File:66250 Wembley to Dollands Moor 4D33 or 6D33 loaded steel to Ebange France (was 4O28) (16089068592).jpg

66250 WBAT SCUNTHPRS 224O28C722 4 * DOLLANDSM N 4E26

DB Schenker Rail (UK) Ltd's class 66 (JT42CWR) number 66250 dedicated but not named "In memory of Robert K. Romak" for his involvement in the class 66 project painted in English, Welsh and Scottish Railway maroon livery with zigzag gold band, large number and EWS logo works 4D33 or 6D33 from Wembley European Freight Operations Centre to Dollands Moor Locomotive Holding Sidings on 23 December 2014. It was also photographed later on route by Steve Lee at <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/steve_lees_trains/16088237202/">Pluckley</a> and by Nightshiftworker at <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/35502189@N03/16086925672/">Sandling</a>. Having left Scunthorpe almost 1 hour early by this point it is running approximately 6 hours late.

This service is used to transport steel in billet form mounted on FIA 'Multifret' twin intermodal flat wagons for export 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.

Numbers of the wagons being hauled included 33 70 4938 741 4 and 31 70 4938 717 6.

Arriving too late at Dollands Moor to work the 4E26 return journey as planned this was instead taken by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/99279135@N05/16085191561/">66 number 154</a> in its normal slot. Instead 66250 returned northwards later hauling 7L23 with a Transfesa rake from Dollands Moor to Dagenham passing <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/joshtechfission/15477547143/">Ashford</a> as photographed by Joshua Brown and more unusually seen passing West Malling at 14:15 by HSTHoward as this service typically travels up High Speed 1 (HS1).

66250 (works number 968702-250) was built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division, London, Ontario, Canada in 1999 and unloaded from the Heavy Lift Ship MV "Fairload" at Newport Docks on 23 June 2000.

66250 was sold by DB Cargo to GBRf in 2017 and renumbered 66 number 789.

According to Realtime Trains the route and timings for 4O28 were; Scunthorpe Redbourne.........2246 1/2......2152..............................54E Scunthorpe [SCU] 2................2302 1/2......2232 3/4.....................29E Gunhouse Loop.......................2306.............2237 1/2......................28E Althorpe [ALP] 2.......................2307 1/2.......2239............................28E Crowle [CWE] 1.........................2313..............2245 1/2.......................27E Thorne Junction.......................2321 1/2.......2258 3/4.....................22E Doncaster [DON] 3B...............2343.............2331 3/4.........................11E Belmont Down Yard................2349/2351...NoRep/0420...........269L Decoy Nth Junction................2355.............0424..........................269L Doncaster Decoy South Jn...2357.............0426..........................269L Loversall Carr Junction..........2359 1/2......0427..........................267L Retford [RET].............................0013 1/2.......0443..........................269L Newark F.C. [XNK]...................0032 1/2......0459..........................266L Newark North Gate 2..............0033 1/2......0500..........................266L Claypole Loop..........................0041/0049..NoRep/0505...........256L Grantham [GRA] 1.....................0104..............0516 1/4.....................252L Stoke Junction.........................0133..............0523..........................230L Tallington Junction..................0147..............0536 1/2...................229L Helpston Junction...................0150 1/2.......0538 3/4...................228L Peterborough [PBO] 2............0156..............0547 3/4....................231L Connington South Jn..............0207 1/2......0603..........................235L Huntingdon [HUN] 2...............0220............0612 1/2....................232L St Neots [SNO] 3......................0228.............0618 1/4.....................230L Sandy [SDY]..............................0236.............0624 3/4...................228L Biggleswade [BIW] 2...............0241..............0627 1/4....................226L Arlesey [ARL].............................0247 1/2.......0630 3/4...................223L Hitchin [HIT]...............................0256............0635 3/4....................219L Stevenage [SVG] 2..................0302 1/2......0641 1/2......................219L Langley Junction.....................0303 1/2......0642 1/2....................219L Knebworth [KBW] 2.................0305 1/2......0644 1/4.....................218L Woolmer Green Junction......0307.............0645 1/4.....................218L Welwyn North [WLW] 1............0309.............0647 1/2.....................218L Welwyn Garden City 2............0311...............0649 1/4.....................218L Hatfield [HAT]...........................0314..............0651............................217L Brookmans Park [BPK] 2........0318..............0653 3/4....................216L Potters Bar [PBR] 2..................0320.............0655 3/4....................215L Hadley Wood [HDW] 2...........0324 1/2......0657 3/4....................213L New Barnet [NBA] 2................0327.............0658 3/4.....................211L Oakleigh Park [OKL] 2............0328 1/2......0659 1/2....................210L New Southgate [NSG] 2.........0332 1/2......0700 3/4...................208L Alexandra Palace [AAP] 2......0335 1/2......0702 1/2....................207L Hornsey [HRN]..........................0337 1/2.......0703 1/4....................206L Harringay [HGY].......................0338 1/2......0704..........................205L Finsbury Park [FPK] 4..............0341/0344...0704 1/2/0705 1/4...201L Camden Road Junction.........0355.............0725 3/4....................210L

then for 4D33 or 6D33

Wembley Eur Frt Ops Ctr....0945......1008.......23L Willesden West Londn Jn...0958......1021........23L Mitre Bridge Junction..........1000.......1023.......23L North Pole Junction.............1001........1026.......25L Kensington Olympia 3.........1006.......1031 1/2..25L Latchmere Junction.............1014........1041........27L Factory Junction...................1024.......1043........19L Voltaire Road Junction........1025.......1044........19L Denmark Hill [DMK] 2..........1030.......1050.......20L Crofton Road Junction........1032.......1052.......20L Nunhead [NHD] 2.................1035.......1057.......22L Bellingham [BGM].................1040.......1104........24L Shortlands Junction.............1044.......1108........24L Bickley Junction[XLY]..........1051........1116.........25L Petts Wood Junction...........1054.......1118.........24L Orpington [ORP] 3................1058.......1122........24L Sevenoaks [SEV] 3...............1108........1135 1/2..27L Tonbridge [TON] D...............1117 1/2...1143.........25L Paddock Wood D.................1123 1/2..1148........24L Headcorn [HCN]...................1134 1/2..1158........23L