92042 Dollands Moor to Wembley 6B20 (6B41) eau minerale Danone bottled mineral water (Evian, Volvic, Perrier) from France for Daventry

DB Schenker Rail (UK) Ltd's class 92 number 92042 works 6B20 from Dollands Moor to Wembley European Freight Operations Centre on 8 September 2014 hauling G.E. Rail Services owned IZA (GE117CT Hfirrs 3) semi-perminantly coupled 4-wheeled CARGOWAGGON vans with shared running numbers built by Duewag. Having started out in France and passed through the channel tunnel these vans are used to transport Danone bottled mineral water (eau minerale "https://www.flickr.com/photos/99279135/14519696692/in/photostream/">www.flickr.com/photos/99279135/14519696692) including Evian imported from the French Alps, Volvic from the Massif Central and Perrier which is loaded into the vans near Nimes in the Languedoc-Roussillon region of southern France (the source of Perrier being at Vergeze about 15 km southwest of Nimes). (and Badoit?). From Wembley this train continues on route to Crick under headcode 6B41 and is ultimately unloaded at a distribution warehouse at Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal (DIRFT).

 

A similer set of cargowaggon vans was photographed by Nicolas Villenave on 9 May 2014 returning empty passing through Écaillon (department Nord) on their way from Calais Frethun to Culoz railway junction in the Ain department in the Rhône-Alpes region of France (www.flickr.com/photos/119085393/14147711054/), by Mattias Catry at Boisleux-au-Mont on 9 September 2012 (www.flickr.com/photos/50604235/7969763184/) and by Laurent Knop at Béthisy-St.-Pierre, Picardie in the Oise department on 12 March 2014 (www.flickr.com/photos/x4644/13156920803/). 92042 (works number BT1099) was built by the Brush Traction Company at Loughborough in 1996.

 

In France the bottled water trains travelling to and from England may take a number of different routes after leaving or before arriving at Calais Frethun but pass through;

 

Gare de Arras………………………………

Boisleux-au-Mont……………….

Gare de Achiet-le-Grand………..

Gare de Beaucourt………………

Gare de’Albert…………………..

Gare de Montigny……………….

Ecaillon, Nord-Pas-de-Calais……

Gare de Somain………………….

Culoz Junction…………………...

Gare de Volvic (freight only)……

 

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

Dollands_Moor_Sidings_[XLM] 0847 0852 5L

Ashford_International_[AFK] 0901 0907 6L

Maidstone_East_[MDE]_1 0926 0930_1/2 4L

Otford_Junction[XOT] 0952 0952_3/4 RT

Swanley_[SAY]_1 1005_1/2 1006_1/2 1L

St_Mary_Cray_Junction[XMU] 1011 1012_1/4 1L

Bickley_Junction[XLY] 1013 1014_1/2 1L

Bromley_South_[BMS] 1018 1018_3/4 RT

Shortlands_[SRT] 1021 1021_1/2 RT

Shortlands_Junction[XOR] 1022 1023 1L

Bellingham_[BGM] 1027_1/2 1028 RT

Nunhead_[NHD]_1 1035 1037_1/4 2L

Peckham_Rye_[PMR]_3 1037 1039_1/4 2L

Crofton_Road_Junction 1038 1041_1/4 3L

Denmark_Hill_[DMK]_1 1039 1041_1/2 2L

Voltaire_Road_Junction_[XVJ] 1044 1047 3L

Latchmere_Junction 1054 1052_1/2 1E

Imperial_Wharf_[IMW]_2 1058_1/2 1054_1/2 3E

West_Brompton_[WBP]_4 1101 1056_1/4 4E

Kensington_Olympia_[KPA]_DML 1105_1/2 1059_3/4 5E

Shepherds_Bush_[SPB]_2 1107 1103 3E

North_Pole_Signal_Vc813 1109_1/2 1105 4E

North_Pole_Junction 1110 1105 5E

Mitre_Bridge_Junction[XMB] 1112 1107_1/2 4E

Willesden_West_Londn_Junction[XWI] 1114 1108_3/4 5E

Wembley_Eur_Frt_Ops_Cntre 1125 1119 6E

 

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