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With the closure of the Goblin line for Electrification work several freight diversions are making it quite busy through here. Aggregate Industries 59002 comes through on platform 10 with the Dagenham Dock ARC to Acton TC hoppers.Going through platform 10a 70017 is passing on the Garston to London Gateway liner.A London Overground 378 unit is about to depart for Richmond.
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 crownâs 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 habitatsâand 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!)
Even when DB Cargo had the Mendip aggregate contract, 6M20, the 10:38 Whatley - Churchyard Sidings was always a good bet for a Shed rather than a 59. Tha hasn't changed since Freightliner took over, although 59s do turn up. Seen at Hungerford Common behind 66622
Breedon Aggregates 20168 leads a rake of PCA wagons down the Hope Cement Works branch on a very dreary day. The class 20 is used as the more widely seen class 66 is too heavy for the branchline; still, it gives a rare sight of a class 20 on a freight train! 22/08/2024
At Freightliners Midland road depot Leeds Yeoman aggregates liveried 59002 "Alan J Day" (sat on accommodation bogies) is parked with 70020+70008 on a dull Saturday the 1st of April 2023.
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.
BR Railfreight Aggregates Sector 37677 was undertaking shunting duties at Peak Forest in September 1989.
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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: âThese 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.â-- Adam Nicolson, Life Between the Tides
Aggregates traffic moved between Merehead Quarry and Thorney Mill Terminal produced this view taken at Berkley in July 1988. BR Railfreight 56051 had an assortment of loaded bogie hoppers [PHA] in tow forming the 6A52 07:40 SX from Merehead to the Thames Valley terminal.
This particular Class 56 locomotive was built at BREL, Doncaster Works, being delivered in November 1978. It would join the EW&S fleet in 1995 and following withdrawal, it was later reinstated and gained the 'fertis' branding pending possible use on construction trains in France. In due course was given a new lease of life and can be seen in 2023 in Colas Rail Freight colours and aptly named 'Survival'. I do like a happy ending!
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Running along the slow passenger lines, DC Rail Freight Class 60 loco 60046 'William Wilberforce' heads eastbound through West Ealing Station. Leading a rake of loaded blue wagons, its makes its way toward Acton hauling the 6Z52 aggregates train from Tytherington to Willesden Yard.
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.
Brush built 60089 in the short lived Transrail colours (if you can call them that) rolls through Peak Forest with an unidentified empty stone working sometime in May 1998.
60089 was withdrawn in 2010 and has been stored at Toton since then. Currently listed as up for sale, after so long out in the elements it's probably not good for much.
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DB 66 023 'Celebrating The Kings Coronation' Rolls Through Wandsworth Road on an Aggregate's train. The Union Jack and Royal seal can just be seen on the side. I'd seen it come through Clapham Junction on my arrival there and my Overground service on the South London Line passed it on the myriad of lines around Clapham. Not the best shot but an Overground 378 can just be seen creeping into view at the bottom ruining a wider perspective. I'd seen this loco running around on the Neasden spoil train so it was good to finally get some record of it.
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.
Freightliner Aggregate Industries GM Class 59/0 - 59005
7O68 12:35 ACTON T.C. - 14:05 PURLEY YD DAY AGGS (FLHH) on 17/10/2023 at Kensington Olympia, London W14 0NE
Aggregating Jelly (Eutonina indicans) with a parasitic Jelly-dwelling Anemone (Peachia quinquecapitata) attached to its bell with a bonus parasitic amphipod (Hyperiids sp.).
66602 and 59206 John F Yeoman bring 6L21, the 13:21 Whatley - Dagenham past the former site of of Grafton East Junction
GBRf's Aggregates Industries liveried 66 711 'Sence' approaches Madeley Junction hauling 6M05, the 1051 Tinsley Yard - Coton Hill Yard empty stone hoppers on Monday 4th May 2020.
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.
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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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. GBRfâs 66745 âModern Railways The First 50 Yearsâ passes Plumley on Saturday 26tH February 2022.
The view here is the main sidings at Merehead Quarry looking towards Cranmore with the quarry behind me. Freightliner 59102 sits at the head of a jumbo loaded aggregate train which has 66526 in the consist half way down, the roof of which can just be seen. It will run as 7A16 to Hanwell Bridge Loop where it will split into two trains, one running as 7O55 to Stewarts Lane and the other running as 7L46 to Bow Depot. The shunter behind the train (SW1001 'Switcher') is coming forward and will then push the train backwards onto the quarry branch line down by the trees in the background. 22nd September 2021.
DB Cargo 66075 passes Wellingborough's Finedon Rd. Yard with the 07:07 Mountsorrel to Hothfield Siding aggregates.
Rugged wall detail of what was Bankside power station's oil tanks, now part of the Tate Modern. Herzog and de Meuron's 2016 refurbishment left much of the raw concrete untouched, although this polished aggregate infill looks like an intervention. London Borough of Southwark
66151 passes Wootton Rivers with 4Z58, the 11:40 Oxford Banbury Road - Westbury
After a couple of hours at Westbury, these empties will set off for Machen Quarry in South Wales.
The flow of aggregate from Machen to Oxford (rather than from Tytherington to Appleford) was a temporary arrangement while Tytherington Quarry was closed for maintenance
59002 (7A17) Merehead Quarry to Colnbrook Foster Yeoman. passes under Lambridge Road Bridge heading towards Westbury with a loaded stone train hauled by the Aggregates Liveried Class 59.
A hot afternoon at Hungerford and 66610 heads for Whatley with 7C58, the 11:45 ex Oxford Banbury Road aggregate empties