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66019 Dollands Moor to Wembley 6B20 eau minerale

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DB Schenker Rail (UK) Ltd's class 66 (JT42CWR) number 66019 in English, Welsh and Scottish Railway maroon livery with zigzag gold band, large number and EWS logo works 6B20 from Dollands Moor to Wembley European Freight Operations Centre on 8 September 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).

 

Wagons being hauled included 23 80 2929 130-5, 23 80 2929 073-7, 23 80 2929 151-1, 23 80 2829 235-3, 23 802829 246-0, 23 80 2829 236-1 and 23 80 2929 080-2.

 

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. 66019 (works number 968702-019) was built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division, London, Ontario, Canada in 1998 and unloaded from the Heavy Lift Ship MV "Fairmast" at Newport Docks on 29 October 1998.

 

According to Realtime Trains the route and timings were;

Dollands Moor Sidings .........0707.........0719............12L

Saltwood Junction.................0709.........0721............12L

Ashford International UML...0723.........0739 1/2....16L

Maidstone East [MDE] 1.........0750 1/2..0811 3/4.....21L

Otford Junction[XOT]............0817 1/2....0841 1/4....23L

Swanley [SAY] 1.......................0829 1/2..0853 1/2...24L

St Mary Cray Junction...........0835.........0858 3/4..23L

Bickley Junction[XLY]............0836 1/2..0903 1/2...27L

Bromley South [BMS].............0840.........0909 1/4...29L

Shortlands [SRT].....................0842.........0912..........29L

Shortlands Junction...............0843.........0915 1/2....32L

Bellingham [BGM]...................0846 1/2..0919..........32L

Nunhead [NHD] 1....................0855.........0927 1/4...32L

Peckham Rye [PMR] 3...........0859.........0929 3/4..30L

Crofton Road Junction..........0901.........0932..........31L

Denmark Hill [DMK] 1.............0902........0933...........31L

Voltaire Road Junction.........0906 1/2..0937..........30L

Wandsworth Road [WWR]....0907 1/2..0938 1/4....31L

Latchmere Junction...............0911 1/2....0944 3/4..33L

Imperial Wharf [IMW] 2..........0915 1/2...0948 1/4...32L

West Brompton [WBP] 4.......0918..........0950 3/4..32L

Kensington Olympia .............0922........0954 1/2...32L

Shepherds Bush [SPB] 2.......0923.........0959 1/4...36L

North Pole Signal Vc813.......0924 1/2..1001 1/4.....36L

North Pole Junction...............0925........1001...........36L

Mitre Bridge Junction............0926 1/2..1003 3/4...37L

Willesden West Ldn Jn..........0928.........1005 1/2....37L

Wembley Eur Frt Ops Ctr.....0939.........1016...........37L

 

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