92003 Dollands Moor to Wembley 6B20 eau minerale

DB Schenker Rail (UK) Ltd's class 92 number 92003 named "Beethoven" in two tone railfreight grey livery with large EWS logo and a three 'O' shaped channel tunnel logo works 6B20 from Dollands Moor to Wembley European Freight Operations Centre on 23 February 2015 hauling 27 Tonne (tare du wagon) 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 each pair of vans is used to transport approximately 59,000 litters (59 Tonnes) of Danone bottled mineral water (eau minerale) in crates of PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottles such as Evian imported from Évian-les-Bains in the French Alps and Volvic from the Massif Central. Evian bottled at the SAEME plant Post is transported by train (for a map of the route click here) from Évian-les-Bains to the UK via Publier, (Bellegarde Longeray or Annemasse?), Culoz, Ambérieu-en-Bugey, Bourg-en-Bresse, Louhans, Gevrey-Chambertin, Dijon-Perrigny, Chalons-en-Champagne, Reims, Longueau and Calais-Frethun. For Volvic the route is thought to be from the SEV bottling plant in Riom to the UK via Gannat, Saincaize, Vierzon, Valenton (Paris), Longueau and Calais Frethun. 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 similar 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, by Mattias Catry at Boisleux-au-Mont on 9 September 2012 and by Laurent Knop at Béthisy-St.-Pierre, Picardie in the Oise department on 12 March 2014. 92003 (works number BT1068) was built by the Brush Traction Company at Loughborough in 1996. 92003 is famed for being the last British Rail train to ever run, just as this one traveling from Dollands Moor to Wembley at 23:15 on 21 November 1997.

According to Realtime Trains the route and timings were;

Dollands Moor Sidings .........0707.........0707...........RT

Ashford International UML...0723.........0725...........2L

Maidstone East [MDE] 1.........0750 1/2..0752 1/2....2L

Otford Junction[XOT]............0817 1/2....0817 1/4.....RT

Swanley [SAY] 1.......................0829 1/2..0829..........RT

St Mary Cray Junction...........0835.........0834 1/4....RT

Bickley Junction[XLY]............0836 1/2..0836 1/4....RT

Bromley South [BMS].............0840.........0841 3/4......1L

Shortlands [SRT].....................0842.........0844 1/4....2L

Shortlands Junction...............0843.........0845..........2L

Bellingham [BGM]...................0846 1/2..0848............1L

Nunhead [NHD] 1....................0855.........0856 3/4.....1L

Peckham Rye [PMR] 3...........0859.........0900 1/2......1L

Crofton Road Junction..........0901.........0904 3/4....3L

Denmark Hill [DMK] 1.............0902........0905...........3L

Voltaire Road Junction.........0906 1/2..0910............3L

Latchmere Junction...............0911 1/2....0922 3/4...11L

Imperial Wharf [IMW] 2..........0915 1/2...0925 1/4....9L

West Brompton [WBP] 4.......0918..........0927 3/4...9L

Kensington Olympia 2...........0922........0933 1/2....11L

Shepherds Bush [SPB] 2.......0923.........0936 3/4..13L

North Pole Signal Vc813.......0924 1/2..0939 1/4...14L

North Pole Junction...............0925........0939.........14L

Mitre Bridge Junction............0926 1/2..0941 1/2....15L

Willesden West Londn Jn.....0928.........0943.........15L

Wembley Eur Frt Ops Ctr.....0939.........0944..........5L

 

 

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