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DRS 66422 and 37716 stand at the head of stone trains at Peak Forest, Derbyshire on a gloomy 22 Dec 2021.
DETAILS FOR THIS VEHICLE.
Location : Radyr Wagon Works, PD Engineering Ltd.
Date : 11/10/1990.
Type : Bogie Aggregate Hopper Wagon.
Weight : 90t GLW / 22.2t Tare.
Number : RHR 17316.
Number Series : RHR 17301 to RHR 17327.
Builder : 1987 by W.H. Davis Ltd, Langwith Jn. Works.
TOPS Code : PHA (later JGA).
ADDITIONAL NOTES.
27 of these high set discharge bogie aggregate wagons were built in 1987 for RH Roadstone Ltd. They copied a design first used by the builder W.H. Davis in 1983 for Murphy Aggregates Ltd. The similar 'Marcon' wagons were used for sand and gravel traffic in South East London and Kent and the high set discharge could permit a lorry mounted conveyor to be placed under the doors to offload to a stockpile rather than build expensive bottom discharge pits.
RH Roadstone was a joint venture company formed in 1973 between Redland Roadstone Ltd and Hoveringham Stone Ltd. They had extensive limestone quarries in the Mendip Hills with two, Asham and Westdown but neither were rail connected so all product to rail had to go by road to Whatley. By the time these wagons were built RH Roadstone had been sold to Tarmac so a strange choice to letter the wagons as they did. Their initial use was on a convoluted circuit working carrying different products on each leg or each direction. These were limestone dust (often referred to as Meldon Dust), fine chippings or sand. It's unusual for wagons of this type to carry different products in either direction as there is always a risk of contamination. From what I gather the circuit was Cliffe Hill - Marks Tey / Marks Tey - Whatley / Whatley - Marks Tey / Marks Tey - Cliffe Hill. Enough were built for two sets to operate at one time but I've not been able to confirm any of these trains in the relevant working timetables so they might have been short term or as required trains. The fact they weren't designed to carry bulk stone and were intended for finer grade aggregates is probably the reason that within 3 years most of the fleet was stored out of use. They did make a return to service working out of Redland Roadstone Ltd, Mountsorrel Quarry by 1995 but it was short lived. Since then they have show up on all manor of ad-hoc workings like Pumice stone from Hull Docks to Allington and reduced slag from Port Talbot to Godstone. More recently Freightliner Heavy Haul bought 23 of them in 2006 for sand traffic from Cornwall, they then passed to Eversholt leasing for short term hire to GBRF but they have now all been scrapped.
66711 Aggregates livery @ NOTTINGHAM with the 4E80 1315 HOTCHLEY HILL - DONCASTER DOWN DECOY empty gypsum , Wednesday 06th May 2015
Although Mendip Rails' Class 59s are infrequent visitors to Cardiff Canton for tyre turning, the DBC flavours are an entirely different matter.....
DB Cargo (& former National Power) 59205 arrives at Pengam Sdgs,. with the diverted 6C80 14:00 Machen Quarry - Westbury on 01/4/2017
The R2 was a real pleasure to drive and was one of my favourites as it had plenty of running time so was naturally suitable for a gentle pace. It also was dutied for the drivers to have aggregated stand time which meant with a good 20 to 30 minutes stand time on most journey's on arrival at Petts Wood the gentle pace plus plenty of stand time meant that although there was no meal break as such the accumulated stand time meant there was always time for a hot cuppa coffee and a sandwich. This was an inherent trait that was a Crystals Coaches way of doing things which Tellings Golden Miller continued. Indeed we were still on Crystals wages and duties. When route R8 was created as part of the R2 tender the aggregated meal breaks were stopped and the duties made like a modern bus company as apposed to an old style enterprise that approached bus operations in a slightly less ethical way. I was quite keen on how the Crystals duties were set out because they gave me time to interact with passengers and smile and enjoy the job. Late turns on the R2 were great fun and I missed the interaction with passengers when the Varios were replaced by dual doored Caetanos. Although the latter were most pleasant to drive, the R2 never felt the same since.
Seen here on the old aggregated meal break stand at Station Square, Petts Wood is preserved Vario 706 R706MJH.
Photo ( c ) Tom G.2015.
