66154 Hams Hall to Dollands Moor 4O57 for Domodossola Italy via France and Switzerland

Due to someone trespassing on the line at Peckham Rye all services travelling via the Catford Loop were suspended causing a delay to 66154 working 4O57 having travelled from Bescot to Hams Hall earlier in the day (66154 WBAT BESCOT DS 654G57CF02 8 * HAMSHALRC N).

 

DB Schenker Rail (UK) Ltd's class 66 (JT42CWR) number 66154 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 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/). 66154 (works number 968702-154) was built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division, London, Ontario, Canada in 1999 and unloaded from the Heavy Lift Ship MV "Stellanova" at Newport Docks on 14 January 2000.

 

In Switzerland the route passes;

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

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

Thun..............................

Spiez.............................

Frutigen........................

Kandersteg..................

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

before crossing the boarder for Domodossola.

 

According to Realtime Trains the route and timings for 4O57 in the UK were;

Hams Hall Reception Line 1536 No report

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

Nuneaton Abbey Junction......1602......1557 5E

Nuneaton [NUN] 7......1606......1559½ 6E

Rugby Trent Valley Junction......1634......1618 16E

Rugby [RUG] 6 1637 1639 1620 1622 17E

Hillmorton Junction......1642......1624 18E

Daventry North Junction......1645½......1628 17E

Long Buckby [LBK]......1652......1632½ 19E

Northampton [NMP] M......1710......1651 19E

Hanslope Junction [XHN] N......1724......1709 15E

Milton Keynes Central [MKC] 1......1730......1716½ 13E

Bletchley [BLY] 4......1733......1723 10E

Ledburn Junction [XOD] S......1743......1732 11E

Tring [TRI] 5......1750......1737½ 12E

Bourne End Junction (Herts) [XOE]......1757......1745 12E

Watford Junction [WFJ] 9......1812......1800 12E

Harrow & Wealdstone [HRW] 6......1818......1807 11E

Wembley Central [WMB] 6......1823......1811½ 11E

Willesden Sudbury Junction W......1835......1816 19E

Willesden West Londn Junction [XWI]......1842......1839 3E

Mitre Bridge Junction [XMB]......1843½......1841 2E

North Pole Junction......1845......1842 3E

Kensington Olympia [KPA] 3......1851......1845 6E

Latchmere Junction......1859......1854 5E

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

Voltaire Road Junction [XVJ]......1911......1912

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

Crofton Road Junction......1918......1919 1L

Peckham Rye [PMR]......1918½......1946½ 27L

Nunhead [NHD] 2......1920......1951½ 31L

Bellingham [BGM]......1925......2003 38L

Shortlands Junction [XOR]......1928½......2006 37L

Bromley South [BMS]......1930......2010 39L

Bickley Junction [XLY]......1932½......2014 41L

St Mary Cray Junction [XMU]......1933½......2016 42L

Swanley [SAY] 2......1940......2021 41L

Otford Junction [XOT]......1950½......2035 44L

Maidstone East [MDE] 2......2010......2059 49L

Ashford International [AFK] 6......2038½......2129 50L

Dollands Moor Sidings [XLM] 2054 2145 51L

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