File:66201 Dollands Moor to Scunthorpe 4E26 empty steel from Ebange (15802787880).jpg

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DB Schenker Rail (UK) Ltd's class 66 (JT42CWR) number 66201 in English, Welsh and Scottish Railway maroon livery with zigzag gold band, large number and EWS logo is photographed working 4E26 from Dollands Moor sidings to Scunthorpe Redbourne sidings on 10 December 2014. 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. 66201 (works number 968702-201) was built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division, London, Ontario, Canada in 1999 and unloaded from the Heavy Lift Ship MV "Stellanova" at Newport Docks on 1 March 2001.

According to Realtime Trains the route and timings were; Dollands Moor Sidings .........0750...................0749.............................1E Ashford International UML...0804...................0807 1/2......................3L Maidstone East [MDE] 1.........0832 1/2............0830............................2E Otford Junction[XOT]............0859 1/2............0854............................5E Swanley [SAY] 1.......................0911 1/2..............0907 1/2......................3E St Mary Cray Junction...........0921....................0912 3/4......................8E Bickley Junction[XLY]............0925 1/2............0918 3/4......................6E Bromley South [BMS].............0930...................0922 3/4.....................6E Shortlands [SRT].....................0932...................0925............................7E Shortlands Junction...............0933...................0926............................7E Bellingham [BGM]...................0936...................0928 1/2.....................7E Nunhead [NHD] 1....................0950...................0946............................3E Peckham Rye [PMR] 3...........0953 1/2............0949 1/2.....................3E Crofton Road Junction..........0955...................0952 3/4.....................2E Denmark Hill [DMK] 1.............0957...................0953............................4E Voltaire Road Junction.........1002 1/2.............0959............................3E Latchmere Junction...............1012.....................1017 3/4.......................5L Imperial Wharf [IMW] 2..........1015.....................1020 1/4......................5L West Brompton [WBP] 4.......1017.....................1022.............................5L Kensington Olympia 2...........1020....................1023 1/4.......................3L Shepherds Bush [SPB] 2.......1021 1/2..............1024.............................2L North Pole Signal Vc813.......1023 1/2..............1025 3/4......................2L North Pole Junction...............1024....................1025..............................1L Mitre Bridge Junction............1026....................1027 1/4........................1L Willesden Junction 4.............1030/1032.........1030 1/4/1032 3/4....RT Kensal Green Junction..........1034....................1034 1/2......................RT Brondesbury Park [BSP] 1.....1038....................1036 3/4.....................RT West Hampstead 2................1040 1/2.............1039 1/4........................1E Hampstead Heath 2..............1044 1/2..............1043 1/4........................1E Gospel Oak [GPO] 2..............1046 1/2..............1045 1/2......................RT Kentish Town West 2.............1048....................1047 1/2......................RT Camden Road Junction........1049 1/2..............1049............................RT Holloway South Junction.....1058 1/2.............1055.............................3E Finsbury Park [FPK] G............1101 1/2/1111 1/2..1059/1110.....................1E Alexandra Palace [AAP] 3....1117......................1118 1/2..........................1L New Southgate [NSG] 4........1119 1/2................1121 1/4..........................1L Oakleigh Park [OKL] 4...........1123 1/2...............1124 1/4.........................1L New Barnet [NBA] 4...............1125.....................1125 1/4.......................RT Hadley Wood [HDW] 4..........1127 1/2...............1127 1/2.......................RT Potters Bar [PBR] 4.................1131 1/2................1132 1/2.........................1L Brookmans Park [BPK] 4.......1134 1/2...............1134 3/4......................RT Welham Green [WMG] 2.......1136 1/2...............1135 3/4......................RT Hatfield [HAT] 3.......................1140.....................1138 1/4.........................1E Welwyn Garden City 3..........1144 1/2...............1142 3/4........................1E Digswell Junction...................1146 1/2...............1147.............................RT Welwyn North [WLW] 2.........1147.....................1148.............................RT Woolmer Green Junction.....1149.....................1150 1/4.........................1L Knebworth [KBW] 4................1151......................1151 3/4.........................1L Stevenage [SVG] 4.................1154 1/2...............1155 1/4.......................RT Hitchin [HIT] 2..........................1200....................1200 1/2.....................RT Arlesey [ARL] 2........................1204....................1205 3/4.......................1L Biggleswade [BIW] 4..............1207 1/2..............1211 1/4.........................3L Sandy [SDY] 2..........................1210.....................1213 3/4.......................3L St Neots [SNO] 1......................1218.....................1220 1/4.......................2L Huntingdon [HUN] 3..............1225 1/2.............1228 1/4.......................2L Holme Junction [XHO]..........1234 1/2..............1238.............................3L Peterborough [PBO] 4...........1243....................1248 3/4......................5L Helpston Junction..................1249 1/2..............1256 1/2.......................7L Tallington Junction................1254....................1301 1/4........................7L Stoke Junction........................1308/1308 1/2...NoRep/1319 3/4........11L Grantham [GRA] 2..................1315 1/2...............1326 1/2......................11L Claypole Loop.........................1324....................1335 3/4.....................11L Newark North Gate 1.............1328....................1340...........................12L Newark F.C. [XNK]..................1331.....................1341............................10L Retford [RET] 2........................1440 1/2..............1358 1/4....................42E Loversall Carr Junction.........1453 1/2..............1443 1/2.......................9E Belmont Down Yard..............1501/1541............1451/1519..................22E Doncaster [DON] DG.............1550/1556.........1525 1/4/1525 1/2...30E Adwick [AWK] 2......................1605....................1553 3/4.....................11E Thorpe Marsh Junction.........1614.....................1603............................11E Thorne Junction......................1630 1/2..............1616............................14E Crowle [CWE] 2.......................1638 1/2..............1637 1/4........................1E Althorpe [ALP] 1.......................1649....................1644 3/4......................3E Gunhouse Loop......................1652....................1646 1/4.......................5E Scunthorpe [SCU] 1................1658 1/2..............1652.............................6E Scunthorpe West Jn..............1659 1/2.............1653 1/2.......................5E