File:66151 Hams Hall to Dollands Moor 4O57 to Domodossola Italy via France and Switzerland (14963108677).jpg

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66151 WBAT HAMHLDBSI 664O57CR03 1 * DOLLANDSM N

DB Schenker Rail (UK) Ltd's class 66 (JT42CWR) number 66151 in English, Welsh and Scottish Railway maroon livery with zigzag gold band, large number and EWS logo. The locomotive was photographed working 4O57, hauling many empty wagons and 16 Unit45.com intermodal containers mounted on IKA 'Megafret' 'low floor' twin intermodal flat wagons containing manufactured goods, drinks and retail produce from Hams Hall Birmingham railfreight terminal and logistics hub (owned and operated by Associated British Ports (ABP) <a href="http://www.hamshallrailterminal.co.uk/Trains/" rel="nofollow">www.hamshallrailterminal.co.uk/Trains/</a>) to Dollands Moor on 3 September 2014.

The loaded wagons continue on through the channel tunnel to Calais Frethun hauled by a class 92, before being taken on by other locomotives through Northern France and Switzerland via Saint-Louis in North-Eastern France, on the German and Swiss borders just north of Basel, to DB Schenker's Domodossola intermodal terminal in the Piedmont region of Northern Italy (see route map <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/99279135/14945660579/">www.flickr.com/photos/99279135/14945660579/</a>). According to DB Schenker the entire journey taking 35 hours. For a photograph of Domodossola yard on 23 July 2013 see Marcel van Eupen picture (<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/rail4marcel2/9532886174/">www.flickr.com/photos/rail4marcel2/9532886174/</a>). luethiro photographed this service between Zug and Kiesen, Bern Switzerland on 13 July 2014 (<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/luethiro/14667634446/">www.flickr.com/photos/luethiro/14667634446/</a>) and returning to Hams Hall on 14 April 2013 (<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/luethiro/10885677203/">www.flickr.com/photos/luethiro/10885677203/</a>), while Mattias Catry photographed it at Spiez, Canton of Berne, Switzerland on 18 May 2014 where a locomotive change occurs (<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/50604235/14854616453/">www.flickr.com/photos/50604235/14854616453/</a>). 66151 (works number 968702-151) was built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division, London, Ontario, Canada in 1998 and unloaded from the Heavy Lift Ship MV "Gajah Borneo" at Newport Docks on 17 August 1999.

In Switzerland the route passes; Bern.............................. Gumligen..................... Thun.............................. Spiez............................. Frutigen........................ Kandersteg.................. Brig................................

before crossing the boarder for Domodossola.
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