66075 Dollands Moor to Wembley 6B20 eau minerale

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DB Schenker Rail (UK) Ltd's class 66 (JT42CWR) number 66075 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 10 November 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. 66075 (works number 968702-075) was built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division, London, Ontario, Canada in 1998 and unloaded from the Heavy Lift Ship MV "Stellamare" at Newport Docks on 1 March 1999.

 

According to Realtime Trains the route and timings were;

Dollands Moor Sidings .........0707.........0810..........63L

Saltwood Junction.................0709.........0811...........62L

Ashford International UML...0723.........0827 1/2...64L

Maidstone East [MDE] 1.........0750 1/2..0859.........68L

Otford Junction[XOT]............0817 1/2....0940 3/4..83L

Swanley [SAY] 1.......................0829 1/2..0954.........84L

St Mary Cray Junction...........0835.........0959 1/2...84L

Bickley Junction[XLY]............0836 1/2..1000 1/4....83L

Bromley South [BMS].............0840.........1003 1/2....83L

Shortlands [SRT].....................0842.........1005..........82L

Shortlands Junction...............0843.........1005 1/2....82L

Bellingham [BGM]...................0846 1/2..1008 1/4.....81L

Nunhead [NHD] 1....................0855.........1018 1/4.....83L

Peckham Rye [PMR] 3...........0859.........1020 1/4.....81L

Crofton Road Junction..........0901.........1022 1/2.....81L

Denmark Hill [DMK] 1.............0902........1023 1/2.....81L

Voltaire Road Junction.........0906 1/2..1028...........81L

Wandsworth Road [WWR]....0907 1/2..1029...........81L

Latchmere Junction...............0911 1/2....1035 3/4...84L

Imperial Wharf [IMW] 2..........0915 1/2...1039 1/2....84L

West Brompton [WBP] 4.......0918..........1041 3/4....83L

Kensington Olympia .............0922........1045..........83L

Shepherds Bush [SPB] 2.......0923.........1047...........84L

North Pole Signal Vc813.......0924 1/2..1048 3/4...84L

North Pole Junction...............0925........1048..........83L

Mitre Bridge Junction............0926 1/2..1051 1/4.....84L

Willesden West Ldn Jn..........0928.........1053 1/4....85L

Wembley Eur Frt Ops Ctr.....0939.........1103...........84L

 

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