66119 Hams Hall to Dollands Moor 4O57 then Domodossola Italy via France and Switzerland
DB Schenker Rail (UK) Ltd's class 66 (JT42CWR) number 66119 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 10 September 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/). 66119 (works number 968702-119) 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 20 June 1999.
In Switzerland the route passes;
Bern..............................
Gumligen.....................
Thun..............................
Spiez.............................
Frutigen........................
Kandersteg..................
Brig................................
before crossing the boarder for Domodossola.
Due to a problem with Realtime Trains it is not possible to give timings for the route in the UK.
66119 Hams Hall to Dollands Moor 4O57 then Domodossola Italy via France and Switzerland
DB Schenker Rail (UK) Ltd's class 66 (JT42CWR) number 66119 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 10 September 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/). 66119 (works number 968702-119) 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 20 June 1999.
In Switzerland the route passes;
Bern..............................
Gumligen.....................
Thun..............................
Spiez.............................
Frutigen........................
Kandersteg..................
Brig................................
before crossing the boarder for Domodossola.
Due to a problem with Realtime Trains it is not possible to give timings for the route in the UK.