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DB Schenker Rail (UK) Ltd's class 66 (JT42CWR) number 66206 in English, Welsh and Scottish Railway maroon livery with zigzag gold band, large number and EWS logo is photographed working 4E26 from Dollands Moor sidings to Scunthorpe Redbourne sidings on 3 February 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.

Wagons being hauled included 31 70 4938 224-3.

66206 (works number 968702-206) was built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division, London, Ontario, Canada in 1999 and unloaded from the Heavy Lift Ship MV "Stellaprima" at Newport Docks on 23 March 2000.

According to Realtime Trains the route and timings were; Dollands Moor Sidings .........0813...................0818...........................5L Ashford International UML...0825..................0832..........................7L Maidstone East [MDE] 1.........0851...................0855 1/2...................4L Otford Junction[XOT]............0915 1/2............0915 1/2...................RT Swanley [SAY] 1.......................0928..................0927 3/4..................RT St Mary Cray Junction...........0933..................0933.........................RT Bickley Junction[XLY]............0935..................0938 1/4....................3L Bromley South [BMS].............0939..................0944..........................5L Shortlands [SRT].....................0941...................0947 1/4....................6L Shortlands Junction...............0942..................0949 1/4...................7L Bellingham [BGM]...................0945..................0952 1/2...................7L Nunhead [NHD] 1....................0951...................1000 1/2....................9L Peckham Rye [PMR] 3...........0953..................1002...........................9L Crofton Road Junction..........0954..................1004 1/4..................10L Denmark Hill [DMK] 1.............0956..................1004 1/2....................8L Voltaire Road Junction.........1000 1/2............1009...........................8L Latchmere Junction...............1008 1/2............1017 3/4.....................9L Imperial Wharf [IMW] 2..........1011 1/2..............1021............................9L West Brompton [WBP] 4.......1013 1/2.............1023...........................9L Kensington Olympia .............1016 1/2.............1024 1/4.....................7L Shepherds Bush [SPB] 2.......1018....................1025...........................7L North Pole Signal Vc813.......1020...................1027...........................7L North Pole Junction...............1020 1/2............1027...........................6L Mitre Bridge Junction............1026...................1028 3/4....................2L Willesden Junction 4.............1030/1032........1031 1/4/1032 1/4....RT Kensal Green Junction..........1034...................1034 1/4....................RT Brondesbury Park [BSP] 1.....1038...................1036 1/2.....................1E West Hampstead 2................1040 1/2............1039 1/4......................1E Hampstead Heath 2..............1044 1/2............1043............................1E Gospel Oak [GPO] 2..............1046 1/2............1046 1/2...................RT Kentish Town West 2.............1048...................1048 1/2...................RT Camden Road Junction........1049 1/2............1050..........................RT Holloway South Junction.....1057...................1056............................1E Finsbury Park [FPK] G............1100/1111 1/2......1100 1/4/1101...........10E Alexandra Palace [AAP] 3....1117.....................1119.............................2L New Southgate [NSG] 4........1119 1/2..............1122 1/4......................2L Oakleigh Park [OKL] 4...........1123 1/2..............1125 1/4.......................1L New Barnet [NBA] 4...............1125....................1126.............................1L Hadley Wood [HDW] 4..........1127 1/2..............1127 3/4....................RT Potters Bar [PBR] 4.................1131 1/2...............1130 1/2.....................RT Brookmans Park [BPK] 4.......1134 1/2..............1132 1/2.......................1E Welham Green [WMG] 2.......1136 1/2..............1133 3/4.....................2E Hatfield [HAT] 3.......................1140....................1136 1/4......................3E Welwyn Garden City 3..........1144 1/2..............1139 1/2......................4E Digswell Junction...................1147 1/2..............1147...........................RT Welwyn North [WLW] 2.........1148....................1148 1/2.....................RT Woolmer Green Junction.....1150....................1151 1/4........................1L Knebworth [KBW] 4................1151 1/2..............1152 3/4......................1L Stevenage [SVG] 4.................1154 1/2..............1155 1/2......................1L Hitchin [HIT] 2..........................1200...................1200 3/4..................RT Arlesey [ARL] 2........................1204 1/2............1205 3/4....................1L Biggleswade [BIW] 4..............1208...................1209 3/4....................1L Sandy [SDY] 2..........................1210 1/2.............1212 1/4.......................1L St Neots [SNO] 1......................1219....................1220 1/4.....................1L Huntingdon [HUN] 3..............1227...................1228 1/4......................1L Holme Junction [XHO]..........1236...................1244 3/4....................8L Peterborough [PBO] 5...........1243...................1301..........................18L Helpston Junction..................1249 1/2............1310 1/4...................20L Tallington Junction................1254...................1315 1/2....................21L Stoke Junction........................1308/1309 1/2..NoRep/1334 3/4...25L Grantham [GRA] 2..................1315 1/2..............1343 3/4.................28L Claypole Loop.........................1324...................1352 3/4.................28L Newark North Gate 1.............1328...................1357 1/4..................29L Newark F.C. [XNK]..................1329...................1358........................29L Carlton On Trent Loop..........1336/1424 1/2..1403/1421..................3E Retford [RET]............................1440 1/2............1436 1/2.....................3E Loversall Carr Junction.........1452 1/2............1448 1/2.....................3E Doncaster [DON] DG.............1508 1/2............1519..........................10L Adwick [AWK] 2......................1525 1/2............1526 1/4....................RT Thorpe Marsh Junction.........1548...................1536.........................12E Thorne Junction......................1608 1/2............1545 3/4.................22E Crowle [CWE] 2.......................1618 1/2.............1559.........................19E Althorpe [ALP] 1.......................1625...................1605 3/4.................18E Gunhouse Loop......................1626 1/2............1607.........................19E Scunthorpe [SCU] 1................1630 1/2............1614 1/4....................16E