66174 Hams Hall to Dollands Moor 4O57 (to Domodossola Italy via France and Switzerland)
DB Schenker Rail (UK) Ltd's class 66 (JT42CWR) number 66174 in English, Welsh and Scottish Railway maroon livery with zigzag gold band, large number and EWS logo. The locomotive was photographed working 4O57, hauling Unit45.com intermodal containers mounted on IKA 'Megafret' 'low floor' twin intermodal flat wagons containing manufactured goods, drinks and retail produce 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 on 2 August 2014.
The loaded wagons continue on through the channel tunnel to Calais Frethun hauled by a class 92, before being taken on by other locomotives through Northern France and Switzerland via Saint-Louis in North-Eastern France, on the German and Swiss borders just north of Basel, to DB Schenker's Domodossola intermodal terminal in the Piedmont region of Northern Italy (see route map www.flickr.com/photos/99279135/14945660579/). 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 2014 where a locomotive change occurs (www.flickr.com/photos/50604235/14854616453/). 66174 (works number 968702-174) was built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division, London, Ontario, Canada in 1999 and unloaded from the Heavy Lift Ship MV "Jumbo Challenger" at Newport Docks on 18 November 1999.
Wagons included 33 68 4909 387-5, 33, 33 68 4909 970-8, 33 68 4909 348-7, 33 68 4909 390-9, 37 80 4909 074-9, 33 68 4909 480-8, 33 68 4909 490-7, 33 68 4909 448-5, 33 68 4909 466-7 and 37 80 4909 195-2.
According to Realtime Trains the route and timings were;
Hams Hall Reception Line 142014155E
Whitacre Junction [XQW] pass1426pass1421¾4E
Nuneaton Abbey Junction pass1443pass1439¼3E
Nuneaton [NUN] 7pass1445pass1441½3E
Brinklow pass1457pass1453½3E
High Oaks Junction pass1500½pass1456½3E
Newbold Junction pass1501½pass1457¼4E
Rugby Trent Valley Junction pass1503pass1459¼3E
Rugby [RUG] 6pass1505pass1501½3E
Hillmorton Junction pass1507pass1504¾2E
Daventry North Junction pass1510½pass1508½1E
Daventry South Junction pass1511½pass15101E
Long Buckby [LBK] pass1516½pass1515¼1E
Northampton Mill Lane Junction pass1528pass1523½4E
Northampton [NMP] UMLpass1529½pass1530RT
Hanslope Junction [XHN] pass1553½pass1543¼10E
Wolverton [WOL] 4pass1557pass1548¼8E
Milton Keynes Central [MKC] 1pass1559½pass1552½7E
Denbigh Hall South Junction pass1601½pass1555½5E
Bletchley [BLY] 4pass1602½pass1557½4E
Leighton Buzzard [LBZ] 4pass1611pass1604½6E
Ledburn Junction [XOD] pass1613½pass1607¾5E
Cheddington [CED] 4pass1615½pass1609¾5E
Tring [TRI] 5pass1620½pass16164E
Berkhamsted [BKM] 4pass1625pass1620¼4E
Bourne End Junction [XOE] pass1628pass1622¼5ESSL
Kings Langley Loop 16341715½1626¾1627¼48ESS
Watford Junction [WFJ] 9pass1720½pass1630¾49ESSL2
Bushey [BSH] 6pass1722pass1632½49E
Harrow & Wealdstone [HRW] 6pass1727½pass1636¾50ESSL
Wembley Central [WMB] 6pass1731½pass164150ER
Willesden Sudbury Junction pass1745½pass1850½65LRW
Acton Wells Junction pass1753½pass1914¼80L
Acton Central [ACC] pass1755½pass1917¼82L
Kew East Junction pass1758pass1924¼86L
New Kew Junction pass1800pass1923¾83LK3
Chiswick [CHK] 1pass1802½pass1925¾83L
Barnes Bridge [BNI] 1pass1805½pass1928½82L
Barnes [BNS] 1pass1807½pass193082LWSH
Putney [PUT] 1pass1809pass1932¾84LS
Wandsworth Town [WNT] 4pass1810pass1935¼85L
Clapham Junction [CLJ] 3pass1811pass1939¼88LDL6½
Factory Junction pass1822½pass1944¾82LAL1
Voltaire Road Junction [XVJ] pass1824½pass1945¾81LA½
Denmark Hill [DMK] 2pass1830pass195080L
Crofton Road Junction pass1832pass195280LM½
Peckham Rye [PMR] 4pass1833pass1952¾80LD
Nunhead [NHD] 2pass1834½pass1954¾80LC
Bellingham [BGM] pass1839½pass2002¼82L
Shortlands Junction [XOR] pass1843pass2006¼83LR
Shortlands [SRT] pass1843½pass2007¼84LFF
Bromley South [BMS] 3pass1844½pass201085LF
Bickley Junction [XLY] pass1846½pass2014½88LF
St Mary Cray Junction [XMU] pass1847½pass201688L
Swanley [SAY] 2pass1852pass202290L
Otford Junction [XOT] pass1902½pass2035¼92LM3
Borough Green & Wrotham [BRG] pass1909½No report
Maidstone East [MDE] 2pass1924pass2054¼90L3
Ashford International [AFK] 6pass2000½pass2120¾80LF
Dollands Moor Sidings [XLM] 2014212874L
66174 Hams Hall to Dollands Moor 4O57 (to Domodossola Italy via France and Switzerland)
DB Schenker Rail (UK) Ltd's class 66 (JT42CWR) number 66174 in English, Welsh and Scottish Railway maroon livery with zigzag gold band, large number and EWS logo. The locomotive was photographed working 4O57, hauling Unit45.com intermodal containers mounted on IKA 'Megafret' 'low floor' twin intermodal flat wagons containing manufactured goods, drinks and retail produce 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 on 2 August 2014.
