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DB Schenker Rail (UK) Ltd's class 66 (JT42CWR) number 66194 in English, Welsh and Scottish Railway maroon livery with zigzag gold band, large number and EWS logo is photographed working 6E26 from Dollands Moor sidings to Scunthorpe Redbourne sidings on 31 January 2015. This service returns empty FIA 'Multifret' twin intermodal flat wagons used to transport steel for export in billet form from Tata Steels Scunthorpe complex on South Humberside in Lincolnshire (see Andy Pictons photo) to a freight yard at Ebange in Eastern France via Dollands Moor and Calais Fréthun through the Channel Tunnel (click here for the route). Laurent Knop photographed Euro Cargo Rail's loco number E 186-317 at Valenciennes (Nord - department 59) hauling loaded wagons working from Calais Fréthun to Ebange on 2 April 2014. Nicolas Tomaszewski also videoed a loaded train passing Beuvrages hauled by Euro Cargo Rail's E186 162-4. Once in Ebange the steel is used at Tata's Hayange rail mill to produce rail for SNCF's LGV Est européenne construction programme to extend the French high-speed rail network. 66194 (works number 968702-194) was built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division, London, Ontario, Canada in 1999 and unloaded from the Heavy Lift Ship MV "Stellanova" at Newport Docks on 15 January 2000.

Wagaons being hauled Included 4 IGAs loaded with rail on the back numbered 8046490005, 804647????, 8046470310 and 8046470443.

According to Realtime Trains the route and timings were; Dollands Moor Sidings .........0911....................0914..........................3L Ashford International UML...0925..................0928 1/2...................3L Maidstone East [MDE] 1.........1002...................0953.........................9E Otford Junction[XOT]............1023...................1014 1/2.....................8E Swanley [SAY] 1.......................1034...................1025..........................8E St Mary Cray Junction...........1039...................1030..........................8E Bickley Junction[XLY]............1042...................1034 1/4....................7E Bromley South [BMS].............1044 1/2.............1039..........................5E Shortlands [SRT].....................1045 1/2............1041 1/4.....................4E Shortlands Junction...............1046...................1042..........................3E Bellingham [BGM]...................1049 1/2............1045..........................4E Nunhead [NHD] 1....................1054 1/2............1051 1/2.....................2E Peckham Rye [PMR] 3...........1056...................1052 3/4...................3E Crofton Road Junction..........1057...................1054 3/4...................2E Denmark Hill [DMK] 1.............1058...................1055..........................3E Voltaire Road Junction.........1102....................1100...........................2E Latchmere Junction...............1122....................1121............................RT Imperial Wharf [IMW] 2..........1126....................1124.............................1E West Brompton [WBP] 4.......1128 1/2..............1126 1/4......................1E Kensington Olympia .............1132....................1128 3/4....................3E Shepherds Bush [SPB] 2.......1133....................1131 1/2.......................1E North Pole Signal Vc813.......1134....................1133 1/2.....................RT North Pole Junction...............1134 1/2..............1133.............................1E Mitre Bridge Junction............1136....................1136............................RT Willesden Junction 4.............1139/1141............1139/1141 1/4.............RT Kensal Green Junction..........1143....................1143 1/4.....................RT Brondesbury Park [BSP] 1.....1147 1/2..............1146 1/2.....................RT West Hampstead 2................1150 1/2.............1148 1/2......................1E Hampstead Heath 2..............1155....................1152 1/2.....................2E Gospel Oak [GPO] 4..............1157....................1155 1/4......................1E Alexandra Palace [AAP] 3....1218 1/2..............1216 3/4.....................1E New Southgate [NSG] 4........1220 1/2............1220 1/4....................RT Oakleigh Park [OKL] 4...........1223...................1223 1/4....................RT New Barnet [NBA] 4...............1224...................1224 1/4....................RT Hadley Wood [HDW] 4..........1226...................1226..........................RT Potters Bar [PBR] 4.................1229...................1228 3/4...................RT Brookmans Park [BPK] 4.......1231 1/2..............1230 3/4...................RT Welham Green [WMG] 2.......1233...................1231 3/4....................RT Hatfield [HAT] 3.......................1235 1/2.............1234 1/2....................RT Welwyn Garden City 3..........1239...................1237 1/2.....................1E Digswell Junction...................1241/1251...........NoRep/1246............5E Welwyn North [WLW] 2.........1252 1/2............1248..........................4E Woolmer Green Junction.....1255...................1250 3/4...................4E Knebworth [KBW] 4................1256 1/2............1252 1/4....................3E Stevenage [SVG] 4.................1259...................1255 1/4....................3E Hitchin [HIT] 2..........................1303 1/2.............1259 1/2....................3E Arlesey [ARL] 2........................1308 1/2............1305..........................3E Biggleswade [BIW] 4..............1313....................1309 1/2....................3E Sandy [SDY] 2..........................1316....................1312 1/2.....................3E St Neots [SNO] 1......................1324...................1320 1/2....................3E Huntingdon [HUN] 3..............1331 1/2..............1328 1/4....................3E Holme Junction [XHO]..........1343/1350.........NoRep/1348 3/4......1E Fletton Junction......................1358...................1356..........................2E Peterborough [PBO] 5...........1400...................1359..........................RT Helpston Junction..................1410....................1409..........................RT Tallington Junction................1414 1/2..............1414 3/4....................RT Stoke Junction........................1436 1/2.............1433...........................3E Grantham [GRA] 2..................1445 1/2.............1440..........................5E Claypole Loop.........................1458/1509 1/2..NoRep/1450..........19E Newark North Gate 1.............1515....................1456 3/4.................18E Newark F.C. [XNK]..................1516....................1459........................17E Carlton On Trent Loop..........1523 1/2/1532..1504/1512..............20E Retford [RET]............................1546...................1526 3/4.................19E Loversall Carr Junction.........1559 1/2............1540 1/2..................18E Doncaster [DON] DG.............1722...................1712 1/4.....................9E Adwick [AWK] 2......................1737 1/2.............1718 1/2...................18E Thorne Junction......................1804 1/2............1756 1/4....................8E Crowle [CWE] 2.......................1813 1/2..............1808 1/2....................5E Althorpe [ALP] 1.......................1820...................1814 3/4....................5E Gunhouse Loop......................1822...................1816...........................5E Scunthorpe [SCU] 1................1826...................1820 1/2....................5E