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66705 is in the process of running round a partially discharged 6G88 which it has drawn out from the Lafarge siding passing 66788 which has arrived with 6G80 from Peak Forest with 66601 waiting patiently in Small Heath station with 6G67 from Tunstead.
In stunning winter weather GBRf 60002 “Graham Farish - 50th Anniversary 1970 - 2020” makes its way south towards Horton in Ribblesdale, it’s seen thundering along the S&C near South House Farm, Selside with 6F69 12:54 Ribblehead V.Q - Tuebrook Sdgs loaded aggregates, this was the second of two Class 60 hauled freights over the Settle & Carlisle route.
January 2025.
Typically utilised in pairs on materials flows up to a glorious finale the familiar returning Salfords/Purley-Cliffe Brett Marine aggregates enters Clapham Jn with 33051/116 in retro-BR rail blue.
Quite a twitchy wait knowing a potential blocking-out at any time!
1997
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
With the spire of All Saints' Church in Oakham in the background class 66 No. 66119 trundles down the gradient towards the north portal of Manton tunnel with the 6L41 0635 Mountsorrel Sdgs to Peterborough West Yard.
19th March 2025.
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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.
The builders bags of stone at Water Orton East Junction are slowly being consumed by the brambles, viewed through the engineers access gate as 66780 rolls by with 6V05 Bardon Hill to Coton Hill loaded aggregates.
GB Railfreight Class 66 diesel locomotive 66713 "Forest City" approaches Small Heath station working 6G92 Hindlow to Small Heath Lafarge 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
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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Railfreight Construction liveried 33042 approches West Ealing with a train of Paddington - Angerstein Wharf aggregate empties. April 1990
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.
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!
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.
During the warmer months, The Chilean devil rays (Mobula tarapacana) aggregate in big groups in different seamounts in the Azores. This photo was taken in Princesa Alice bank, southwest of Pico and Faial islands.
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
Now in Aggregates livery and named 'Sence' GBRFs 66711 seen working 6Z71 Harrow on the hill to Wellingborough Yard at Kangaroo Spinney, Wellingborough on 30/3/13.
Aggregates liveried 66711 'Sence' comes under the road bridge at a very wet Stowmarket in charge of 4E20, the 13.21 from Felixstowe South FLT to Masborough.
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!
Mixed pairing 59005 and 66510 powerfully tread the curvatures at the approach to the Crofton pumping station 6A50 Whatley Quarry-Hanwell Bridge Loop aggregates.
2nd May 2025
72.1 lb. (32.2kg) Sericho with a 15 x 14” face. Pallasites are the most visually stunning meteorites IMHO.
When the planets of our solar system aggregated from the primordial dust and ice swirling in a disc around the sun, some crazy things happened. We are used to the relatively stable result, 4.6 billion years later, but in the early days, some planetoids collided cataclysmically; others were flung out of our solar system entirely, to the lifeless void of deep space.
These dense iron meteorites contain the molten metal cores of some planetary body that ended in a mighty kaboom. We know it was big because a molten iron core appears when a planetoid is big enough to have enough gravity to fractionate the elements of the periodic table, with the heavier iron-loving elements migrating to the core and a different subset of the periodic table (e.g., Si, Al, Ca, Na, Mg) constituting the outer mantle and crust. We have never drilled to the molten core of Earth, or even deep into our mantle, but these remnants of planets past are representative of what we would expect to find in the Earth’s core and mantle.
Pallasites are an incredible potpourri of shattered mantle in a dollop of molten metal core. They can only form in space where the absence of gravity allows the lighter gemstones to remain scattered throughout the heavy metal matrix (on Earth, they would segregate by density). Those crystal gems are olivine (and perhaps some peridot as we call it on Earth).
If we were to etch the metal with a weak acid (exposing the anisotropic crystalline patterns), we would see something beautiful, an interwoven 3D nest of interlocking shards, a metal crystallization that also could not be made on Earth, but for a different reason: they have to cool very, very slowly, over 10 million years! In the insulating vacuum of space, the motel metal cools slowly as it radiates heat (no conduction or convection).
If this all sounds like a rare event, it is. 2% of meteorites in the Met Bull are irons, and only 0.2% are Pallasites.
When an iron meteorite is forged into a tool or weapon, the extraterrestrial crystal patterns remain, but become stretched and distorted. The patterns usually cannot be fully eliminated by blacksmithing, even through extensive working. When a knife or tool is forged from meteoric iron and then polished, the patterns appear in the surface of the metal. In ancient times before the invention of steel, these iron-nickel alloys were like advanced alien technology, and probably were the origin of folkloric beliefs about magic swords and vorpal blades. Even King Tut was buried with his meteorite dagger.
There is much going on in this Sericho Pallasite — a meteoritic medley. Transluscent olivine gems across the color spectrum. And the metal matrix has large chromite inclusions (grey).
Based on isotope analysis at ETH Zürich, this meteorite spent the last 130-160 million years free floating in space before intersecting Earth's orbit.
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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