Monday, 7 July 2025

Mendip Aggregates at Eastleigh, 4th July 2025

 

59102 Village of Chantry with 6O68 09:11 Westbury Tarmac - Crawley.

NACO 3900, the first of the series built by Marcroft at Stoke in 2000, and now the oldest wagons in the Mendip Rail fleet.

59005 KENNETH J PAINTER arrives with 6O70 11:15 Westbury Tarmac to Eastleigh Foster Yeoman. These ThFO STP workings are understood to be for infrastructure for the Welborne Garden Village.

The wagons were all hoppers, of the usual current Mendip Rail mix. The newest was HOA 81.70.6774.276-4, the third last of its lot, delivered in April 2025 from Greenbrier-Astra, Poland.

59205 passing through with 6V62 13:21 Up Yard - Westbury Tarmac.

The consist was completely formed from the 2000 vintage Marcroft JNA wagons, the last one was NACO 3943.