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14/02/2019 (Thur) 1930
Peak Forest (Buxton)
60039 Dove Holes
6E19 1917 Peak Forest to Attercliffe stone
(Zeiss 50mm f1.4 ZF2 Planar with Fotodiox lens adapter)
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Aha, a special livery...
With Network Rail strike action looming from 18:00 on Christmas Eve, passenger services across the network generally came to a close by late afternoon, to allow for the setting up of engineering possessions taking place over the Christmas shutdown.
Wearing the Aggregate Industries livery, GB Railfreight Class 66 diesel locomotive 66711 'Sence' heads through Stansted Mountfitchet with engineering consist in tow working 6T65 09:55 Whitemoor Yard L.D.C Gbrf to Camden Road 24/12/22
59103 Village of Mells runs through Dalston Kingsland with the return JNA Aggregate empties on the Chelmsford recp to Acton TC. When I got back to Ipswich the sun came out Great!
Hanson Aggregates' Class 59/1 59102 has accessed Down South Yd upon arrival 7012 04.24 ex Merehead Quarry by crossing all Bournemouth and Portsmouth route tracks, the later 09.30 slot utilised.
24th September 2021
BR Railfreight Aggregates Sector 37677 was undertaking shunting duties at Peak Forest in September 1989.
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Aggregate Industries liveried 59001 'YEOMAN ENDEAVOR' and Hanson liveried 59103 'Village of Mells' pass through Twyford with the 7A09 Merehead - Acton 'jumbo' stone train on the morning of 25th July 2018. Once the train reaches Acton is will be split and delivered to various locations around the London area.
GBRf 'Shed' Class 66 66728 passes over Ribblehead Viaduct while working an Aggregates train from Arcow Quarry. This was taken on Tuesday 14th August 2018
They are elegant flowerlike animals that have a tube-shaped body crowned with tentacles. (Elegantissima means most elegant) Sizes can vary; the crown’s diameter can get up to 80 mm (3.5 in) and the column diameter can get up to 60 mm (2.5 in). They do not need to go seek food; it comes to them constantly as the current carries tiny crustaceans and other animals past their tentacles. All they have to do is capture prey by stinging it with the nematocysts on the surface of their tentacles. Anemones can even ingest small crabs and then spew out the shells.
Aggregating anemones live on rocks in the middle intertidal pools and crevices, either alone or in dense masses. Although they live side by side, clone mates from different groups are enemies.
Sticky bumps on their bodies collect sand and bits of shells, which provide camouflage and prevent them from drying out. If they get buried by drifting sand, they can survive for more than three months. Oil spills or oil from storm drains, however, can destroy anemone habitats—and it can take two years or more for habitats to recover. If you go tide-pooling, be careful not to walk on or disturb anemones or other tide pool creatures. (more than one tired tide-pooler has sat down on a rock for a short rest, only to discover they are sitting on a wet and squishy anemone!)
www.nps.gov/pinn/planyourvisit/trails.htm
Pinnacles Visitor Center to Balconies Cave
9.4 miles round trip, 4 to 6 hours
Elevation: 300 feet
Moderate
Hike along sunny Chalone Creek on the Bench and Old Pinnacles trails to Balconies Cave. On the return trip, cross over the cave via the Balconies Cliffs trail for views of the largest rock formations in the park. Flashlight required in the cave.
Trails from Old Pinnacles Trailhead
Old Pinnacles Trail to Balconies Cave
5.3 miles round trip, 3 to 5 hours
Elevation: none
Moderate
This sunny hike to Balconies Cave also leads to towering rock formations: Machete Ridge and the Balconies Cliffs. Begin at the Old Pinnacles Trailhead. Flashlight required in the cave.
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Whilst waiting for a hospital appointment I wandered up to Bramhall Moor Lane Bridge between Hazel Grove and Woodsmoor on the LNWR Buxton branch. For my troubles I was rewarded with 66 797 at the helm of an aggregate train from Peak Forest to Hope Street Peakstone terminal in Salford.
DB Cargo red 66041 and EWS red 66002 are working hard round the curve at Kintbury, having just restarted 6A53, the 05:13 Tytherington - Appleford from Hungerford Up Loop
Aggregate Industries liveried 66711 'Sence' Waits time under the stars at Grain with 6M90 the 02:38 service to Neasden, comprising of 20 HYA's loaded with sand. This shot is hard to get these days as there is normally a criple wagon or two dumped adjacent to the engine.
Aggregates Industries bulk carrier Yeoman Bank, headed north towards Glensanda Quarry on the Morvern Peninsula for another load of stone.
NAME: Yeoman Bank
IMO: 7422881
MMSI: 636009548
Call Sign: ELOG5
Flag: Liberia [LR]
AIS Vessel Type: Cargo
Gross Tonnage: 24870
Deadweight: 43728 t
Length Overall x Breadth Extreme: 204.96m × 27.26m
Year Built: 1982
© I m a g e D a v e F o r b e s
Engagement 3,100+
>August 1st 2025 was the date of her retirement
after 43 years of service
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Outbound upper Clyde Clydebank
Aggregates Self-Discharging Bulker is assisted as she makes her way down the Clyde after a visit to Glasgow , seen here whilst passing the former John Brown's Shipyard. The tugs brought in for the towing job were Anglegarth & Ayton Cross.
