File:Cold steel (empty) 66025 Dollands Moor to Scunthorpe 4E26 from Ebange (16151639275).jpg

66025 WBAT DOLLANDSM 894E26CB30 4 * SCUNTHPRS N 0D28

Previously class 66 drivers have complained that "In winter we freeze because the cab heater fails to overcome the chilly draughts". Here a driver demonstrates one way to improve the class 66 cab environment by wearing a warm looking hat while working 4E26 from Dollands Moor to Scunthorpe Redbourne sidings on 30 December 2014. I'm sure he was warmer than me when I took this photo.

DB Schenker Rail (UK) Ltd's class 66 (JT42CWR) number 66025 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 30 December 2014. It was also photographed later on route by Bill Bass at <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/thenorthernheights/16147021702/">Hadley Wood station</a> and <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/thenorthernheights/16147709365/">entering a tunnel</a> the frost having gone from the wagons.

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 (<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98929239@N03/14032630236/in/photostream/">see Andy Pictons photo</a>) to a freight yard at Ebange in Eastern France via Dollands Moor and Calais Fréthun through the Channel Tunnel (<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/99279135@N05/14036377443/">click here for the route</a>). Laurent Knop photographed Euro Cargo Rail's loco number E 186-317 at Valenciennes (Nord - department 59) hauling loaded wagons working from <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/x4644/13687214105/">Calais Fréthun to Ebange</a> on 2 April 2014. Nicolas Tomaszewski also videoed a loaded train passing Beuvrages hauled by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/france-ferroviaire/14112205833/">Euro Cargo Rail's E186 162-4</a>. 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. The wagons which were covered in a layer of frost were numbered 7049380551, 7049387158, 7049387091, 7049381302, 7049387034, 7049381518, 7049387267, 7049380189 and 7049381203 (thanks to Jakko).

66025 (works number 968702-025) was built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division, London, Ontario, Canada in 1998 and unloaded from the Heavy Lift Ship MV "Stellanova" at Newport Docks on 30 November 1998.

According to Realtime Trains the route and timings were; Dollands Moor Sidings .........0750..................0748.........................2E Ashford International UML...0804..................0804........................RT Maidstone East [MDE] 1.........0832 1/2...........0825 1/2..................6E Otford Junction[XOT]............0859 1/2...........0850 3/4.................8E Swanley [SAY] 1.......................0911 1/2.............0901.......................10E St Mary Cray Junction...........0921...................0905 1/4................15E Bickley Junction[XLY]............0925 1/2...........0906......................19E Bromley South [BMS].............0930..................0908 3/4..............20E Shortlands [SRT].....................0932..................0911 1/4.................20E Shortlands Junction...............0933..................0921........................11E Bellingham [BGM]...................0936..................0923 3/4...............12E Nunhead [NHD] 1....................0950.................0929 1/2...............20E Peckham Rye [PMR] 3...........0953 1/2...........0931.......................22E Crofton Road Junction..........0955.................0936 3/4...............18E Denmark Hill [DMK] 1.............0957..................0939......................18E Voltaire Road Junction.........1002 1/2............0946......................16E Latchmere Junction...............1008 1/2............0957........................11E Imperial Wharf [IMW] 2..........1011 1/2..............0959 1/2.................11E West Brompton [WBP] 4.......1013....................1001 3/4..................11E Kensington Olympia .............1016....................1003.......................12E Shepherds Bush [SPB] 2.......1017 1/2..............1004.......................13E North Pole Signal Vc813.......1020..................1006.......................13E North Pole Junction...............1020 1/2............1005 1/2.................15E Mitre Bridge Junction............1026...................1007 1/2.................18E Willesden Junction 4.............1030/1032........1020/1021 3/4.......10E Kensal Green Junction..........1034...................1023 1/2.................10E Brondesbury Park [BSP] 1.....1038...................1025 3/4.................11E West Hampstead 2................1040 1/2............1027 1/2.................12E Hampstead Heath 2..............1044 1/2............1032........................12E Gospel Oak [GPO] 2..............1046 1/2............1037 1/2...................8E Kentish Town West 2.............1048...................1039 1/2...................8E Camden Road Junction........1049 1/2............1041...........................8E Holloway South Junction.....1057...................1054..........................3E Finsbury Park [FPK] G............1100/1111 1/2......1058/1059.............12E Alexandra Palace [AAP] 3....1117.....................1116 3/4....................RT New Southgate [NSG] 4........1119 1/2..............1120..........................RT Oakleigh Park [OKL] 4...........1123 1/2..............1122 3/4...................RT New Barnet [NBA] 4...............1125....................1124...........................RT Hadley Wood [HDW] 4..........1127 1/2..............1125 3/4....................1E Potters Bar [PBR] 4.................1131 1/2...............1129...........................2E Brookmans Park [BPK] 4.......1134 1/2..............1131 1/4......................3E Welham Green [WMG] 2.......1136 1/2..............1133...........................3E Hatfield [HAT] 3.......................1140....................1136...........................3E Welwyn Garden City 3..........1144 1/2..............1139 1/2....................4E Digswell Junction...................1147 1/2..............1146............................1E Welwyn North [WLW] 2.........1148....................1147 3/4....................RT Woolmer Green Junction.....1150....................1150..........................RT Knebworth [KBW] 4................1151 1/2..............1151 1/2.....................RT Stevenage [SVG] 4.................1154 1/2.............1154...........................RT Hitchin [HIT] 2..........................1200..................1157 1/2.....................2E Arlesey [ARL] 2........................1204 1/2............1202.........................2E Biggleswade [BIW] 4..............1208...................1207..........................RT Sandy [SDY] 2..........................1210 1/2.............1210 1/2....................RT St Neots [SNO] 1......................1219....................1218 3/4...................RT Huntingdon [HUN] 3..............1227...................1226 1/2...................RT Holme Junction [XHO]..........1236...................1236 1/2...................RT Peterborough [PBO] 4...........1243...................1246 1/4...................3L Helpston Junction..................1249 1/2............1254..........................4L Tallington Junction................1254...................1258 1/4...................4L Stoke Junction........................1308/1308 1/2..NoRep/1310 3/4.....2L Grantham [GRA] 2..................1314 1/2..............1316............................1L Claypole Loop.........................1324...................1323 3/4...................RT Newark North Gate 1.............1328...................1328..........................RT Newark F.C. [XNK]..................1329...................1329..........................RT Carlton On Trent Loop..........1336/1424 1/2..1334/1419.................5E Retford [RET] 2........................1440 1/2............1432 3/4...................7E Loversall Carr Junction.........1452 1/2............1446 3/4...................5E Doncaster [DON] DG.............1510 1/2.............1510..........................RT Adwick [AWK] 2......................1514....................1515............................1L Thorpe Marsh Junction.........1523...................1524...........................1L Thorne Junction......................1532 1/2............1532..........................RT Crowle [CWE] 2.......................1540 1/2............1540..........................RT Althorpe [ALP] 1.......................1547...................1546..........................RT Gunhouse Loop......................1548 1/2............1547...........................1E Scunthorpe [SCU] 1................1552 1/2............1550 1/2....................1E