66102 Hams Hall to Dollands Moor 4O57 then Domodossola Italy via France and Switzerland

Even on a sunny evening it is still a struggle to photograph this working here in the fading light at the moment.

 

DB Schenker Rail (UK) Ltd's class 66 (JT42CWR) number 66102 in English, Welsh and Scottish Railway maroon livery with zigzag gold band, large number and EWS logo with zigzag gold band. 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) to Dollands Moor on 15 April 2015.

 

According to Kamike76 numbers of the wagons being hauled were 6849094089, 6849094733, 8049090558, 8049091077, 6849091937, 6849094287, 6849091580, 6849093545, 8049091952, 6849093685, 8049091580, 6849094808, 8049091598, 6849091895, 6849094006 and 8049091622.

 

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). According to DB Schenker the entire journey taking 35 hours. For a photograph of Domodossola yard taken on 23 July 2013 see Marcel van Eupen picture. luethiro photographed this service between Zug and Kiesen, Bern Switzerland on 13 July 2014 and returning to Hams Hall on 14 April 2013, while Mattias Catry photographed it at Spiez, Canton of Berne, Switzerland on 18 May 2014 where a locomotive change occurs. 66102 (works number 968702-102) was built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division, London, Ontario, Canada in 1998 and unloaded from the Heavy Lift Ship MV "Stellanova" at Newport Docks on 25 April 1999.

 

According to Realtime Trains the route and timings were;

Whitacre Junction[XQW]......1545.........1553 1/4....8L

Nuneaton Abbey Junction...1603.........1610 1/2......7L

Nuneaton [NUN] 7..................1606........1612 1/4.....6L

Brinklow....................................1624 1/2..1624 3/4...RT

High Oaks Junction...............1630.........1627 3/4...2E

Newbold Junction..................1632.........1628 3/4...2E

Rugby Trent Valley Jn...........1634.........1638 3/4...4L

Rugby [RUG] 5.........................1637.........1640...........1L

Hillmorton Junction................1642.........1642 1/4....RT

Daventry North Jn..................1645 1/2..1646 1/4....RT

Daventry South Jn..................1646 1/2..1647 1/2.....1L

Long Buckby [LBK].................1652........1653...........1L

N'hampton Mill Lane Jn.........1707 1/2...1700 1/2....7E

Northampton [NMP] UML.....1710..........1710 1/4.....RT

Hanslope Junction.................1724.........1723 3/4....RT

Wolverton [WOL] 4.................1727 1/2...1727 3/4....RT

Milton Keynes Central 1.........1730.........1730...........RT

Denbigh Hall South Jn..........1732.........1731 3/4.....RT

Bletchley [BLY] 4.....................1733.........1733 1/4.....RT

Leighton Buzzard 4................1740 1/2..1739............1E

Ledburn Junction[XOD]........1743.........1741 1/2......1E

Cheddington [CED] 4.............1745.........1742 3/4...2E

Tring [TRI] 5..............................1750.........1748............1E

Berkhamsted [BKM] 4............1754.........1752 1/4.....1E

Bourne End Junction.............1757.........1754 3/4...2E

Hemel Hempstead 4.............1759.........1756 1/4....2E

Apsley [APS] 4.........................1801 1/2...1758...........3E

Watford Junction 9.................1812..........1809 1/2....2E

Harrow & Wealdstone 6.......1818..........1818 1/2.....RT

Wembley Central 6................1823.........1822 1/2....RT

Willesden Sudbury Jn...........1835.........1827 1/4....7E

Willesden West Ldn Jn..........1842.........1837...........4E

Mitre Bridge Junction............1843 1/2..1838 3/4...4E

North Pole Signal Vc818.......1844 1/2..1840..........4E

North Pole Junction...............1845.........1839 1/2....5E

Shepherds Bush [SPB] 1........1848 1/2..1843 1/2....5E

Kensington Olympia 3...........1850 1/2..1845..........5E

West Brompton [WBP] 3.......1853 1/2..1849 1/4....4E

Imperial Wharf [IMW] 1...........1856.........1851 1/2.....4E

Latchmere Junction...............1859.........1854 1/2....4E

Factory Junction.....................1909 1/2..1909 1/4....RT

Voltaire Road Junction..........1910 1/2...1910 1/2.....RT

Denmark Hill [DMK] 2............1915 1/2...1916...........RT

Crofton Road Junction..........1917 1/2...1918 3/4.....1L

Peckham Rye [PMR] 4...........1918..........1919 3/4.....1L

Nunhead [NHD] 2...................1919 1/2...1921 1/2.....2L

Bellingham [BGM]...................1924 1/2..1929..........4L

Shortlands Junction...............1928.........1932 1/2....4L

Shortlands [SRT].....................1928 1/2..1933 1/2....5L

Bromley South [BMS].............1929 1/2..1934 1/4....4L

Bickley Junction[XLY]............1931 1/2...1936 3/4...5L

St Mary Cray Junction...........1934 1/2..1938 1/2....4L

Swanley [SAY] 2......................1944.........1944 3/4...RT

Otford Junction[XOT]............1954 1/2..1955 1/4....RT

Maidstone East [MDE] 2........2015........2014 3/4...RT

Ashford International 6.........2046.......2045 3/4..RT

Dollands Moor Sidings .........2059.......2101...........2L

 

In Switzerland the route passes;

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

before crossing the boarder for Domodossola.

 

 

Done