Reaching 42 Years in service in 2024
VESSEL BUILDER
Constructed in 1982 Eleusis Greece
by Elefsis Shipyard
24,728grt Liberia flag
IMO 7422881
Previous Naming History
1982-1990 SALMONPOOL ( 8 Years )
The late months of the year cast long shadows across the tracks between Roby and Huyton from the trees adjacent to the line. Thankfully, a small gap of sunlight remained, and was wide enough to catch GB Railfreight loco 60087 hauling the 6F67 loaded aggregates from Tuebrook Sidings to Ashton-in-Makerfield.
Anthopleura elegantissima at minus tide,
North Point,
Morro Strand State Beach,
Morro Bay, California
I am still trying to make sense of this scene--one group of exposed anemones with many more bits of shells covering them on the right and the same species much less covered on the left. My very educated friend suggests that the anemones on left have more sand to protect them from overexposure, But I'm not so sure about that. For perspective, we are looking straight down at a fairly flat rock with the ocean to the left of the scene. Input welcome.
Later note: here's a better answer which I came upon while reading a great new book: “These elegant, green, pink-tipped Anthopleura elegantissima anemones grow on boulders on Pacific beaches . . . . each clone is incapable of tolerating non-self anemones within touching distance. The first result is a set of distinct border zones between clones, like the frontiers between warring states, traceable for yards across the boulders, what might be called 'the hate strips' separating one clone from another, and each an inch or two wide.”-- Adam Nicolson, Life Between the Tides
PFT1-17 GBRf 66762 6G92 & 66712 Peak Forest
GBRf 66-762 on 6G92 09:33 Tunstead Sidings GBRF to Small Heath Lafarge GBRf hauling bogie box wagons passes GBRf 66-712 sitting at the head of its train in Peak Forest sidings.
Cross London aggregates. 60029 is pictured taking the West London line at Culvert Road, between Longhedge and Latchmere Junctions, with 6Z71 1035 Grain to Willesden DC Rail Sidings loaded working. It's difficult to get any wider here without a ladder as you have to poke the camera through holes cut in the mesh and the buddleia prevented going to the next hole along as it would be lapping the loco bogies.
66610 makes its way out of Westbury approaching Fairwood Junction at the head of 6V16, the 14:18 Westbury - Whately aggregate 'empties'
Seems a fair few of the wagons are still loaded though
Aggregating Jelly (Eutonina indicans) with a parasitic Jelly-dwelling Anemone (Peachia quinquecapitata) attached to its bell with a bonus parasitic amphipod (Hyperiids sp.).
Empty aggregate hoppers from Hayes & Harlington heading for Hither Green negotiates the maze of trackwork as they approach Longhedge Junction led by DB Cargo's GM-EMD built Class 66 #66099 on the early afternoon of a very hot Wednesday the 18th of May 2022.
One of the two class 59/2 locomotives that have so far evaded a repaint into Freightliner livery, de-branded DB red 59205 is seen taking another load of Somerset limestone eastwards as it gets into its stride passing through Edington with the 6M20 10:38 Whatley Quarry to Churchyard Sidings (St Pancras) train of aggregate hoppers. The flowering oilseed rape helps to break up the green landscape at this time of year. Normally a class 66 turn, a motive power imbalance at Whatley saw this locomotive sent across light from Merehead to Whatley as 0F59 in order to work this train.
25/04/23.
66602 and 59206 John F Yeoman bring 6L21, the 13:21 Whatley - Dagenham past the former site of of Grafton East Junction
The latest class 66 to receive the DB corporate colours is 66113 which has received special branding celebrating Britain's Key Workers which DB has been delivering for throughout the Covid-19 crisis. On this occasion the locomotive has delivered sea dredged aggregate from the terminal at Angerstein Wharf to the Day Aggregates terminal at Woking where it is currently being unloaded. A 12 car class 450 is leading a South Western Railway service over Woking Junction and onto the Portsmouth Direct route.
66563 runs alongside the Kennet and Avon canal at Crofton with the late running 6A25 06:07 Stoke Gifford - Appleford aggregates
It should have been past here over an hour and a half previously and was actually showing as on TRUST as cancelled
DI1 passing the pond in Ossipee Aggregates with the veteran GP18 #1801 pulling 11 empties and the caboose #100
With the cloud building over the Vale of Pewsey, 59206 'John F. Yeoman' is seen trundling through Woodborough with the 7C77 12:39 Acton to Merehead train of empty aggregate box wagons. 10/10/16.
Aggregate Industries liveried 59004 'Paul A Hammond' passes through Reading hauling the 1323 Whatley Quarry to Dagenham Dock A.R.C.
RhB Class Ge 4/4' pairing 603 'Badus' and 602 'Bernina' were recorded passing through Bever station with a train of loaded sand hoppers forming the 6156 15:51 Samedan to Preda. These veteran locomotives have been given regular work during 2016 moving materials and spoil associated with the construction of the new Albula Tunnel.
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GBRf's 'Aggregate Industries' liveried 66711 'Sence' passes Gayton,on the Northampton avoider.with 4M23 10:36 Felixstowe North GBRf to Hams Hall GBRf liner.
Demand for aggregates seems to be insatiable in 2022, which may be a reason for 4H65 1514 Bescot Down Side to Hindlow Gbrf running on a Saturday, in this case 26th February 2022, running empty JNA box wagons from The West Midlands back to the Peak District to be refilled with more and more limestone aggregate. This diagram is routed to the Peaks along the West Coast Mainline to Sandbach, then via the Middlewich branch to the Mid-Cheshire line and then the Cheadle Branch to reach New Mills and the line to the quarries. GBRf’s 66745 ‘Modern Railways The First 50 Years’ passes Plumley on Saturday 26tH February 2022.