66075 Hams Hall to Dollands Moor 4O57 (to Domodossola Italy via France and Switzerland)

66075 WBAT HAMSHALRC 664O57CR01 1 * DOLLANDSM N 4M31

 

For the third day in a row DB Schenker's class 66 (JT42CWR) number 66075 in English, Welsh and Scottish Railway maroon with zigzag gold band works 4O57 from Hams Hall Birmingham railfreight terminal and logistics hub owned and operated by Associated British Ports (ABP) (www.hamshallrailterminal.co.uk/Trains/) to Dollands Moor. The IKA 'Megafret' 'low floor' twin intermodal flat wagons are then hauled through the channel tunnel by a class 92, then taken on by other locomotives through Northern France and across Switzerland to DB Schenker's Domodossola intermodal terminal in the Piedmont region of Northern Italy. According to DB Schenker the entire journey taking 35 hours. For a photograph of Domodossola yard on 23 July 2013 see Marcel van Eupen picture

( www.flickr.com/photos/rail4marcel2/9532886174/)

luethiro photographed this service between Zug and Kiesen, Bern Switzerland on 13 July 2014

(www.flickr.com/photos/luethiro/14667634446/)

and returning to Hams Hall on 14 April 2013

(www.flickr.com/photos/luethiro/10885677203/) while Mattias Catry photographed it at Spiez, Canton of Berne, Switzerland on 18 May 14 where a locomotive change occurs

(www.flickr.com/photos/50604235@N05/14854616453/). 66075 traveled from Dollands Moor to Hams Hall as 4M31 earlier in the day (66075 WBAT DOLLANDSM 894M31C001 1 * HAMSHALRC N 4O57). IKA 'Megafret' 'low floor' twin intermodal flat wagons being hauled with Unit45.com containers mounted on them containing manufactured goods, drinks and retail produce included 37 80 4909 213-3, 33 68 4909 193-7, 33 68 4909 967-4, 33 68 4909 113-5 (www.flickr.com/photos/99279135@N05/14618243668/), 33 68 4909 623-3, 33 68 4909 372-7, 33 68 4909 380-0 and 37 80 49?? ??2-0. 66075 was built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division, London, Ontario, Canada in 1999 and unloaded from the Heavy Lift Ship MV "Stellamare" at Newport Docks on 1 March 1999.

 

According to Realtime Trains the route and timings in the UK were;

Hams Hall Reception Line...............1536................1514.........22E

Whitacre Junction [XQW]................1542.................1520.......22E

Nuneaton Abbey Junction..............1602................1535........27E

Nuneaton [NUN] 7..............................1606...............1539½.....26E

Rugby Trent Valley Junction...........1634................16013.........3E

Rugby [RUG] 6................................1637/1639......1604/1636....3E

Hillmorton Junction...........................1642................1638..........4E

Daventry North Junction..................1645½............1641...........4E

Long Buckby [LBK].............................1652...............1647½.......4E

Northampton [NMP]...........................1710.................1709...........1E

Hanslope Junction [XHN].................1724................1720..........4E

Milton Keynes Central [MKC] 1........1730................1726½.......3E

Bletchley [BLY] 4.................................1733................1730..........3E

Ledburn Junction [XOD]...................1743................1740..........3E

Tring [TRI] 5..........................................1750................1747..........3E

Bourne End Junction [XOE].............1757.................1757..........RT

Watford Junction [WFJ] 9..................1812................1809½......2E

Harrow & Wealdstone [HRW] 6.......1818................1816½........1E

Wembley Central [WMB] 6...............1823...............1820..........3E

Willesden Sudbury Junction............1835...............1824..........11E

Willesden West Londn Junction......1842...............1836..........6E

Mitre Bridge Junction [XMB]............1843½............1838..........5E

North Pole Junction...........................1845................1840..........5E

Kensington Olympia [KPA] 3............1851.................1844..........7E

Latchmere Junction...........................1859................1853..........6E

Factory Junction.................................1910.................1909...........1E

Voltaire Road Junction [XVJ]............1911..................1910...........1E

Denmark Hill [DMK] 2.........................1916.................1916..........RT

Crofton Road Junction.......................1918.................1918..........RT

Peckham Rye [PMR]............................1918½.............1919..........RT

Nunhead [NHD] 2................................1920................1920½.....RT

Bellingham [BGM]................................1925................1928.........3L

Shortlands Junction [XOR]................1928½.............1932.........3L

Bromley South [BMS]..........................1930................1933½......3L

Bickley Junction [XLY]........................1932½.............1936.........3L

St Mary Cray Junction [XMU]............1933½............1938..........4L

Swanley [SAY] 2...................................1940................1943..........3L

Otford Junction [XOT]........................1950½.............1957..........6L

Maidstone East [MDE] 2....................2010................2016.........6L

Ashford International [AFK] 6..........2038½............2041.........2L

Dollands Moor Sidings [XLM]..........2054...............2054........RT

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