Hams Hall (UK) to Domodossola (Italy) 4O57, 4Z91 and 4M31 via France and Switzerland

A work in progress route map for trains running between Hams Hall and Domodossola Italy through Switzerland via Saint-Louis in North-Eastern France on the German and Swiss borders just north of Basel. If you can confirm or correct any of the route in blue please let me know.

In the UK the Unit45.com intermodal containers mounted on IKA 'Megafret' 'low floor' twin intermodal flat wagons containing manufactured goods, drinks and retail produce are hauled by a DB Schenker class 66 (JT42CWR) between Hams Hall Birmingham railfreight terminal and logistics hub owned and operated by Associated British Ports (ABP) (www.hamshallrailterminal.co.uk/Trains/) and Dollands Moor where a class 92 takes over for the journey through the channel tunnel.

 

The IKA 'Megafret' 'low floor' twin intermodal flat wagons are 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 planed route and timings in the UK are;

 

Hams Hall Reception Line...1536

Whitacre Junction [XQW]......1542

Nuneaton Abbey Junction.....1602

Nuneaton [NUN] 7......1606

Nuneaton South Junction.....1606½

Attleborough Junction.....1609

Shilton......1617

Brinklow......1624½

High Oaks Junction......1630

Newbold Junction......1632

Rugby Trent Valley Junction.....1634

Rugby North Junction......1635

Rugby [RUG] 6 1637 1639

Rugby South Junction......1640

Hillmorton Junction.....1642

Daventry North Junction.....1645½

Daventry South Junction.....1646½

Long Buckby [LBK]......1652

Northampton Mill Lane Junction.....1707½

Northampton North Junction.....1709½

Northampton [NMP] UML......1710 ½

Northampton South Junction.....1710

Roade......1719

Hanslope Junction [XHN]......1724

Wolverton [WOL]......1727½

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

Denbigh Hall North Junction.....1731

Denbigh Hall South Junction.....1732

Bletchley [BLY] 4......1733

Leighton Buzzard [LBZ]......1740½

Ledburn Junction [XOD]......1743

Cheddington [CED]......1745

Tring North Junction.....1749½

Tring [TRI] 5......1750

Berkhamsted [BKM]......1754

Bourne End Junction (Herts) [XOE]......1757

Hemel Hempstead [HML]......1759

Hemel Hempstead South Junction.....1759½

Apsley [APS]......1801½

Kings Langley [KGL]......1805½

Watford North Junction.....1811

Watford Junction [WFJ] 9......1812

Watford South Jcn......1812½

Bushey [BSH]......1813½

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

North Wembley Junction.....1821½

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

Willesden Wm830 & 934 1828 1833

Willesden Sudbury Junction.....1835

Wembley Yard South Junction......1836

Willesden No7 [XXW]......1839

Willesden West London Junction [XWI]......1842

Mitre Bridge Junction [XMB]......1843½

North Pole Signal Vc818......1844½

North Pole Junction.....1845

North Pole Signal Vc813......1845½

Shepherds Bush [SPB]......1849

Kensington Olympia [KPA] 3......1851

West Brompton [WBP]......1854

Imperial Wharf [IMW]......1856

Latchmere Junction.....1859

Longhedge Junction.....1907

Factory Junction.....1910

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

Clapham High Street [CLP]......1911½

Shepherds Lane Junction.....1912½

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

Crofton Road Junction.....1918

Peckham Rye [PMR]......1918½

Nunhead [NHD] 2......1920

Nunhead Junction.....1920½

Crofton Park [CFT]......1922

Catford [CTF]......1923½

Bellingham [BGM]......1925

Beckenham Hill [BEC]......1926

Ravensbourne [RVB]......1927½

Shortlands Junction [XOR]......1928½

Shortlands [SRT]......1929

Bromley South [BMS]......1930

Bickley [BKL]......1931½

Bickley Junction [XLY]......1932½

St Mary Cray Junction [XMU]......1933½

St Mary Cray [SMY]......1936

Swanley [SAY] 4......1940

Eynsford [EYN]......1944½

Shoreham (Kent) [SEH]......1947½

Otford [OTF]......1949½

Otford Junction [XOT]......1950½

Kemsing [KMS]......1953½

Borough Green & Wrotham [BRG]......1957

West Malling [WMA]......2003½

East Malling [EML]......2004½

Barming [BMG]......2007

Maidstone East [MDE] 2......2010

Bearsted [BSD]......2014½

Hollingbourne [HBN]......2018

Harrietsham [HRM]......2021½

Lenham [LEN]......2024½

Charing [CHG]......2030½

Hothfield......2034

Ashford Maidstone Loop......2038

Ashford International [AFK]......2038½

Herringe......2046

Westenhanger [WHA]......2049

Sandling [SDG]......2050½

Saltwood Junction [XSI]......2052

Dollands Moor Sidings [XLM]...2054

 

In France the route from Calais Frethun to Saint-Louis in North-Eastern France on the German and Swiss borders just north of Basel is thought to pass through;

Arzviller

Saverne

Monswiller

Steinbourg (www.flickr.com/photos/69841044@N02/13947623936/)

Dettwiller

 

In Switzerland the train is thought to pass through

Basel (Bâle)

 

Bern.............................

 

Gumligen....................

 

Kiesen…

Uttigen…

Thun…

Spiez…

Mülenen…

Frutigen….

Blausee-Mitholz…

Kandersteg…

through the Lötschbergtunnel (Lötschberg Tunnel)

Goppenstein…

Hohtenn…..

Brig...............................

 

before crossing the boarder for Domodossola.

 

Done