STONE MILESTONES:
DCRail began a new service on October 24 between Tytherington Quarry in Gloucestershire and Appleford, Oxfordshire, which is to run on 4-5 days each week. Cappagh blue-liveried Class 66, No. 66028 operated the first train. Consisting of 22 matching JNA-T wagons, conveying over 1600 tonnes of limestone, it is seen being unloaded (and with a rainbow overhead) at Appleford. Resources were transferred to the operation following the windingdown of DCRail traffic between Machen Quarry in South Wales and Kidlington Road, Oxford, which ran at a frequency of three trains per week between March and October 20, moving around 115,000 tonnes of stone.