File:66127 Dollands Moor to Scunthorpe empty steel (16715618426).jpg
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DB Schenker Rail (UK) Ltd's class 66 (JT42CWR) number 66127 in English, Welsh and Scottish Railway maroon livery with zigzag gold band, large number and EWS logo is photographed working from Dollands Moor sidings to Scunthorpe Redbourne sidings on 7 March 2015. This service returns empty FIA 'Multifret' twin intermodal flat wagons used to transport steel for export in billet form from Tata Steels Scunthorpe complex on South Humberside in Lincolnshire (<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98929239@N03/14032630236/in/photostream/">see Andy Pictons photo</a>) to a freight yard at Ebange in Eastern France via Dollands Moor and Calais Fréthun through the Channel Tunnel (<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/99279135@N05/14036377443/">click here for the route</a>). Wagons being hauled included 33 70 4938 511 1, 31 70 4938 514 7, 31 70 4938 538 6, 31 70 4938 735 8 and 33 70 4938 703 4. Laurent Knop photographed Euro Cargo Rail's loco number E 186-317 at Valenciennes (Nord - department 59) hauling loaded wagons working from <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/x4644/13687214105/">Calais Fréthun to Ebange</a> on 2 April 2014. Nicolas Tomaszewski also videoed a loaded train passing Beuvrages hauled by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/france-ferroviaire/14112205833/">Euro Cargo Rail's E186 162-4</a>. Once in Ebange the steel is used at Tata's Hayange rail mill to produce rail for SNCF's LGV Est européenne construction programme to extend the French high-speed rail network. 66127 (works number 968702-127) was built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division, London, Ontario, Canada in 1998 and unloaded from the Heavy Lift Ship MV "Gajah Borneo" at Newport Docks on 21 June 1999. According to Realtime Trains the route and timings were; Ashford International UML...0925...........0929 1/4...................4L Maidstone East [MDE] 1.........1002............0952 1/4...................9E Otford Junction[XOT]............1023............1013 1/4.....................9E Swanley [SAY] 1.......................1034............1023 3/4.................10E St Mary Cray Junction...........1039............1028 1/2..................10E Bickley Junction[XLY]............1042............1029 1/4..................12E Bromley South [BMS].............1044 1/2......1033..........................11E Shortlands [SRT]......................1045 1/2......1035.........................10E Shortlands Junction...............1046............1036 1/4....................9E Bellingham [BGM]...................1049 1/2......1041 1/4.....................8E Nunhead [NHD] 1....................1054 1/2......1050 3/4...................3E Peckham Rye [PMR] 3............1056............1052 3/4...................3E Crofton Road Junction..........1057............1055...........................1E Latchmere Junction...............1122.............1122 1/4.....................RT Imperial Wharf [IMW] 2..........1126.............1125 1/4.....................RT West Brompton [WBP] 4........1128 1/2.......1127 1/2......................RT Kensington Olympia .............1132.............1130 1/4......................1E Shepherds Bush [SPB] 2.......1133.............1132 3/4.....................RT North Pole Signal Vc813.......1134.............1135............................RT Mitre Bridge Junction............1136.............1137.............................1L Willesden Junction 4.............1139/1141.....1141 3/4/1144.............3L Kensal Green Junction..........1143.............1146 1/2.....................3L Brondesbury Park [BSP] 1.....1147 1/2.......1148 3/4......................1L West Hampstead 2.................1150 1/2.......1150 1/2.....................RT Hampstead Heath 2...............1155.............1153 1/4.......................1E Gospel Oak [GPO] 4...............1157.............1155 1/4......................1E Alexandra Palace [AAP] 3.....1218 1/2.......1218 1/4.....................RT New Southgate [NSG] 4........1220 1/2......1221 1/4.....................RT Oakleigh Park [OKL] 4...........1223............1224............................1L New Barnet [NBA] 4...............1224............1225...........................RT Hadley Wood [HDW] 4..........1226............1226 1/2....................RT Potters Bar [PBR] 4.................1229............1229...........................RT Brookmans Park [BPK] 4.......1231 1/2.......1230 3/4...................RT Welham Green [WMG] 2.......1233............1231 3/4.....................RT Hatfield [HAT] 3.......................1235 1/2......1234 1/4......................1E Welwyn Garden City 3...........1239............1239...........................RT Welwyn North [WLW] 2.........1252 1/2......1243 1/2....................9E Woolmer Green Junction.....1255............1245 1/2....................9E Knebworth [KBW] 3................1256 1/2......1247...........................9E Langley Junction....................1258............1249 1/4....................8E Stevenage [SVG] 4.................1259............1250 1/4....................8E Hitchin [HIT] 2..........................1303 1/2......1254...........................9E Arlesey [ARL]............................1308 1/2......1258 1/4..................10E Biggleswade [BIW] 3..............1313.............1301 3/4...................11E Sandy [SDY] 2..........................1316.............1304..........................11E St Neots [SNO] 2.....................1324............1310 1/4...................13E Huntingdon [HUN] 3..............1331 1/2.......1316 1/4....................15E Holme Junction [XHO]..........1343/1350..NoRep/1324 1/2...25E Peterborough [PBO] 4...........1401/1410....1345/1346..............23E Bessacarr Junction.................1614.............1525 1/2.................48E |
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