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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.
After spending the afternoon cycling short distances and sheltering under trees to cover freight trains, which never ran in the end due to the extreme heat, this working finally came good after a 7hr wait.
Here we see 66119 still in EWS livery working the 17:45 aggregate service (6V71) from Hardendale to Margam TC on the evening of the 18/7/22.
A rather well work stained Freightliner 66613 approaches Harrowden Jct. Wellingborough working the 14:10 Marks Tey Tarmac to Tunstead Sdgs empty aggregates.
59204 hurries the 6O68 Westbury Tarmac to Crawley loaded limestone boxes along the Coastway route, pictured at Church foot crossing between Emsworth and Southbourne on a bright but chilly late November day. Note the new front end lighting banks that highlight the lemon yellow loco ends compared with the more usual warmer yellow applied to rolling stock.
The frequency of this service has sharply declined of late, running once or twice a week compared with 4 days a week when first introduced. The Chichester stone has not run for weeks again and the 6O40 / 6V57 Ardingly stone routed along the Coastway is also a very fickle runner, running once this week.
Image dated Wednesday 26 November 2025
P16-N461 leads #9509 down empty SSR test Apex aggregate train (9 wagons) from Westall to Tottenham Yard for stabling, crawls through Sth Kensington, taken on Thursday 6th Augus, 2026.
One of many GBRf Class 66s in special liveries, 66711 Sense can be distinguished from the similar Class 59/0s which also wear Aggregate Industries livery by the yellow nameplate and different front end configuration. The attractive General Motors loco slows for Trowse Junction while working 6P41 0957 Harwich Refinery Crls Slvs to North Walsham Gbrf.
CLP13/ CLF3 are on 2280 loaded aggregate train heading towards Sydney and approaching Tallong Railway Station on 17 September 2025. Photo: Phil Melling.
'Coastway' stone working. 59204 approaching Havant with loaded stone train 6O68 0911 Westbury Tarmac to Crawley Freight Yard. With the changes to the Mendip stone train schedules, caused mainly by FLHH no longer using Acton Yard, the 'Coastway' route now has a quite regular freight east of Chichester.
Crossing over the Gowanbrae viaduct, G526 & G532 rumble south with 9332 loaded aggregate. This train stabled at North Dynon instead of heading into the Hanson Brooklyn concrete plant. G526 is on lease from Pacific National to QUBE. 18/7/2026
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.
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.
Aggregate Industries/GBRf livery 66711 named "Sence" is captured in the evening sun working 4F23 Ironbridge Power Station-Liverpool Bulk Terminal biomass empties.
The Immelborn aggregates loading point with DR Class 44 'Jumbo' 44 1486 moving to position itself on the front of Class 52.80 'Rekolok' 52 8079 at the head of the loaded 2,000-tonne gravel train for Eisenach yard on 11th October 2007, during the annual Werratal 'Plandampf'.
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The familiar view taken 10/23 at Wimbledon West Jn follows an earlier 'new approach' one (see below) of the popular DC Rail 6015 aggregates to Chessington worked by Class56s 56091 and 56301.
The graffitied building reluctantly included in shot!
3rd October 2023
Aggregate Industries liveried 59001 'Yeoman Endeavor' passes through Reading working the 1526 Acton T.C. to Merehead Quarry.
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.
Another special liveried locomotive and despite the sun being side on, it would have been rude not to have taken a picture. Here we see GBRF celebrity locomotive 66789 sporting the BR livery working the loaded 17:14 aggregate service from Mountsorrel to Whitemoor Yard, which was captured in Cossington on the evening of the 19/4/21.
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
GBRf 66776 'Joanne' passes Cooks Lane,Kilby Bridge on the 12:18 Colnbrook to Bardon Hill empty aggregates.
An image from July 1988 taken at Warminster, where Cardiff Canton's Railfreight 56036 was hauling loaded PXAs forming the 6O89 MTTHO 06:45 Whatley Quarry to Woking aggregates service.
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The scene at Caldon Low Tarmac Quarry on a damp day back in February 1985, where BR Sulzer Type 2 25119 was about to depart for Leekbrook Junction and beyond with a train of assorted wagons loaded with limestone aggregates bound for Witton, Birmingham.
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Aggregate Industries 59004 comes over Carpenters road curve with the Bow ECCQ Private sidings to Acton TC empty hoppers.To traffic in May 1986 so now in its 31st year.
DB Cargo Class 66/0 No. 66151 threads its way through Edale on the Hope Valley line with 6Z89, the 11:49 Peak Forest Cemex – Peterborough West Yard loaded aggregate working on 6th January 2019.
On an early Spring morning 60 028 winds its way past Hungerford Common at the head of 6Z52, the 07:04 Tytherington - Quainton Railhead with aggregate for the HS2 project
Taken with the aid of a pole
After a gruelling 18 mile cycle ride in the midday heat to reach this spot, on what was the hottest day of the year - here we see DRS locomotives 66403 (front) and 66423 (rear) pass through Norton Bridge at Searchlight Lane Jn with 6U76 from Mountsorrel to Basford Hall on the afternoon of the 17/6/22.
The early evening of Wednesday 12th May 2021. Not really the loco’s you expect to see up at Peak Forest! DB’s 60074 ‘Luke’ in Puma Energy Grey trudges along the Down Goods on its way to Buxton Reversing Sidings with the 6M66 1710 Toton Centre to Dowlow Briggs Sdgs partially loaded aggregates, passing GBRf’s silent 66746, sitting at the head of a rake of HYA stone hoppers. DRS’s 66423 it powered up and chirping away to itself, although not actually attached to the Scotsman loco. In the distance 66427 is easing a rake of MMA box wagons back through the auto-loader.
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