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JGA bogie aggregate hopper No.FLHH 17324 of Freightliner Heavy Haul (ex-R H Roadstone) at Stoke Gifford Yard, 1 May 2010. This type of VGA was built by W H Davis (Langwith Junction) in 1987.
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Another first for me and an unexpected livery on this train of empty aggregates wagons brought the camera quickly over from the Blackburn Valley line to the nearest spot to get a shot of this working; next to the Centretainment tram stop on the GCs old line from Mexborough to Woodburn Junction. The Bardon Aggregates flow is still operating and will for a while to come yet as the big Sheffield Road Refurbishment program is now into its 3rd year and approaching the place I live, at last. The roads round here , and all over of course, being absolutely atrocious and having not been resurfaced in any serious way for the last 30 years, 'Pothole City' is/was an apt alternate title for 'The City of Steel', maybe now it will be 'City of Smooth Roads'. Be interesting to see just how long it is before they all start being dug up to access services or for changes to the system, for the time being, the resurfaced roads are a pleasure to drive on; the rest are merely Car/Bus shock-absorber fodder.. as well I know. The full Bardon working comes up from the quarry situated south-east of Burton-on-Trent and Coalville in Leicestershire just about every weekday morning, and occasionally Saturday as well, last Saturday being one of those times, arriving at the north-west end of Tinsley Yard at around 06:30 having set off from the quarry at 01:30. After around 4 hours during which time the wagons are automatically unloaded as the loco moves the line forward over the drop at slow speed, providing 1800 tonnes a day for Amey's aggregates processing plant which was built right next to the rail, something sensible happened there. After unloading the material, the loco runs round the wagons, see-
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showing 66623, 'Bil Bolsover' undertaking just such a move. The run-round line is in front of the two aircraft-hangar type buildings, now occupied by a Marks
& Spencer distribution centre and completely un-connected to the rail system! The loco then heads in a south-east direction and comes under the Wood Lane bridge where the only piece of line at this end of the Yard now exists, the loco reverses back along a third line past the M&S buildings and couples up to the other end of the now empty Bardon Aggregates wagons. Shortly after that, the whole lot moves off back out of the Yard, taking the same line once more, once electrified at 1500VDC to carry traffic on the Woodhead line, and seen here in this picture, coming down the grade from the Yard to Broughton Lane Junction. This route was tested by a couple of DRS class 20s, 20301 and 20302 and, miraculously, I manged to be present at the side of the line when they came along in October 2012, before the Bardon trains started running, see-
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This is colourful liveried DBC class 66, 66711, 'Sence' on the 6M83, Tinsley Yard(GBRf) to Bardon Hill Quarry 600 tonne empties move back to the quarry.
Marlstone aggregate concretion from the Pleistocene of Quebec, Canada. (7.6 centimeters long)
Concretions are post-depositional structures found in some sedimentary successions, particularly in shales. They vary in mineralogy, size, and shape, but often have slightly flattened spheroidal shapes. They typically form by post-depositional mineralization around some nucleus (a rock fragment or fossil fragment).
The Canadian specimen shown here formed by fusion of several smaller concretions - hence the term "aggregate concretion". The rock itself is marlstone, a mix of fine-grained calcareous and clay components ("lime-clay").
Samples from this site are remarkable for their unusual shapes, which promote pareidolia in human observers. I'm inclined to geologic pareidolia, so I see a stylized resemblance to agnostoid trilobites (www.flickr.com/photos/jsjgeology/15076810740).
Stratigraphy: near-latest Pleistocene (sensu traditio) lake deposit, ~11 ka
Locality: Abitibi area, western Quebec, eastern Canada
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Various rubble and concrete fragments piled up on what is left of the former runway on the airfield at Brough.
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JHA bogie aggregate hopper (inner) No.OK 19838 of Hanson (ex-ARC) at Kensington Olympia, 12 October 2009. This type of JHA was built by Powell Duffryn (Cardiff) and Standard Wagon (Heywood) in 1990-91.
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GBRf class 66, 'Shed' 66755, 'Tony Berkeley OBE, RFG Chairman 1997-2018' on the 6M83, Tinsley Yard(GBRf) to Bardon Hill with a rake of empty HYA Aggregate Wagons. It came into Tinsley, as usual, this morning on the 6E97 from the Bardon Hill quarries and into the stone terminal at Tinsley Yard with a full load for processing by the Amey Stone Re-processing Facility at the north-west end of the old Yard.
Brush Aggregates fleet list
Brush Aggregates Ltd fleet list 1973 when the business entered a new boom phase.. A mix of Leyland Super Comet, Scammell Routeman and Foden S20 tippers.
VPU431L and VPU432L were subsequently owned by keen Atkinson operators, Keyes Bros of Great Totham.