The loaded wagons continue on through the channel tunnel to Calais Frethun hauled by a class 92, before being taken on by other locomotives through Northern France and Switzerland via Saint-Louis in North-Eastern France, on the German and Swiss borders just north of Basel, to DB Schenker's Domodossola intermodal terminal in the Piedmont region of Northern Italy (see route map www.flickr.com/photos/99279135/14945660579/). 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 2014 where a locomotive change occurs (www.flickr.com/photos/50604235/14854616453/). 66174 (works number 968702-174) was built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division, London, Ontario, Canada in 1999 and unloaded from the Heavy Lift Ship MV "Jumbo Challenger" at Newport Docks on 18 November 1999.
Wagons included 33 68 4909 387-5, 33, 33 68 4909 970-8, 33 68 4909 348-7, 33 68 4909 390-9, 37 80 4909 074-9, 33 68 4909 480-8, 33 68 4909 490-7, 33 68 4909 448-5, 33 68 4909 466-7 and 37 80 4909 195-2.
According to Realtime Trains the route and timings were;
Hams Hall Reception Line 142014155E
Whitacre Junction [XQW] pass1426pass1421¾4E
Nuneaton Abbey Junction pass1443pass1439¼3E
Nuneaton [NUN] 7pass1445pass1441½3E
Brinklow pass1457pass1453½3E
High Oaks Junction pass1500½pass1456½3E
Newbold Junction pass1501½pass1457¼4E
Rugby Trent Valley Junction pass1503pass1459¼3E
Rugby [RUG] 6pass1505pass1501½3E
Hillmorton Junction pass1507pass1504¾2E
Daventry North Junction pass1510½pass1508½1E
Daventry South Junction pass1511½pass15101E
Long Buckby [LBK] pass1516½pass1515¼1E
Northampton Mill Lane Junction pass1528pass1523½4E
Northampton [NMP] UMLpass1529½pass1530RT
Hanslope Junction [XHN] pass1553½pass1543¼10E
Wolverton [WOL] 4pass1557pass1548¼8E
Milton Keynes Central [MKC] 1pass1559½pass1552½7E
Denbigh Hall South Junction pass1601½pass1555½5E
Bletchley [BLY] 4pass1602½pass1557½4E
Leighton Buzzard [LBZ] 4pass1611pass1604½6E
Ledburn Junction [XOD] pass1613½pass1607¾5E
Cheddington [CED] 4pass1615½pass1609¾5E
Tring [TRI] 5pass1620½pass16164E
Berkhamsted [BKM] 4pass1625pass1620¼4E
Bourne End Junction [XOE] pass1628pass1622¼5ESSL
Kings Langley Loop 16341715½1626¾1627¼48ESS
Watford Junction [WFJ] 9pass1720½pass1630¾49ESSL2
Bushey [BSH] 6pass1722pass1632½49E
Harrow & Wealdstone [HRW] 6pass1727½pass1636¾50ESSL
Wembley Central [WMB] 6pass1731½pass164150ER
Willesden Sudbury Junction pass1745½pass1850½65LRW
Acton Wells Junction pass1753½pass1914¼80L
Acton Central [ACC] pass1755½pass1917¼82L
Kew East Junction pass1758pass1924¼86L
New Kew Junction pass1800pass1923¾83LK3
Chiswick [CHK] 1pass1802½pass1925¾83L
Barnes Bridge [BNI] 1pass1805½pass1928½82L
Barnes [BNS] 1pass1807½pass193082LWSH
Putney [PUT] 1pass1809pass1932¾84LS
Wandsworth Town [WNT] 4pass1810pass1935¼85L
Clapham Junction [CLJ] 3pass1811pass1939¼88LDL6½
Factory Junction pass1822½pass1944¾82LAL1
Voltaire Road Junction [XVJ] pass1824½pass1945¾81LA½
Denmark Hill [DMK] 2pass1830pass195080L
Crofton Road Junction pass1832pass195280LM½
Peckham Rye [PMR] 4pass1833pass1952¾80LD
Nunhead [NHD] 2pass1834½pass1954¾80LC
Bellingham [BGM] pass1839½pass2002¼82L
Shortlands Junction [XOR] pass1843pass2006¼83LR
Shortlands [SRT] pass1843½pass2007¼84LFF
Bromley South [BMS] 3pass1844½pass201085LF
Bickley Junction [XLY] pass1846½pass2014½88LF
St Mary Cray Junction [XMU] pass1847½pass201688L
Swanley [SAY] 2pass1852pass202290L
Otford Junction [XOT] pass1902½pass2035¼92LM3
Borough Green & Wrotham [BRG] pass1909½No report
Maidstone East [MDE] 2pass1924pass2054¼90L3
Ashford International [AFK] 6pass2000½pass2120¾80LF
Dollands Moor Sidings [XLM] 2014212874L