66086 Hams Hall to Dollands Moor 4O57 (to Domodossola Italy via France and Switzerland)

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DB Schenker's class 66 (JT42CWR) number 66086 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. Wagon numbers were not known however two gaps of 3½ and 1½ wagons were not loaded leaving room for an extra 10 Unit45.com containers to have travelled. The IKA 'Megafret' 'low floor' twin intermodal flat wagons are 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/).

 

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

 

Hams Hall Reception Line...............1536 ...............1536.............RT

Whitacre Junction [XQW].................1542................1542½..........RT

Nuneaton Abbey Junction...............1602................1559¼.........2E

Nuneaton [NUN] 7...............................1606................1600¾........5E

Brinklow.................................................1624½.............1613.............11E

High Oaks Junction............................1630.................1615¾........14E

Newbold Junction...............................1632.................1616½........15E

Rugby Trent Valley Junction.............1634.................1620...........13E

Rugby [RUG] 6.................................1637/1639.....1623¼/1634¼..4E

Hillmorton Junction............................1642..................1637............4E

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

Daventry South Junction...................1646½..............1642¼.......4E

Long Buckby [LBK]..............................1652.................1647¼........4E

Northampton Mill Lane Junction.....1707½..............1657¼.......10E

Northampton [NMP]............................1710..................1710¾.........RT

Hanslope Junction [XHN] .................1724.................1723¼........RT

Wolverton [WOL] 4...............................1727½.............1727............RT

Milton Keynes Central [MKC] 1..........1730.................1729½.......RT

Denbigh Hall South Junction............1732.................1731¼.........RT

Bletchley [BLY] 4...................................1733.................1732¾.......RT

Leighton Buzzard [LBZ] 4...................1740½.............1738¼.......2E

Ledburn Junction [XOD].....................1743.................1740¾.......2E

Cheddington [CED] 4..........................1745.................1742...........3E

Tring [TRI] 5............................................1750................1747............2E

Berkhamsted [BKM] 4..........................1754................1751............3E

Bourne End Junction [XOE]...............1757.................1755¾.........1E

Hemel Hempstead [HML] 4...............1759.................1757¼.........1E

Apsley [APS] 4.......................................1801½..............1758¾.......2E

Kings Langley [KGL] 4..........................1805½............1801............4E

Watford Junction [WFJ] 9....................1812.................1810½.........1E

Bushey [BSH] 6......................................1813½.............1813¾........RT

Harrow & Wealdstone [HRW] 6.........1818.................1818¾........RT

Wembley Central [WMB] 6..................1823...............1822½.......RT

Willesden Sudbury Junction...............1835...............1827............7E

Willesden West Londn Junction........1842...............1836¾.......5E

Mitre Bridge Junction [XMB]...............1843½...........1839...........4E

North Pole Signal Vc818.......................1844½...........1839¾.......4E

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

Shepherds Bush [SPB] 1.......................1849...............1843¼.......5E

Kensington Olympia [KPA] 3................1851...............1845¼.......5E

West Brompton [WBP] 3.......................1854..............1848¼........5E

Imperial Wharf [IMW] 1...........................1856..............1850¼.......5E

Latchmere Junction...............................1859...............1853¾......5E

Factory Junction.....................................1910................1910½.......RT

Voltaire Road Junction [XVJ]...............1911.................1911¾........RT

Denmark Hill [DMK] 2............................1916................1918...........2L

Crofton Road Junction..........................1918................1919¼.........1L

Peckham Rye [PMR] 4...........................1918½.............1920¼.......1L

Nunhead [NHD] 2...................................1920...............1922..........2L

Bellingham [BGM]...................................1925...............1928½......3L

Shortlands Junction [XOR]...................1928½............1931½.......3L

Shortlands [SRT]......................................1929...............1932½......3L

Bromley South [BMS].............................1930................1933¼......3L

Bickley Junction [XLY]............................1932½............1935½......3L

St Mary Cray Junction [XMU]...............1933½............1937...........3L

Swanley [SAY] 2.......................................1940...............1942¾......2L

Otford Junction [XOT].............................1950½...........1955¾......5L

Maidstone East [MDE] 2.........................2010..............2014¾......4L

Ashford International [AFK] 6...............2038½..........2040..........1L

Dollands Moor Sidings [XLM]...............2054..............2055.........1L

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