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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.
Less than a week before the winter solstice and even though it's only just past lunchtime the shadows are already beginning to encroach on the trackside.
Running some 2 hours late 59101 Village of Whatley is seen at Wolfhall heading 6Z16, the 10:18 Whatley - Appleford
05/09/22 Stenson Junction: GBRF Class 66 66711 in Bardon Aggregates livery leads a lightly loaded 4F62 East Midlands Gateway - Seaforth 'liner.
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 behind schedule Wiltshire departure has made today's 6002 Westbury-Woking Down Yd aggregates some 45min late reaching Basingstoke and seen here shortly thereafter passing Winchfield Cutting at 08.47 with Cl59/1 59104.
A good level of fresh Rhododendron blooms are now present and with odd patches still in bud the optimum displays are near.
14th May 2025
GBRf Class 66/7 No. 66707 'Sir Sam Fey' approaches Warwick on 6th December 2022, while heading 6G99 0642 Tunstead Sidings - Banbury Reservoir Tarmac loaded aggregate working. Copyright Photograph John Whitehouse - all rights reserved
Aastind leaving Ipswich for Ghent, Belgium.
Name: Aastind
Vessel type: Aggregates carrier
Home port: Gibraltar
Flag: Gibraltar
IMO: 9147136
MMSI: 236729000
Call sign: ZDRJ9
Length overall: 116.58 m
Beam: 16.75 m
Draught: 6.85 m
Depth: 9.2 m
Gross tonnage: 4,999 ton
Net tonnage: 2,835 ton
Max deadweight: 8,130 ton
Number of holds: 2
Hold 1 dimensions: 40 x 14.5 x 9 m
Hold 1 capacity: 5,138 m3
Hold 2 dimensions: 40 x 14.5 x 9 m
Hold 2 capacity: 5,139 m3
Excavator: 1 x Hitachi ZC870 LCH-5
Discharge rate: About 650 ton/hour
Engine: 1 x MAK 6M32
Engine output: 1 x 3,540 hp (2,640 kW)
Bow thruster: 1 x 362 hp (270 Kw)
Speed: 12 knots
Builder: Niestern Sander, Delfzijl, Netherlands
Yard number: 808
Keel laid: 20th. October 1996
Launch date: 4th. September 1997
Completion date: 14th. November 1997
Owner: Aasen Transport As, Mosterhamn, Norway
Previous names:
Alida S until October 2019
Vectis Harrier until May 2007
Viscount until May 2004
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.
Aggregate flow from Ribblehead sidings continues into its second week.
60047 'Faithful' passing Helwith Bridge with empties 6C78 Tuebrook - Ribblehead quarry sidings, Monday 26/9/22.
Copyright Iain Reid - no unauthorised use
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 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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Concrete street gutter a few blocks from my home
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About the worst aggregate I have ever seen - the concrete is much stronger with angular aggregate.
Probably from stream gravel deposits from the S. Platte River about a mile to the west. Possibly 50 to 60 years old. Today most of our aggregates come from crusher plants, so it is much sharper and more uniform.
Freightliners 66623 passes Milbrook with 6M39 (01.21) Moreton on Lugg - Radlett loaded aggregates with Rugbys finest Kev Moore at the helm on 10/9/20.
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
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.
66014 climbs past the church at Wootton Rivers towards the overbridge at Brimslade Farm hauling 6M15, the 07:07 Tytherington - Calvert with a load of aggregate for the HS2 project
In tidepool below Rosario Head in Deception Pass State Park.
Usually these grow tightly together, but in recent years, their numbers have dwindled to only a few; possibly because of the King Tides we've gotten in the winter.
Anthopleura elegantissima
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.
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.
Led by the usual DB Cargo Shed, 6M15, the 07:07 Tytherington - Calvert HS2 aggregate working follows the Kennet and Avon eastwards at Crofton. 66020 doing the honours
Taken with the aid of a pole
This outcrop is the wall of Solite Quarry's Pit B on the Virginia-North Carolina state line. It's an aggregate quarry that has operated since the 1950s. Good fossils occur at this site - the original finds were on the Virginia side of the border, while the best fossils are on the North Carolina side. The aggregate plant's physical address is in Virginia. The currently active pits are in North Carolina.
The rocks here are tilted, northwest-dipping sedimentary rocks of the Cow Branch Formation (Upper Triassic). The unit is part of the Newark Supergroup, a thick, geographically-widespread stratigraphic unit in eastern America. It is Late Triassic to Early Jurassic in age and represents sediments and some lava flows that filled up old rift valleys roughly paralleling the modern-day Eastern Seaboard of America. The rift basins formed in the Triassic when the ancient Pangaea supercontinent attempted to break apart, but failed. A successful breakup of Pangaea occurred during the Jurassic. Most of the basin-filling rocks are terrestrial redbeds - hematite-rich siliciclastic sedimentary rocks, such as conglomerate, sandstone, siltstone, and shale, deposited in nonmarine environments.
