File:Margam sheep 66128 Dollands Moor to Scunthorpe Redbourne Sidings 4E26 empty steel from Ebange (15432560588).jpg

DB Schenker Rail (UK) Ltd's class 66 (JT42CWR) number 66128 in English, Welsh and Scottish Railway maroon livery with zigzag gold band, large number, EWS logo and Margam sheep is photographed working 4E26 from Dollands Moor sidings to Scunthorpe Redbourne sidings on 21 October 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. 66128 (works number 968702-128) 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 18 July 1999.

According to Mister G numbers of the wagons being hauled were 7049381211, 7049381883, 7049387018, 7049383298, 7049387390, 7049387133, 7049381203, 7049387158, 7049381682, 7049380163, 7049380320 and 7049380379.

According to Realtime Trains the route and timings were; Dollands Moor Sidings .......0750.......................0739.......................11E Ashford International ..........0804......................0756 1/4.................7E Maidstone East [MDE] 1.......0832 1/2................0820 1/4...............12E Otford Junction[XOT]...........0859 1/2................0856 1/2.................2E Swanley [SAY] 1.....................0911 1/2..................0910 1/2.................RT St Mary Cray Junction..........0921.......................0916 1/2..................4E Bickley Junction[XLY]..........0925 1/2................0920.......................5E Bromley South [BMS]...........0930......................0926 1/4.................3E Shortlands [SRT]....................0932.......................0928 1/4.................3E Shortlands Junction.............0933.......................0929 1/2.................3E Bellingham [BGM].................0936.......................0933 1/2.................2E Nunhead [NHD] 1...................0950......................0945 3/4................4E Peckham Rye [PMR] 3..........0953 1/2................0949 3/4................3E Crofton Road Junction........0955......................0952 1/2.................2E Denmark Hill [DMK] 1............0957.......................0954.......................3E Voltaire Road Junction........1002 1/2.................0959.......................3E Latchmere Junction.............1012.........................1007.........................4E Imperial Wharf [IMW] 2........1015.........................1010 1/4...................4E West Brompton [WBP] 4......1017.........................1012 3/4..................4E Kensington Olympia 2.........1020.......................1017 1/4....................2E Shepherds Bush [SPB] 2.....1021 1/2..................1021........................RT North Pole Signal Vc813.....1023 1/2.................1023 1/4.................RT North Pole Junction..............1024........................1023.........................1E Mitre Bridge Junction..........1026.......................1025 3/4................RT Willesden Junction 4............1030/1032.............1031/1033 1/4..........1L Kensal Green Junction........1034........................1035 1/2...................1L Brondesbury Park [BSP] 1...1038........................1038........................RT West Hampstead 2...............1040 1/2.................1039 3/4................RT Hampstead Heath 2.............1044 1/2.................1043 1/4...................1E Gospel Oak [GPO] 2.............1046 1/2.................1045.........................1E Kentish Town West 2...........1048........................1047..........................1E Camden Road Junction.......1049 1/2.................1048 3/4................RT Holloway South Junction....1058 1/2.................1057..........................1E 1101 1/2......................................1111 1/2/1101 1/4......1102/9E..................D2 Alexandra Palace [AAP] 3...1117..........................1117 1/2....................RT New Southgate [NSG] 4......1119 1/2...................1120 3/4...................1L Oakleigh Park [OKL] 4.........1123 1/2..................1123 1/2..................RT New Barnet [NBA] 4.............1125.........................1124 1/2..................RT Hadley Wood [HDW] 4.........1127 1/2...................1126...........................1E Potters Bar [PBR] 4...............1131 1/2...................1132.........................RT Brookmans Park [BPK] 4.....1134 1/2...................1134 1/2..................RT Welham Green [WMG] 2.....1136 1/2..................1135 1/2..................RT Hatfield [HAT] 3.....................1140.........................1138...........................1E Welwyn Garden City 3.........1144 1/2...................1141 1/4....................3E Digswell Junction..................1146 1/2..................1148...........................1L Welwyn North [WLW] 2........1147.........................1150.........................2L Woolmer Green Junction....1149.........................1152 1/2...................3L Knebworth [KBW] 4..............1151..........................1154..........................3L Stevenage [SVG] 4...............1154 1/2..................1156 1/2...................2L Hitchin [HIT] 2........................1200.......................1201 1/2....................1L Arlesey [ARL] 2......................1204........................1207 1/4..................3L Biggleswade [BIW] 4............1207 1/2.................1213 1/2...................6L Sandy [SDY] 2........................1210.........................1216..........................6L St Neots [SNO] 1....................1218.........................1222 3/4.................4L Huntingdon [HUN] 3.............1225 1/2.................1230........................4L Holme Junction [XHO].........1234 1/2.................1245.......................10L Peterborough [PBO] 5.........1243........................1300 1/4.................17L Helpston Junction.................1249 1/2.................1308 1/4................18L Tallington Junction...............1254........................1313 1/4..................19L Stoke Junction.......................1308/1308 1/2.......NoRep/1341 1/2...33L Grantham [GRA] 2.................1315 1/2..................1349 3/4................34L Claypole Loop........................1324........................1358.......................34L Newark North Gate 1............1328........................1402 1/2................34L Newark F.C. [XNK]................1331.........................1403......................32L Carlton On Trent Loop.........1338/1424 1/2.......1408/1426...............1L Retford [RET]..........................1440 1/2.................1439 1/2.................RT Loversall Carr Junction........1451 1/2..................1451 1/2..................RT Doncaster [DON] 2WG........1457 1/2/1531 1/2..1503/1504 1/2.....26E Adwick [AWK] 2.....................1536 1/2.................1512 3/4...............23E Thorpe Marsh Junction.......1551 1/2..................1524......................27E Thorne Junction....................1600.......................1546 1/2................13E Crowle [CWE] 2......................1608.......................1602 1/2..................5E Althorpe [ALP] 1.....................1614 1/2..................1609 3/4.................4E Gunhouse Loop.....................1616.........................1611 1/4....................4E