Freightliner owned Aggregate Industries liveried 59004 "PAUL A HAMMOND" with the 6V07 VAR 13:41 Chichester Recp. (Flhh) to Merehead Quarry (Fhh) stone empties at Bursledon on the 27th May 2020.
This is now classed as diverted (Botley line closed from Sat 23rd to Friday 29th May for track renewal at Knowle and Tapnage) as there is now a new WTT for the return empties of this working via Botley instead of the Fareham to Southampton line, this could well be the last booked return working via the Fareham to Southampton route. With the inbound loaded working to Chichester being rerouted via Botley in January 2020 and now the return more recently in May this currently leaves the Fareham to Southampton line with no booked freight.
Aggregate Industries livery 59004 'Paul A. Hammond' passes Millards Farm with 7V12 15.38 Woking-Merehead on 11/07/19.
One of my favs,my dads mate posing.
I think this was taken at Chertsey.
Fond memories in going in one of these.
GB Railfreight now have a toehold on a Mendip aggregate working. 66750 'Bristol Panel Signal Box' is seen here running alongside the Kennet & Avon canal as it approaches Crofton with the 6V42 08:13 Wellingborough to Whatley train of empty aggregate box wagons. This particular locomotive previously saw work in mainland Europe and as a result has a number of detail differences such as rectangular buffers and continental light clusters. 23/08/16.
After reversing at Tyseley, GBRf/Beacon Rail Class 66/7 No. 66797 eases the loaded bogie box wagons of 6G34 0229 ex- Hindlow - into Small Heath Lafarge Sidings on 30th October 2021. A long abandoned car-carrier wagon is a reminder that the yard was once used for automotive services. Copyright Photograph John Whitehouse - all rights reserved
Aggregate Industries Class 59 001 'Yeoman Endeavour' approaches Taunton with empty stone wagons running as 6C28 1345 Exeter Riverside N.Y. to Whatley Quarry.
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Trainload Construction Class 56 56035 was recorded passing West Ealing with the 6Z49, aggregates train from Bardon Hill to Thorney Mill. The Bardon Hill Quarries discharge and distribution terminal would be accessed via a short freight only spur from West Drayton, using a section of the former Staines branch.
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Class 66 No. 005, "Maritime Intermodal One", takes the mid-morning aggregates working to Newhaven through East Sussex, trundling at a fare lick through Plumpton Green (Plumpton Station) and onwards to Lewes and Newhaven.
DETAILS FOR THIS VEHICLE.
Location : Carlisle Kingmoor Yard.
Date : 10/10/2010.
Type : Bogie Aggregate Hopper Wagon.
Weight : 90t GLW / 22.2t Tare.
Number : FLHH 17316.
Number Series : FLHH 17302 to FLHH 17324.
Builder : 1987 by W.H. Davis Ltd, Langwith Jn. Works.
TOPS Code : JGA.
ADDITIONAL NOTES.
Taken 20 years after the previous image, almost to the day (see previous image for details or below to compare).
Former RH Roadstone JGA hopper no.17316 was one of 23 from the original build of 27 to be sold to Freightliner Heavy Haul in 2006. The wagons were overhauled and repainted into Freightliner's green livery and I was under the impression they were never lettered with the company name (since proved otherwise see comments and linked image below). They were obtained for a new flow of clay sand which is a waste product from the china clay industry. The initial flows ran from Burngullow in Cornwall to Bow in East London but FLHH won further contracts for sand to Neasden in West London and the Bow traffic later switched to Angerstein Wharf in South London. When this traffic ceased the wagons found further use with FLHH in South Wales working out of Neath Abbey Wharf to destinations around London.
When I took this picture in Kingmoor Yard I never noted why they had arrived so far north, I suspect they were for a trial load of lime or gritstone out of either Shap Blue Quarry or Shap Beck Quarry but equally could have been used as brake force runners. To my knowledge the remaining vehicles are now stored or scrapped.
Aggregating or clonal anemones, Anthopleura elegantissima/sola, fight with polyps from different genetic colonies. The white tentacles are used solely to deter other colonies from encroaching on their space. When it's all over, the loser will move.
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Walking along the edge of these cliffs is a little unnerving. You see what they are made of, which is basically a mishmash of rocks and dirt. Very strange material that seems ready to fall apart at any moment. However, they don't change much in human time.