Using Triassic rift basin terminology, this area is in the Danville Basin / Dan River Basin. Cow Branch beds at the Solite Quarry are principally lacustrine in origin - Lake Danville occupied this area during the Triassic. About 270 meters worth of mostly fine-grained siliciclastics are exposed here. Reported lithologies include claystone, silty claystone, dolomitic claystone, carbonaceous siltstone, sandstone, and carbonaceous dolostone.
The succession has cyclicity ("Van Houten Cycles") - ten or more cycles are exposed in the wall of pit B. Each cycle is a transgressive succession of lake sediments. The cyclicity is interpreted as the result of Milankovitch-related climate forcing. Changes in climate and sedimentation can be caused by slight changes in Earth's orbital parameters - e.g., eccentricity (how circular Earth's orbit is around the Sun), obliquity (the angle of Earth's axial tilt), and precession (the direction that Earth's axis points).
A lagerstätte occurs in these beds - a soft-bodied fossil deposit - a fossil occurrence with exceptional preservation. The fossils are principally insects and vertebrates, particularly Tanytrachelos, an aquatic reptile (they're nicknamed "Tanees" in the field). Tanytrachelos with fossil skin impressions are known from here. The long-necked gliding reptile Mecistotrachelos aperos has also been found. Other fossils at the site include conchostracans, a spider, fish, and plants.
Early interpretations concluded that the exceptionally preserved fossils were in a deep-water lacustrine facies. More recent studies have shown it was likely a shallow-water, toxic lacustrine facies.
Thousands of fossil insects from the Solite Quarry have been collected by the Virginia Museum of Natural History. Fifteen to twenty species from six insect orders are present in the lagerstätte horizon and the total insect diversity may be over twice this. Reported insects include thrips, cockroaches, waterbugs, crane flies, etc.
Locality: southwestern wall of Pit B of the Solite Quarry, east-northeast of town of Eden, far-northern Rockingham County, northern North Carolina, USA (36° 32’ 22.87” North latitude, 79° 40’ 22.19” West longitude)
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Some info. synthesized from:
Liutkus et al. (2010) - Use of fine-scale stratigraphy and chemostratigraphy to evaluate conditions of deposition and preservation of a Triassic lagerstätte, south-central Virginia. Journal of Paleolimnology 44: 645-666.
Many mainlines in the country have a lot of industries along the line that are serviced by local freights. Alas, the Moffat is not one of those mainlines. In fact, the only remaining industry served by a local between Denver and Bond is the Arcosa Lightweight aggregate plant. It is located at the far north end of the Rocky Flat Industrial Lead, about four miles north of Rocky. Here is an overview of the plant and almost two dozen covered hoppers at the plant. A pair of GP40-2s just dropped off three more covered hoppers for the plant.
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Stubborn rolling cloud is the early order at 07.56 yesterday as Cl59/0 59005 reaches Winchfield upon 6002 05.51 Westbury Tarmac-Woking Down Yd aggregates.
20th May 2024
GBRf celebrity 66711 in its striking Aggregate Industries livery passes through Dringhouses with a very late (over 3 hours) 6G81 Church Fenton - Tyne Yard via Castleford engineering train.
Loaded up with a mix of track panels and used ballast, the train was stuck, along with 6G82, due to issues with the loadings of the train. The possession overran by about an hour or two causing a little bit of chaos this morning.
DB Maritime Intermodal liveried Class 66, 66051 Maritime Intermodal Four approaches Newhaven Town Station with the Acton TC- Newhaven Marine aggregate empties.
6M05 is in the process of being unloaded by the grab in Washwood Heath Up Sidings as 6M31 Banbury to Mountsorrel zips along the Up Fast for a refill. 66105 was at the head of the Moreton train whilst 66155 was working the Banbury service.
Photographed during a minus tide.
Although it is still wet, it is several feet above the water level.
This is a large example of Puget Sound's common Aggregating Anemone (Anthopleura elegantissima).
It was a very sunny day, I shaded them with an umbrella to avoid the mass of specular highlights. But have reflections of the sky and my white umbrella, which I did not realize until I got it up on the computer screen.
Has been cropped so the texture of the sea anemones can be seen.
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Deserted platforms at York on Thursday 20th December 2018, herald the arrival of GB Railfreight 66766 heading the 6L61 08:52 Thrislington to Chesterton Junction loaded construction aggregate. Everyone must have been in town doing their last minute Christmas shopping or ordering on-line at home, or even at work of course!
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