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68018 speeds past Millom signal box with 6C15 1000 Drigg BNF to Shap Summit Quarry empty aggregates working.
First ever time at this location and a brand new spot for lineside photography at the time of taking this image.
Here we see SBB Cargo Re6/6 locomotives 620 016 (front) and 620 007 (rear) pass through Immensee with train 67788 from Bodio - Hüntwangen-Wil on the very hot evening of the 18/7/24 (special thanks to Julian for the train ID info).
Aggregate Industries 59005 heads 6V18 11:20 Allington A.R.C. Sdg. to Whatley Quarry through Slough on 29th Sept, 2015.
6M60 Whitemoor to Mountsorrel. Class 66s with 707 in GBRF livery leading and 711 in Aggregate industries livery tucked in behind head north running along side the ECML with a rake of wagons
The aggregate, which appeared to be small chippings is dropped in the discharge station, fed onto the conveyor an will be directed into the second clamp, seen on the right of the picture.
Aggregates liveried 59004 'Paul A Hammond' (originally named Yeoman Challenger) comes through the centre road at Kensington Olympia with 7V00, the 12.18 departure from Newhaven Day Aggregates to Acton Yard.
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
Empty PN aggregate train 1297 works around the curve at Werai, with TT106 leading and TT108 34 wagons behind it. The train will load aggregate for use in construction products at Peppertree quarry, before returning to Boral at Cooks River in the evening for unloading.
GBRf's 'Aggregate Industries' liveried 66711 'Sence' passes Blisworth on 4M23 10:36 Felixstowe North GBRf to Hams Hall GBRf liner.Diverted up the 'Old LIne' via Weedon because of reduced passenger services.
Freightliner 66557 passes Finedon Road Yard,Wellingborough working 6M39 Crewe Basford Hall to Radlett aggregates.
GBRf 'Aggregate Industries' liveried 66711 'Sence' passes Kibworth,to the north of Market Harborough, on the 12:01 Angerstein Wharf to Bardon Hill empty aggregates.
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
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.
Aggregate Industries liveried 66711 awaits the 4N25 18.23 departure from Drax to Jarrow Tyne Coal Terminal, Thursday 25.10.18.
Our 2 hour arranged visit was well timed to coincide with this working unloading and drawing forward to await departure time, along with the sunset and arrival of the blue hour, with the twinkling lights on the towers and conveyors, as well as the yard lights reflecting off the railhead.
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BR Blue Cromptons 33027 and 33029 pass Lewisham with aggregates empties for Angerstein Wharf in June 1990
Aggregating Anemones, Anthopleura elegantissima (as corrected below), on the side of a large rock,
North Point,
Morro Strand State Beach,
Morro Bay, California
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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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).
GBRf operated 5X89 Slade Green - Doncaster passes Stubton on 17th June 2017 with celebrity 66711 'Sence' leading 465930
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.
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.
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.
For this week's theme on Macro Mondays, which was... Less Than An Inch.
A so called berry (well, the raspberry), which is not a berry (but an aggregated stone fruit, according to my botany classes at university - the USEFUL stuff they teach you....), amongst seedless grapes...which, ironically, are berries (again, according to the botanists).
Nice colour contrast between the different, well, berries, and since the grape was less than a cm in diameter, the entire frame should definitely be... less than an inch.
And its food. Who's to argue with that....
Finally I made it.... :))
HMM!
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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There is a fair amount of stone on the move through Wahwood Heath on 14th June 2021, as GBRf Class 66 No. 66778 'Darius Cheskin' passes the new Tarmac facility while heading 6G92 0814 Hindlow - Small Heath Larfarge. Meanwhile, in the Tarmac facility is Freightliner Class 66 No. 66623, which is in the process of easing 6Z53 0600 ex - Moreton-on-Lugg through the discharge point. Copyright Photograph John Whitehouse - all rights reserved
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!
Florida East Coast Railway train 101 is a jack of all trades Bowden to Hialeah run across the length of the railroad with intermodal, manifest and aggregate hoppers. The monster trainis led by LNG powered GE ES44ACs 804 and 822 built in Nov. and Dec. 2014 respectively and spliced by their custom LNG fuel tank car. Originally diesel powered the entire GE fleet has been retrofitted to run on LNG as detailed in this article: files.chartindustries.com/FEC-LNG-FloridaEastCoastRailway...
This famous view looking down from the Roosevelt Bridge which carries US Route 1 over the St. Lucie River is a signature FEC location and long on my wish list. The more than thousand foot long trestle has a bascule span with a 50 ft wide channel that has recently become a major issue now that Brightline service has begun on this segment resulting in a tripling of the daily train crossings and a disruption to the substantial marine traffic. Additionally the bridge which sits at about MP 260.9 on FEC's Flagler Sub mainline is the last remaining single track segment between Cocoa and Miami following the complete rebuilt in advance of Brightline's northward expansion.
Funding has been allocated for the bridge's replacement in the coming years so get your shots now.
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Monday March 25, 20234
GB Railfreight Class 66 diesel locomotiv 66301 "Drax Poer Station 50" approaches Small Heath station at the head of 6G99 Tunstead Sidings to Banbury Reservoir Redland Aggregates.
GBRf Aggregate Industries liveried 66711 'Sence' passes Ashwell Gatehouse ,Rutland working the 11:22 Church Yard Castle Cement to Ketton empties.
Hanson Aggregates 59004 'Paul A Hammond' descends Savernake and passes Wolfhall Farm working 7A17 Merehead Quarry to Acton T.C. loaded stone on 14 July 2021.
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.
68003 'Astute' is seen leading 6C15 Drigg-Shap Summit empty aggregate south at approaching Millom - 06/02/2025
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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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