There is little trace of this operation now, a photo of a Dodge from an earlier, 1960s incarnation survives running as AJ Brush Ltd
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Livery was green with gold lettering
The resurrected company was Brush Aggregates Ltd, also trading from Fullbridge Wharf, Maldon [the original Grade II listed Welcome Sailor Inn]
A fibreglass cab of one of the Scammells was derelict in early 1989 on a disused gravel pit in Heybridge, since developed with housing.
Alan John Brush b 1932 was a millionaire living, in his 30s, in grade II listed Woodham Mortimer Place in the 1960s and at Leez Priory, a grade I listed Tudor mansion, in the 70s. Thrice married, he died in 2002. His first wife [whose name the coastal gravel ship carried] married Jack Russell of the local haulage company as noted below. He would certainly have been able to have written a racy autobiography.
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Operations included a pit south of Mockbeggars Hall near Ipswich as well as the large pit at Heybridge basin between the Blackwater estuary and the Chelmer & Blackwater canal.
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Mr Brush senior, whose name the aggregate ship originally carried, was living at Churston, Fullbridge Quay at the time of his death in 1966.
YNO654S a Bedford which was subsequently painted white, off the road in 1991, new in 1978
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$110 per ton - $5.60 per 50 lb bag - Missouri Rainbow is a locally quarried river rock that is multi colored. It is popular for dry creek beds or general landscaping purposes. It is available in a 1 inch, 2 inch, 3 inch, and 3-6 inch variety. The 2 inch covers 80 square feet at two inches deep
Freightliner Class 66 66623 "Bill Bolsover", currently wearing Bardon Aggregates livery, hauls the 15:38 6G22 (?) Washwood Heath R.M.C to Bescot up engineers sidings sleeper train.
Passing Lafarge Aggregates a mile north of Banbury station with a late afternoon Birmingham Moor St - Marylebone working.
What appears to be a four-track main line is quite interesting: the near line is for Lafarge, of course, but the others are long loops which come off the main line in the distance by the signals. The one on the far side is a remnant of the former connection with the ex-GCR line via Woodford Halse and forms a lengthy Up loop cum lay-bye through the station for freight trains which, when following a passenger train which has to call at the station, can keep running and then rejoin the main line without stopping. I've watched some of these workings and they can be quite slick. Plans are afoot to extend these loops.
Techy stuff: Clubman 168004 on the 15.55 from B'ham.
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JGA bogie aggregates hopper No.RMC19237 of EWS (in debranded RMC livery) and used by Cemex at Stratford, 19 November 2008. These wagons were built by Tatrastroj Poprad, Poland in 1997.
Sunday and not much happening on the network ... except two moves, the 1st from Pontefract, a Civil Engineers train of 1000 tonnes operated by DBS and due to sit in the Brightside Up/Down East Slow line for an hour awaiting passage back north to Doncaster. This is a circuitous route south from Pontefract through Moorthorpe and Masbrough to Brightside for reversal, only for it to go back north, taking the east-bound turnout at Swinton, through Hexthorpe to the yard at Doncaster. It wasn't always this way however as the south-bound line crossed the Doncaster line at South Elmsall, making north to east moves possible and there was a similar connection on the south side of the Doncaster line for west to south moves. These two connections were still in situ in 1913 between what was then the south-bound, S&K (Swinton & Knottingley) line and the West Riding & Grimsby line (of the G.N & G.C.R) and the southern connections was still present in 1953 as it still is today allowing moves from the south to and from Wakefield. The northern connection had been taken out by the early-1950s and it is this curve which would have proved useful today, unless it was a driver, route learning exercise in which case the jaunt along to the loop at Brightside may have been for other reasons. The working is sat at the end of the loop in these shots off beyond the postal sorting office seen in the next pictures and Arfadint has a picture of that situation here-
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and shows the Freightliner class 66, 66053 sat at the end of the loop with its short rake of wagons as DBS 60024 approaches on the outside road, the 60 itself set to run round its train once the 66 has departed on the 6T60, Pontefract Baghill to Belmont Down Yard working. These pictures show the working of DBS class 60, 60024, coming along the curve out of the site of the old Coopers Scrapyard, now occupied by both EMR, European Metal Recyclers, and Cemex Cement and although this may look like scrap train, the wagons hold aggregates. This is yet another location which is becoming more and more festooned with vegetation though not quite close enough to the tracks to warrant any NR action... unfortunately.
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On the 13th May 2015 the GPS Cervia (ex Cory Recruit) haeds down the River Thames at Vauxhall Bridge with an empty lighter from Hanson at Wandsworth for Dagenham.
With the number of construction sites by the Thames in south west London hopefully there will be plenty of demand for this traditional Thames lighterage operation.