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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
80104 departs Swanage with the demonstration freight train during the Swanage Railway Autumn "The Exchanges" gala.
LMS Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 Locomotive 5231 is captured rolling into Wansford station, on the Nene Valley Railway at the head of a demonstration freight train.
6th October 1991.
Colas Rail Freight 70805 leads a rake of ten autoballasters, with 70816 on the rear towards Ashfield, just north of Dunblane with an early running 6K03 Keith Loop to Millerhill Yard on 6th September 2020 after weekend engineering work between Keith and Inverurie.
Collett Class 2251 preserved GWR steam locomotive 3205 was recorded passing through Arley station on the Severn Valley Railway (SVR) with a demonstration freight.
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DB Cargo 66175 "Rail Riders Express" heads away from Abbotswood Junction with the 6V92 1034 Corby BSC to Margam Terminal Complex empties.
My return IR train to Aigle was running late, so I was still sheltering from the rain at Vevey when SBB Cargo Class Ae 6/6 610 420 rolled through with Regional Freight 61262 from Sierre to Lausanne Triage Yard. Yes, it was that dark and wet! Time to retreat back to Aigle for a beer and a good evening meal.
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