File:66060 Dollands Moor to Scunthorpe 6E26 empty steel from Ebange (16820749198).jpg

DB Schenker Rail (UK) Ltd's class 66 (JT42CWR) number 66060 in English, Welsh and Scottish Railway maroon livery with zigzag gold band, large number and EWS logo is photographed working 6E26 from Dollands Moor sidings to Scunthorpe Redbourne sidings on 2 April 2015. 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>).

According to HE TSC numbers of the wagons being hauled were 7049383108 FIA, 7049380122 FIA, 7049383019 FIA, 7049380957 FIA, 7049385048 FIA, 7049381203 FIA, 7049380072 FIA, 7049387218 FIA, 7049387228 FIA, 7049387358 FIA, 7049385111 FIA, 7049385388 FIA, 8047381020 IGA, 8047381095 IGA, 8047381277 IGA, <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/99279135@N05/16386104234">8047381087 IGA</a>, <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/99279135@N05/16821007840">8047381111 IGA</a>, 8047381301 IGA, <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/99279135@N05/17007634831">8047381238 IGA</a>, 8047381293 IGA, <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/99279135@N05/17007103572">8047381434 IGA</a> and <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/99279135@N05/16822317359">8047381038 IGA</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.

66060 (works number 968702-060) 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 5 February 1999.

According to Realtime Trains the route and timings were; Dollands Moor Sidings .........0813...................0813..........................RT Ashford International UML...0825..................0828..........................3L Maidstone East [MDE] 1.........0851...................0851 3/4...................RT Otford Junction[XOT]............0915 1/2............0913 3/4....................1E Swanley [SAY] 1.......................0928..................0925.........................2E St Mary Cray Junction...........0933..................0930 1/4...................2E Bickley Junction[XLY]............0935..................0934 1/2...................RT Bromley South [BMS].............0939..................0938 3/4..................RT Shortlands [SRT].....................0941...................0940 1/2...................RT Shortlands Junction...............0942..................0941 3/4...................RT Bellingham [BGM]...................0945..................0944 3/4..................RT Nunhead [NHD] 1....................0951...................0952...........................1L Peckham Rye [PMR] 3...........0953..................0953 1/4...................RT Crofton Road Junction..........0954..................0955 1/4.....................1L Denmark Hill [DMK] 1.............0956..................0955 1/2...................RT Voltaire Road Junction.........1000 1/2............1001...........................RT Latchmere Junction...............1008 1/2............1008..........................RT Imperial Wharf [IMW] 2..........1011 1/2..............1010 1/2.....................RT West Brompton [WBP] 4.......1013 1/2.............1012 3/4....................RT Kensington Olympia .............1016 1/2.............1016...........................RT Shepherds Bush [SPB] 2.......1018....................1018 3/4....................RT North Pole Signal Vc813.......1020...................1020 3/4...................RT North Pole Junction...............1020 1/2............1020 1/2....................RT Mitre Bridge Junction............1026...................1023..........................2E Willesden Junction 4.............1030/1032........1029 1/2/1031 1/2....RT Kensal Green Junction..........1034...................1033 1/2....................RT Brondesbury Park [BSP] 1.....1038...................1036...........................1E West Hampstead 2................1040 1/2............1038 1/4....................2E Hampstead Heath 2..............1044 1/2............1041............................3E Gospel Oak [GPO] 2..............1046 1/2............1042 3/4....................3E Kentish Town West 2.............1048...................1045...........................3E Camden Road Junction........1049 1/2............1047...........................2E Holloway South Junction.....1057...................1054...........................3E Finsbury Park [FPK] G............1100/1111 1/2......1058 1/2/1100..........11E Alexandra Palace [AAP] 3....1117.....................1117.............................RT New Southgate [NSG] 4........1119 1/2..............1120 1/2.....................RT Oakleigh Park [OKL] 4...........1123 1/2..............1123 1/4.....................RT New Barnet [NBA] 4...............1125....................1124 1/4.....................RT Hadley Wood [HDW] 4..........1127 1/2..............1125 3/4.....................1E Potters Bar [PBR] 4.................1131 1/2...............1128 1/2.....................2E Brookmans Park [BPK] 4.......1134 1/2..............1130 1/4......................4E Welham Green [WMG] 2.......1136 1/2..............1131 1/2.......................4E Hatfield [HAT] 3.......................1140....................1134 1/2.....................5E Welwyn Garden City 3..........1144 1/2..............1139 1/2......................4E Digswell Junction...................1147 1/2..............1147............................RT Welwyn North [WLW] 2.........1148....................1148 3/4....................RT Woolmer Green Junction.....1150....................1151 1/4........................1L Knebworth [KBW] 4................1151 1/2..............1153.............................1L Stevenage [SVG] 4.................1154 1/2..............1155 3/4......................1L Hitchin [HIT] 2..........................1200...................1201 1/4.......................1L Arlesey [ARL] 2........................1204 1/2............1208 1/4.....................3L Biggleswade [BIW] 4..............1208...................1212 3/4.....................4L Sandy [SDY] 2..........................1210 1/2.............1216............................5L St Neots [SNO] 1......................1219....................1224 1/4.....................5L Huntingdon [HUN] 3..............1227...................1232...........................5L Holme Junction [XHO]..........1236...................1244 1/2.....................8L Peterborough [PBO] 5...........1243...................1300 1/2...................17L Helpston Junction..................1249 1/2............1309.........................19L Tallington Junction................1254...................1314 1/2...................20L Stoke Junction........................1308/1309 1/2..NoRep/1336 3/4...27L Grantham [GRA] 2..................1315 1/2..............1345........................29L Claypole Loop.........................1324...................1355 1/4...................31L Newark North Gate 1.............1328...................1400 3/4.................32L Newark F.C. [XNK]..................1329...................1402........................33L Carlton On Trent Loop..........1336/1424 1/2..1407/1427..................2L Retford [RET]............................1440 1/2............1442 1/4......................1L Loversall Carr Junction.........1452 1/2............1456 1/2.....................4L Doncaster [DON] DG.............1508 1/2............1513 1/2......................5L Adwick [AWK] 2......................1525 1/2............1527 1/4......................1L Thorpe Marsh Junction.........1548...................1540..........................8E Thorne Junction......................1608 1/2............1552 1/4...................16E Crowle [CWE] 2.......................1618 1/2.............1609..........................9E Althorpe [ALP] 1.......................1625...................1616...........................8E Gunhouse Loop......................1626 1/2............1617 1/4.....................9E