aggregating anemone - the most abundant species of anemone found on rocky, intertidal shores along the Pacific coast. The anemone is a voracious feeder that eats almost anything that passes by. Stinging cells (nematocysts) on their tentacles paralyze small prey. It can even ingest small crabs and spew out the shells. If they're buried by drifting sand, they can survive for more than three months.
Mossy chiton - found in the middle and lower intertidal zone on exposed rocky shores on the Pacific coast. The can grow to 9cm (3.5in), but are usually found around 3 - 4cm (1.2 - 1.6in). This one was at least 7.6cm (3in), on the larger side. They can be found clinging to rocks by their broad flat foot which it also uses to move about. If they are displaced, they roll into balls in order to protect their soft insides. The inside of their shells are a beautiful turquoise.
Maryland Midland operates a unit train transporting aggregate stone for S.W. Barrick & Sons. Barrick operates a large quarry near Woodsboro on the former Pennsy line that once operated between York, PA, and Frederick, MD. This train is destined to Barrick's construction materials distribution yard at Finksburg located along what was once part of the old Western Maryland Railway main line west of Baltimore.
Not the greatest light, but here the crew is just leaving the quarry for their turnaround trip to Finksburg.
Bombus lucorum aggregate
a worker on Cirsium vulgare, the spear thistle.
Happy Beautiful Bumble Bum Thursday!
this thistle is growing out of the top of the patio wall. I have come close to killing this plant a couple of times but now glad I left it to flower instead. A weed is only a weed if it is unwanted!
The Members - Working Girl
Aggregate Industries 59005 heads 6V18 11:20 Allington A.R.C. Sdg. to Whatley Quarry through Slough on 29th Sept, 2015.
Double headed 59s on 7A09 doesn't happen very often so commiserations to Wetbag who is just out of shot on the left with a pole and was thoroughly bowled by 802019 working as 1C74, the 09:04 Paddington - Newquay.
59203 and 59101 Village of Whatley climb to Savernake at Wootton Rivers with 7A09, the 07:12 Merehead - Acton
An earlier Spring outing for GBRf's striking addition 69004 is seen with chum 69003 ensuring train delivery upon reaching Addlestone Junction with 4Y19 gypsum empty boxes following tightly behind the Newhaven aggregates.
20th April 2022
Here we see GBRf locomotive 66713 crossing Twemlow Viaduct in Holmes Chapel, Cheshire on the evening of the 25/7/23 with 6G89 from Hindlow to Hams Hall.
**Please note this image was captured with a DJI Mini 3 Pro drone**
HS2 / GBRf branded 66796 “The Green Progressor” slogs up the bank from Great Rocks Junction with 6G89 15:47 Hillhead Quarry - Hams Hall loaded JNA box wagons.
This was the first train to depart the newly opened Hillhead facility, near Brierlow Bar, having been closed since the mid 1970’s.
June 2023.
Nice to have a special on the biomass, GBRf Aggregates Industries 66711 'Sense' powers through Moore about 30 seconds after the sun went in working a retimed 6E24 Liverpool Bimass Terminal - Drax AES.
Colas Rail Freight Class 56s double head 4Z89 the 16:02 BNFL Drigg to Carlisle Kingmoor Yard empty stone train at Nethertown on the Cumbrian coast railway line.
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.
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.
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).
In July 2019 GBRf ousthopped 66747 in the livery of Sheffield based Newell & Wright Transport. With a container depot in Masborough they provide a haulage and container logistics service.
In appreciation of the contribution made by aggregate and construction companies to keep the UK moving, GBRf painted one of its newly imported class 66 locomotives, 66793, into the 'hertiage' livery of British Rail Railfreight Construction during March 2021.
The pair are seen at Tonbridge West Yard, alongside 73963 and 73961 on 24/04/21
GBRf Aggregate Industries liveried 66711 'Sence' passes Ashwell Gatehouse ,Rutland working the 11:22 Church Yard Castle Cement to Ketton empties.
Aggregating Anemones, Anthopleura elegantissima (as corrected below), on the side of a large rock,
North Point,
Morro Strand State Beach,
Morro Bay, California
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.
BR Blue Cromptons 33027 and 33029 pass Lewisham with aggregates empties for Angerstein Wharf in June 1990
GB Railfreight 66791 sets back into the Dove Holes Cemex complex for loading, the train having just arrived on 6H10 Bletchley Cemex - Peak Forrest. DRS 66432 and 37716, both on hire to Victa Rail for shunting duties can also both be seen in the background resting in between turns.
Only 20 or so minutes since capturing 791 earlier, I made the short drive to Peak Forrest for a second bite at the cherry. Perfectly timed, the train was already reversing as I drove over the bridge and parked the car. I've not visited Peak Forrest in quite some time so it was nice to call in whilst I was in the area and capture something.
Dove Holes | 23.09.22
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
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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GB Railfreight Class 66 diesel locomotive 66722 "Sir Edward Watkin" approaches Small Heath station forming service 6G99 Tunstead Sidings to Banbury Reservoir Redland Aggregates.
DB Cargo class 66/0 No. 107 trundles It's 21 DOA bogie hoppers (aggregate) as 6L43 0845 Mountsorrel Sdgs. to Kennett Redland Sdgs. across the "East Anglia Delta" (Ouse Washes) at Pymoor in a fine burst of welcome sunlight.
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!
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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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.
GBRf Cemex liveried 66780 passes Kangaroo Spinney,Wellingborough on the 12:18 Colnbrook to Bardon Hill empty aggregates.
DB Schenker 66053 passes Harrowden Jct. Wellingborough with the 21:44 Moreton on Lugg to Radlett aggregates as a East Midland Trains HST heads north on the 08:15 London St. Pancras to Nottingham.
DCRs 60029 'Ben Nevis' passes Harts Drove crossing,Whittlesea with 6Z28 05.33 Tunstead sidings - Brandon down sidings loaded aggregates on 25/11/21.
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
G512 & G515 round the curve at Albion Junction. I spent many afternoons growing up on and around this bridge seeing the combos on the then Pacific National run Apex. This train would fail at Jacana Loop and would require assistance in getting to Kilmore East. 14/6/2026
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.
GBRf London Underground Map liveried 66721 'Harry Beck' passes Harrowden Junction on the early running 14:50 Mountsorrel to Wellingborough Up Yard aggregates.
The Class 66 had not long arrived, light engine from Wembley, after reversing at Harlow Mill.
Just to the left of the sidings, is the West Anglia Mainline, running from London Liverpool Street to Cambridge & Kings Lynn. The line branching off to the far left goes to Hertford East. A Class 379 Electrostar can be seen travelling northwards, with a service from Liverpool St to Cambridge.
The huge Warehouse on the left is Sainsburys Rye House Distribution Centre, whilst on the far right is Poundlands Warehouse.
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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