66063 Dollands Moor to Daventry Jaguar Land Rover 4M38 (from Neuss, Nievenheim, Germany)

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DB Schenker Rail (UK) Ltd's class 66 (JT42CWR) number 66063 in English, Welsh and Scottish Railway maroon livery with zigzag gold band, large number and EWS logo works 4M38 from Dollands Moor to Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal (DIRFT) on 22 October 2014. It was also photographed earlier on route at Shoreham by George Odlum.

 

At Jaguar Land Rover's Whitley plant, Coventry (15 miles from Crick, Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal (DIRFT)) car bodies are constructed using recycled aluminium sheet stamped panels. They claim that this enables them to increase crash safety and reduce weight of their new Range Rover, Range Rover Sport, Jaguar F-TYPE sportscar and Jaguar XJ saloon by approximately 40% (so improving fuel efficiency and lowering emissions). Jaguar Land Rover operate a closed loop vehicle recycling policy at the end of their vehicles life and in future aim to construct up to 75% of their entire vehicle from aluminium when feasible.

 

The Novelis company, spun off from Alcan in 2005, makes aluminium rolled products such as light-metal products for the automotive industry (automotive coil), as well as drinks cans, products for the construction sector and products for manufacturers of consumer electronic goods. Alunorf, the Novelis Deutschland GmbH aluminium rolling and casting facility at Neuss (near Düsseldorf), is the largest aluminium rolling and casting facility in the world, and is operated jointly by Novelis and Norsk Hydro supplied with recycled aluminium delivered from Ditton Foundry in the UK by train (6O16, returning as 6M14). The Ditton Foundry trains share the same International train ID number as 4M38 in France and so are assumed to work the same route. Previously 46455 was photographed by Mattias Catry at Merris on 23 March 2014). Dollands Moor to Nievenheim aluminium trains have also been photographed passing through Houplines (east of Armenières) working from Nievenheim to Dollands Moor on 12 March 2014. Dennis Vansummeren also photographed 46455 between between Wespelaar and the village of Tildonk Belgium, working from Dollands Moor to Nievenheim on 26 April 2014.

 

The automotive coil produced by AluNorf at Neuss, Germany is thought to be taken to Umschlag Container Terminal GmbH by lorry and loaded into 26 Stobart Rail branded containers mounted on 13 French FIA and IFA twin intermodal flat wagons numbered 33 87 4908s. The route to Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal (DIRFT) then involvs 5 different rail companies (International train ID 46455 and 46452) (RheinCargo GmbH & Co KG railway company, DB Schenker Rail (formerly Railion), Corridor Operations Belgium Rail (COBRA), B-Cargo and finally to DB Schenker Rail UK through the Channel Tunnel to Daventry) where Eddie Stobart lorries are thought to take it the last 15 miles to Jaguar Land Rover's Whitley plant. For a map of the route to and from Germany click here.

 

According to JohnS and Bradders numbers of the 13 intermodal twin flat wagons being hauled with Stobart Rail containers mounted on them were 8749086959, 8749086595, 8749084301, 8749086785, 8749085050, 8749084970, 8749086751, 8749087114, 8749086629, 8749087338, 8749084806, 8749084293 and 8749085076.

 

66063 (works number 968702-063) was built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division, London, Ontario, Canada in 1998 and unloaded from the Heavy Lift Ship MV "Fairlift" at Newport Docks on 4 February 1999.

 

According to Realtime Trains the route and timings were;

Dollands Moor Sidings ......................1421..................1415..............6E

Ashford International .........................1433 1/2...........1434.............RT

Maidstone East [MDE] 1......................1501..................1500 3/4......RT

Otford Junction[XOT].........................1524 1/2...........1524.............RT

Swanley [SAY] 1....................................1535 1/2...........1535.............RT

St Mary Cray Junction........................1540 1/2...........1539 1/2.......RT

Bickley Junction[XLY].........................1541 1/2............1540 1/4........1E

Bromley South [BMS]..........................1545.................1542 1/2.......2E

Shortlands [SRT]...................................1547..................1543 1/2.......3E

Shortlands Junction............................1547 1/2...........1544.............3E

Bellingham [BGM]................................1550.................1546 1/2.......3E

Nunhead [NHD] 1.................................1553 1/2...........1553 1/4.......RT

Peckham Rye [PMR] 3.........................1555 1/2...........1555.............RT

Crofton Road Junction.......................1556 1/2...........1557.............RT

Denmark Hill [DMK] 1..........................1558.................1557..............1E

Voltaire Road Junction.......................1602.................1602.............RT

Latchmere Junction............................1612..................1609 1/4.......2E

Imperial Wharf [IMW] 2.......................1615..................1611 1/2.........3E

West Brompton [WBP] 4.....................1617...................1613 1/2........3E

Kensington Olympia ..........................1620.................1614 3/4.......5E

Shepherds Bush [SPB] 2....................1621 1/2............1616 1/2........5E

North Pole Signal Vc813....................1624 1/2...........1618 1/2........5E

North Pole Junction............................1625.................1618..............7E

Mitre Bridge Junction.........................1628.................1621 1/4........6E

Willesden West Londn Junction......1629 1/2...........1623.............6E

Wembley Eur Frt Ops Ctr...................1644 1/2/1721..1632/1721....RT

Wembley Central [WMB] 5................1726..................1724 3/4.......1E

Harrow & Wealdstone [HRW] 5........1732..................1731 1/2........RT

Bushey [BSH] 5.....................................1737..................1738 1/4.........1L

Watford Junction [WFJ] 8..................1738 1/2...........1740...............1L

Kings Langley [KGL] 3.........................1743..................1744...............1L

Apsley [APS] 3......................................1746..................1747................1L

Hemel Hempstead [HML] 3...............1747 1/2............1748 3/4........1L

Bourne End Junction(Herts) [XOE]...1749..................1750...............1L

Berkhamsted [BKM] 3.........................1752..................1752 3/4........1L

Tring [TRI] 3...........................................1756..................1757 1/4.........1L

Cheddington [CED] 3..........................1800.................1802.............2L

Ledburn Junction[XOD].....................1802.................1803 3/4........1L

Leighton Buzzard [LBZ] 3..................1804.................1806 1/2......2L

Bletchley [BLY] 3..................................1811...................1812 1/4..........1L

Denbigh Hall South Junction............1812 1/2............1813..............RT

Denbigh Hall North Junction............1814..................1813 3/4.......RT

Milton Keynes Central [MKC] 3.........1816..................1815..............RT

Wolverton [WOL] 3..............................1818 1/2............1816 3/4........1E

Hanslope Junction[XHN]...................1822.................1820 1/4........1E

Northampton [NMP] 2.........................1833..................1831..............2E

Long Buckby [LBK]..............................1915 1/2............1951 3/4.....36L

Daventry South Junction...................1921 1/2............2000 3/4..39L

 

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