File:66066 Dollands Moor to Scunthorpe 4E26 empty steel from Ebange (33469207883).jpg

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DB Cargo's class 66 (JT42CWR) number 66066 named "Geoff Spencer" painted in DB Cargo livery is photographed working 4E26 from Dollands Moor sidings to Scunthorpe Redbourne sidings on 26 April 2017. 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. 66066 (works number 968702-066) 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 ..........0810........................0806.........................4E Saltwood Junction..................0813........................0808.........................5E Ashford International .............0825.......................0823..........................1E Charing [CHG]..........................0835.......................0832.........................3E Maidstone East [MDE]............0852.......................0852 1/4...................RT Otford Junction[XOT].............0915 1/2..................0914 3/4...................RT Swanley [SAY]..........................0928.......................0926 1/2...................1E St Mary Cray Junction............0933.......................0932 1/4...................RT Bickley Junction[XLY].............0935.......................0936 1/4.....................1L Bromley South [BMS]..............0939.......................0942..........................3L Shortlands [SRT]......................0941........................0944..........................2L Shortlands Junction................0942.......................0944 3/4...................2L Bellingham [BGM]....................0945.......................0947..........................2L Nunhead [NHD]........................0951........................0954 1/2....................3L Peckham Rye [PMR]................0953.......................0956..........................3L Crofton Road Junction...........0954.......................0958..........................4L Denmark Hill [DMK].................0956.......................0959..........................3L Voltaire Road Junction...........1000 1/2..................1003...........................2L Wandsworth Road ..................1003........................1004 1/2......................1L Latchmere Junction................1008 1/2..................1009 1/2.....................1L Imperial Wharf [IMW]...............1011 1/2....................1012...........................RT West Brompton [WBP]............1013 1/2...................1014...........................RT Kensington Olympia ..............1016 1/2...................1015 1/2.....................RT Shepherds Bush [SPB]...........1018.........................1017...........................RT North Pole Signal Vc813........1020........................1019............................1E North Pole Junction................1020 1/2..................1018 1/2.....................2E Mitre Bridge Junction.............1026........................1021 1/4.....................4E Willesden Junction .................1029 1/2/1031 1/2..1029 1/4/1031 1/2....RT Kensal Green Junction...........1033 1/2..................1033 1/2....................RT Brondesbury Park ..................1037 1/2..................1036...........................1E West Hampstead ....................1040 1/2..................1038 3/4....................1E Hampstead Heath ..................1044 1/2..................1042 1/4.....................1E Gospel Oak [GPO]...................1046 1/2..................1045 1/2....................RT Kentish Town West ................1048........................1047 3/4...................RT Camden Road Junction.........1049 1/2..................1049 1/4....................RT Camden Road [CMD]..............1050........................1049 3/4...................RT Holloway South Jn..................1104.........................1056..........................8E Finsbury Park [FPK].................1107/1111 1/2............1059 1/4/1106..........5E Alexandra Palace ...................1117...........................1115 1/2.......................1E New Southgate [NSG]............1119 1/2....................1118 3/4.....................RT Oakleigh Park [OKL]...............1123 1/2...................1121 3/4......................1E New Barnet [NBA]...................1125.........................1122 3/4....................2E Hadley Wood [HDW]...............1127 1/2...................1124 1/2.....................2E Potters Bar [PBR]......................1131 1/2....................1129 3/4.....................1E Brookmans Park [BPK]...........1134..........................1132 1/4......................1E Welham Green [WMG]............1135 1/2...................1133 1/4.....................2E Hatfield [HAT]...........................1138 1/2...................1135 3/4....................2E Welwyn Garden City ..............1142 1/2...................1138 1/2.....................4E Digswell Junction....................1144/1152................NoRep/1151...............1E Welwyn North [WLW]..............1153 1/2...................1152 1/2......................1E Woolmer Green Jn..................1156.........................1155 1/4.....................RT Knebworth [KBW]....................1157..........................1157...........................RT Stevenage [SVG].....................1159 1/2...................1159 1/2.....................RT Hitchin [HIT]..............................1203........................1203 3/4...................RT Arlesey [ARL]............................1207........................1209............................1L Biggleswade [BIW]..................1210 1/2...................1212 3/4.....................2L Sandy [SDY]..............................1213.........................1215............................2L St Neots [SNO].........................1220........................1221 1/4.......................1L Huntingdon [HUN]...................1227........................1227 1/2....................RT Holme Junction [XHO]...........1235 1/2..................1236 1/4....................RT Peterborough [PBO]...............1243........................1246 1/2.....................3L Helpston Junction...................1249 1/2..................1254 1/2.....................5L Tallington Junction.................1254........................1259 3/4....................5L Stoke Junction.........................1308/1309 1/2.......NoRep/1317..............7L Grantham [GRA].......................1315 1/2...................1325 1/4.....................9L Claypole Loop..........................1324........................1334 1/4...................10L Newark North Gate ................1328 1/2..................1338 1/2...................10L Newark F.C. [XNK]...................1329........................1340..........................11L Carlton On Trent Loop...........1336/1424 1/2........1344/1447...............22L Retford [RET].............................1440 1/2..................1502 3/4.................22L Loversall Carr Junction..........1452 1/2..................1539........................46L Doncaster Decoy Sth Jn........1456........................1547.........................51L Decoy Nth Junction................1457.........................1548.........................51L Doncaster [DON].....................1523........................1602 1/4..................39L Hatfield & Stainforth ...............1544 1/2..................1613 1/2...................29L Thorne Junction.......................1549 1/2..................1615 1/2...................26L Crowle [CWE]............................1557 1/2..................1624........................26L Althorpe [ALP]..........................1604........................1630 1/2..................26L Gunhouse Loop.......................1605 1/2..................1632........................26L Scunthorpe [SCU]....................1609 1/2..................1635 1/2..................26L Scunthorpe West Jn...............1610 1/2...................1636 1/2..................25L