File:66005 Dollands Moor to Wembley 6B20 (19969032891).jpg
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Despite reports of "Train Squatters" on freight trains by the Sun newspaper and the BBC reporting imigransts having caused closure of the Chanel Tunnel again this morning the bottled water train makes it through and arrives on time as usual. 66005 WBAT DOLLANDSM 896B20CA24 4 * WEMBLEYYD N 5D A DB Schenker Rail (UK) Ltd's class 66 (JT42CWR) number 66005 in English, Welsh and Scottish Railway maroon livery with zigzag gold band, large number and EWS logo works 6B20 from Dollands Moor to Wembley European Freight Operations Centre on 24 July 2015 hauling 27 Tonne (tare du wagon) G.E. Rail Services owned IZA (GE117CT Hfirrs 3) semi-perminantly coupled 4-wheeled CARGOWAGGON vans with shared running numbers built by Duewag. Having started out in France and passed through the channel tunnel each pair of vans is used to transport approximately 59,000 litters (59 Tonnes) of Danone bottled mineral water (<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/99279135@N05/14519696692">eau minerale</a>) in crates of PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottles such as Evian imported from Évian-les-Bains in the French Alps and <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/99279135@N05/15096320948/">Volvic</a> from the Massif Central. Evian bottled at the SAEME plant Post is transported by train (for a map of the route <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/99279135@N05/15383012296/">click here</a>) from Évian-les-Bains to the UK via Publier, (Bellegarde Longeray or Annemasse?), Culoz, Ambérieu-en-Bugey, Bourg-en-Bresse, Louhans, Gevrey-Chambertin, Dijon-Perrigny, Chalons-en-Champagne, Reims, Longueau and Calais-Frethun. For Volvic the <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/99279135@N05/15383012296/">route</a> is thought to be from the SEV bottling plant in Riom to the UK via Gannat, Saincaize, Vierzon, Valenton (Paris), Longueau and Calais Frethun. From Wembley this train continues on route to Crick under headcode 6B41 and is ultimately unloaded at a distribution warehouse at Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal (DIRFT). A similar set of cargowaggon vans was photographed by Nicolas Villenave on 9 May 2014 returning empty passing through Écaillon (department Nord) on their way from <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/119085393@N02/14147711054/">Calais Frethun to Culoz railway junction</a> in the Ain department in the Rhône-Alpes region of France, by Mattias Catry at <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/50604235@N05/7969763184/">Boisleux-au-Mont</a> on 9 September 2012 and by Laurent Knop at <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/x4644/13156920803/">Béthisy-St.-Pierre, Picardie</a> in the Oise department on 12 March 2014. 66005 (works number 968702-005) was built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division, London, Ontario, Canada in 1998 and unloaded from the heavy lift ship MV "Stellamare" at Newport Docks (<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/91851827/8659480111/">www.flickr.com/photos/91851827/8659480111/</a>) on 27 August 1998. According to Realtime Trains the route and timings were; Dollands Moor Sidings .........0707.........0706..........1E Saltwood Junction.................0709.........0707..........2E Ashford International UML...0723.........0722 1/2...RT Maidstone East [MDE] 1.........0750 1/2..0752..........1L Otford Junction[XOT]............0817 1/2....0819 1/4.....1L Swanley [SAY] 1.......................0829 1/2..0831 3/4...2L St Mary Cray Junction...........0835.........0837 1/4...2L Bickley Junction[XLY]............0836 1/2..0838..........1L Bromley South [BMS].............0840.........0840 3/4..RT Shortlands [SRT].....................0842.........0842 1/2...RT Shortlands Junction...............0843.........0843.........RT Bellingham [BGM]...................0846 1/2..0845 1/2...RT Nunhead [NHD] 1....................0855.........0855 1/4...RT Peckham Rye [PMR] 3...........0859.........0857 1/2....1E Crofton Road Junction..........0901.........0901 1/4....RT Denmark Hill [DMK] 1.............0902........0902 1/2...RT Voltaire Road Junction.........0906 1/2..0907.........RT Latchmere Junction...............0911 1/2....0913 1/2....2L Imperial Wharf [IMW] 2..........0915 1/2...0916 1/4....RT West Brompton [WBP] 4.......0918..........0918 1/2....RT Kensington Olympia .............0922........0922 1/4...RT Shepherds Bush [SPB] 2.......0923.........0926 1/4....3L North Pole Signal Vc813.......0924 1/2..0928 1/4....3L North Pole Junction...............0925........0928..........3L Mitre Bridge Junction............0926 1/2..0930 1/2...4L Willesden West Ldn Jn..........0928.........0932.........4L Wembley Eur Frt Ops Ctr.....0939.........0942..........3L |
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