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66065 Dollands Moor to Daventry 4M38 for Jaguar Land Rover

DB Schenker Rail (UK) Ltd's class 66 (JT42CWR) number 66065 in maroon with zigzag gold band rebranded into DB livery at minimal cost by removing the large letter EWS from the side of the locomotive and applying a DB sticker to the cabside works 4M38 from Dollands Moor to Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal (DIRFT) on 25 February 2015.

 

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 Stobart Rail branded containers mounted on 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.

 

66065 (works number 968702-065) 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 .............1447.........1508...........21L

Ashford International DML........1459 1/2..1523 1/4...23L

Maidstone East [MDE] 1.............1524.........1547 1/2....23L

Otford Junction[XOT].................1547 1/2...1611 1/4.....23L

Swanley [SAY] 1...........................1558 1/2..1625 1/4...26L

St Mary Cray Junction................1606 1/2..1630 1/4...23L

Bickley Junction[XLY]................1607 1/2..1631...........23L

Bromley South [BMS].................1609........1633 3/4...24L

Shortlands [SRT]..........................1610.........1634 3/4...24L

Shortlands Junction....................1610 1/2...1636..........25L

Bellingham [BGM].......................1613..........1638 3/4...25L

Nunhead [NHD] 1.........................1620 1/2..1646 1/2...26L

Peckham Rye [PMR] 3................1624.........1648 3/4...25L

Crofton Road Junction...............1625 1/2..1650 3/4..25L

Denmark Hill [DMK] 1..................1627.........1652..........25L

Voltaire Road Junction..............1631..........1656..........25L

Latchmere Junction....................1636 1/2..1705..........28L

Imperial Wharf [IMW] 2...............1639 1/2..1708..........28L

West Brompton [WBP] 4............1642.........1710 3/4....29L

Kensington Olympia ..................1645.........1715 1/4.....30L

Shepherds Bush [SPB] 2...........1647.........1718 1/2......31L

North Pole Signal Vc813............1650 1/2..1720 3/4...30L

North Pole Junction....................1651..........1720 1/2...29L

Mitre Bridge Junction.................1652 1/2..1723 3/4....31L

Willesden West Londn Jn..........1654.........1725 1/2....31L

Wembley Central [WMB] 5........1725.........1853..........88L

Harrow & Wealdstone 5............1731 1/2....1859..........87L

Watford Junction [WFJ] 8..........1738.........1907..........89L

Apsley [APS] 3..............................1745 1/2...1915 3/4...90L

Hemel Hempstead [HML] 3......1747.........1919............91L

Bourne End Junction(Herts) .....1748 1/2...1920 1/2...92L

Berkhamsted [BKM] 3................1751 1/2...1925 1/4...94L

Tring [TRI] 3...................................1756.........1930 3/4..94L

Cheddington [CED] 3.................1759 1/2..1934 3/4...95L

Ledburn Junction[XOD].............1801 1/2...1935 3/4...94L

Leighton Buzzard [LBZ] 3..........1803 1/2..1938..........94L

Bletchley [BLY] 3.........................1811...........1943 1/4....92L

Denbigh Hall South Junction...1812 1/2...1943 3/4....91L

Denbigh Hall North Junction...1814..........1944 1/2...90L

Milton Keynes Central 3............1816..........1945 3/4..89L

Wolverton [WOL] 3......................1818 1/2...1947..........88L

Hanslope Junction[XHN]...........1822.........1951 1/4....89L

Northampton [NMP] 2................1833.........2007 1/2..94L

Long Buckby [LBK]......................1857.........2022 1/2..85L

Daventry South Junction...........1903.........2032 1/2..89L

 

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