tarboat's photos with the keyword: sand

Mersey Wharf at Bromborough, has two operational berths with a quay length of 230m and can handle ships up to 6,000 tonnes. Marine-won sand is landed and processed at the Eastham Sands facilities here. It is used as a source of aggregate for construction and other purposes in the local area. Dutch registered general cargo vessel Lady Harriet has been unloading steel onto the wharf.

Below Harboro Rocks in the High Peak of Derbyshire stand the remains of a mill for processing silica sands and iron oxides which were used in the production of paints and the former also for refractory bricks. Little is known about this particular plant and it has been suggested that it never went into production.

Silica sand quarrying is a significant industry in Cheshire. The Bathgate quarry processing plant at Arclid is situated in the original workings whilst the sand is pumped by pipeline from a new quarry some distance away.

The last train from the British Industrial Sand Moneystone quarry at Oakamoor on the Churnet Valley line. The sand went to St Helens for the glassmaking industry. 30th August, 1988.

Multiple grades of silica sand pile up at Dingle Bank Quarry in Lower Withington. Cheshire is a major producer of industrial sand in the UK. This quarry is operated by Sibelco and more than one million tons of silica sand are extracted every year, principally for the manufacture of glass.

Below Harboro Rocks in the High Peak of Derbyshire stand the remains of a mill for processing silica sands and iron oxides which were used in the production of paints and the former also for refractory bricks.

Lough Neagh sand suction dredger barges Ballyronan and Toomebridge at Northstone's Sandy Bay wharf. These are two of eight identical vessels built by James W Cook Ltd of Wivenhoe, Essex, between 1968 and 1974 for Scotts of Toomebridge. They are 120’ 6" long by 19’ 3" beam and all loaded and discharged by pump. They were built at the largest size for the locks on the Lower Bann which gives access to the lake from the sea. The sand trade on Lough Neagh continues to occupy several companies and a large number of barges in dredging around 1 million tonnes of sand annually.

Lots of corrugated iron to be seen at the Maes-y-Droell silica sand quarry at Llanarmon.

Attenborough sand and gravel pit was established in Nottinghamshire in the 1920s. Since then the pit has expanded up the Trent Valley in Nottinghamshire, and into Derbyshire. The current extraction operated by CEMEX UK Materials (Aggregates) Ltd is undertaken almost 5km from the processing plant and material is moved across the flooded former workings with barges pushed by Bantam tugs. The flooded pits form an extensive nature reserve which is managed by Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust and Broxtowe Borough Council. Here a load of gravel is just setting off from the loading staithe quite near to the Radcliffe power station.

Silica sand quarrying is a significant industry in Cheshire. The Bathgate quarry processing plant at Arclid is situated in the original workings whilst the sand is pumped by pipeline from a new quarry some distance away.

QJ 7036 in the deserts of Ningxia with empty coal wagons for the Yangchangwan Mine on the Daba-Guyaozi Coal Railway.

The Dingle Bank quarry at Chelford is operated by Sibelco and supplies the glass, foundry, and ceramics industries with high quality graded sands.

Cold desert conditions as a QJ class 2-10-2 heads the empties towards Yangchangwan Mine on the Daba-Guyaozi Coal Railway. View On Black

Silica sand and rusty buildings at the Maes-y-Droell quarry at Llanarmon.

Sand towers at the Daban depot of the Jitong railway. In October 2004 the shed was still almost entirely steam locomotives and very busy at all hours.

The Hanson sand and gravel terminal at Shoreham, West Sussex. Sea dredged material is processed on this site.

Processing plant building at the Maes-y-Droell silica sand quarry, Llanarmon.

Graded grains building pyramids of different sands at the Dingle Bank quarry.