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With Tata Steel expected to announce 800 redundancies at its Scunthope plant on 20 October DB Schenker Rail (UK) Ltd's class 66 (JT42CWR) number 66053 heads northwards, light engine, from Dollands Moor to Doncaster Belmont Yard on Monday 19 October 2015.

66053 in maroon with zigzag gold band was rebranded into DB livery at minimal cost by removing the large letter EWS from the side of the locomotive and applying a DB sticker to the cabside. More typically 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.

66053 (works number 968702-053) 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 January 1999.

According to Realtime Trains the route and timings were; Dollands Moor Sidings ..........0813...................0819.........................6L Saltwood Junction...................0815...................0820........................5L Ashford International UML....0825..................0835 1/2.................10L Maidstone East [MDE] 1..........0851...................0907.......................16L Otford Junction[XOT].............0915 1/2............0934.......................18L Swanley [SAY] 1........................0928..................0943.......................15L St Mary Cray Junction............0933..................0947 3/4................14L Bickley Junction[XLY].............0935..................0948 1/2.................13L Bromley South [BMS]..............0939..................0952 1/4.................13L Shortlands [SRT].......................0941...................0953 1/2.................12L Shortlands Junction................0942..................0954 3/4................12L Voltaire Road Junction...........1000 1/2............1004..........................3L Wandsworth Road [WWR]......1003...................1005 1/2...................2L Latchmere Junction................1008 1/2............1009 1/2....................1L Imperial Wharf [IMW] 2...........1011 1/2..............1010 3/4...................RT West Brompton [WBP] 4.........1013 1/2.............1012 1/4.....................1E Kensington Olympia ..............1016 1/2.............1014 3/4....................1E Shepherds Bush [SPB] 2........1018....................1017...........................RT North Pole Signal Vc813........1020...................1019..........................RT North Pole Junction................1020 1/2............1019...........................1E Mitre Bridge Junction.............1026...................1021..........................4E Willesden Junction 4..............1030/1032........1029/1029...............2E Kensal Green Junction...........1034...................1030 1/2...................3E Brondesbury Park 1.................1038...................1033.........................4E West Hampstead 2..................1040 1/2............1035 3/4..................4E Hampstead Heath 2................1044 1/2............1040.........................4E Gospel Oak [GPO] 2................1046 1/2............1042 1/4...................4E Kentish Town West 2..............1048...................1044.........................4E Camden Road Junction.........1049 1/2............1047..........................2E Holloway South Jn..................1057...................1051..........................6E Finsbury Park [FPK] G.............1100/1111 1/2......1054 1/4/1103..........8E Alexandra Palace 3.................1117.....................1116 1/4.....................RT New Southgate [NSG] 4.........1119 1/2..............1118............................1E Oakleigh Park [OKL] 4............1123 1/2..............1120 1/4....................2E New Barnet [NBA] 4................1125....................1121...........................3E Hadley Wood [HDW] 4...........1127 1/2..............1122 1/2....................4E Potters Bar [PBR] 4..................1131 1/2...............1124 3/4...................6E Brookmans Park [BPK] 4........1134....................1126 3/4...................7E Welham Green [WMG] 2........1135 1/2..............1127 3/4...................7E Hatfield [HAT] 3........................1138 1/2..............1131 3/4....................6E Welwyn Garden City 3............1142 1/2..............1136 1/2....................5E Digswell Junction....................1144/1152...........NoRep/1150............2E Welwyn North [WLW] 2..........1153 1/2..............1151 3/4.....................1E Woolmer Green Jn..................1156....................1153 3/4...................2E Knebworth [KBW] 4.................1157....................1155 1/4.....................1E Stevenage [SVG] 4..................1159 1/2.............1157 3/4....................1E Hitchin [HIT] 2...........................1203...................1202 1/4...................RT Arlesey [ARL] 2.........................1207...................1208.........................RT Biggleswade [BIW] 4...............1210 1/2.............1212 1/4.....................1L Sandy [SDY] 2...........................1213....................1215..........................2L St Neots [SNO] 1.......................1220...................1222 3/4..................2L Huntingdon [HUN] 3...............1227...................1230..........................3L Holme Junction [XHO]...........1235 1/2............1240..........................4L Peterborough [PBO] 4............1243...................1247 1/2....................4L Helpston Junction...................1249 1/2............1254 1/4....................4L Tallington Junction..................1254...................1258 1/4....................4L Stoke Junction.........................1308/1309 1/2..NoRep/1313 3/4......4L Grantham [GRA] 2....................1315 1/2..............1320..........................4L Claypole Loop..........................1324...................1327 3/4....................3L Newark North Gate 1...............1328 1/2.............1332...........................3L Newark F.C. [XNK]...................1329...................1333...........................4L Retford [RET] 2.........................1440 1/2............1351 1/4..................49E Loversall Carr Junction..........1452 1/2............1417 1/4...................35E Doncaster Decoy South Jn...1456...................1422.......................34E