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92041 chilled bottled water 6B20
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DB Schenker Rail (UK) Ltd’s class 92 number 92041 named "Vaughan Williams" functions 6B20 from Dollands Moor to Wembley European Freight Operations Centre in the frost on 30 December 2014 hauling 27 Tonne (tare du wagon) G.E. Rail Solutions owned IZA (GE117CT Hfirrs three) semi-perminantly coupled four-wheeled CARGOWAGGON vans with shared running numbers constructed by Duewag. Getting began out in France and passed by means of the channel tunnel every pair of vans is used to transport around 59,000 litters (59 Tonnes) of Danone bottled mineral water (eau minerale) in crates of PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottles such as Evian imported from Évian-les-Bains in the French Alps and Volvic from the Massif Central. Evian bottled at the SAEME plant Post is transported by train (for a map of the route click here) from Évian-les-Bains to the UK through Publier, (Bellegarde Longeray or Annemasse?), Culoz, Ambérieu-en-Bugey, Bourg-en-Bresse, Louhans, Gevrey-Chambertin, Dijon-Perrigny, Chalons-en-Champagne, Reims, Longueau and Calais-Frethun. For Volvic the route is thought to be from the SEV bottling plant in Riom to the UK via Gannat, Saincaize, Vierzon, Valenton (Paris), Longueau and Calais Frethun. From Wembley this train continues on route to Crick under headcode 6B41 and is in the end unloaded at a distribution warehouse at Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal (DIRFT).
A equivalent set of cargowaggon vans was photographed by Nicolas Villenave on 9 Might 2014 returning empty passing by means of Écaillon (department Nord) on their way from Calais Frethun to Culoz railway junction in the Ain division in the Rhône-Alpes area of France, by Mattias Catry at Boisleux-au-Mont on 9 September 2012 and by Laurent Knop at Béthisy-St.-Pierre, Picardie in the Oise department on 12 March 2014.
92041 (works number BT1098) was assembled by the BRUSH Traction Company at Loughborough in 1995 from sub-contracted elements (e.g. Procor UK bodyshell, Asea Brown Boveri (ABB Rail) traction converters and GTO (Gate Turn-Off thyristor) controlled by way of the MICAS-S2 electronics system, pneumatically operated retractable third rail collector footwear made by Brecknell Willis and the engraved aluminium BRUSH traction performs plates made by J M Ranger Restricted of Leicester). For track to train communications class 92s had been fitted with the Siemens International Train Radio (ITR) "chameleon" system which could automatically adjust over to match neighborhood ground systems e.g. at international boarders and allowed the driver to select from a variety of language settings. All non-metallic components of the class 92 were either certified for Eurotunnels fire regulations by the companies or exactly where suppliers could not offer this details items such as the divers seat (made by Chapman Seating Limited) and plastic push buttons had been fire tested by Brush.
According to Realtime Trains the route and timings were
Dollands Moor Sidings ………0646………0645……….1E
Ashford International UML…0700………0709………9L
Maidstone East [MDE] 1………0733 1/2…0738 3/4…5L
Otford Junction[XOT]…………0818……….0827……….9L
Swanley [SAY] 1…………………..0830………0839………9L
St Mary Cray Junction………..0835………0844 1/4…9L
Bickley Junction[XLY]…………0836 1/2..0844 three/4..8L
Bromley South [BMS]………….0840………0847 1/4….7L
Shortlands [SRT]…………………0842………0848 1/4…6L
Shortlands Junction……………0843………0849………6L
Bellingham [BGM]……………….0846 1/2..0851 1/two….5L
Nunhead [NHD] 1………………..0855………0857 3/four..2L
Peckham Rye [PMR] three………..0859………0859 1/2…RT
Crofton Road Junction……….0901………0901 1/two….RT
Denmark Hill [DMK] 1………….0902……..0902………RT
Voltaire Road Junction………0906 1/2..0906………RT
Latchmere Junction……………0911 1/2….0912 1/2…..1L
Imperial Wharf [IMW] 2……….0915 1/2…0914 1/2….RT
West Brompton [WBP] 4…….0918……….0916 1/four…..1E
Kensington Olympia ………….0922……..0917 1/two….4E
Shepherds Bush [SPB] two…….0923………0918 1/4….4E
North Pole Signal Vc813…….0924 1/2..0920………4E
North Pole Junction……………0925……..0920………5E
Mitre Bridge Junction…………0926 1/two..0922 three/4..3E
Willesden West Londn Jn…..0928………0927 1/2…RT
Wembley Eur Frt Ops Ctr…..0939………0940……….1L
Wrecked Class 70
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Photo and info sourced from Railway magazine.
A brand new Class 70 locomotive that has never turned a wheel in income-earning service is nearly specific to be written off after being dropped from a crane during unloading at Newport docks on January 5th.
No.70012 was badly bent in the incident and anticipated to be sent back to its American manufacturers, Basic Electric. It is understood that work has already started on developing a replacement.
The £2 million loco was the final of 5 Class 70s to be lifted from the hold of the ship, the “Beluga Endurance”, when the accident happened.
The vessel’s in-built cranes had lifted No.s 70008/9/ten and 11 and deposited them on the quayside, but for the duration of the lift of 70012, one of the slings ruptured. One particular finish of the 135-ton loco plunged some 15 feet onto the pontoon deck, quickly followed by the other end as the anxiety proved too much for the remaining slings.
As can be observed from the photograph, the frame and body of the loco have been substantially bent in the effect, which effectively wrecked the locomotive by ‘breaking its back’. There was significant damage to the roofline, the bodywork and the wheelsets, not to mention as-yet unknown hidden harm behind the paneling.
Stated on observer of the incident: “Unloading of the locos did not start off till 14.30 and unusually continued into the hours of darkness. No. 12 broke by means of the deck and landed on prime of food merchandise. The only good issue is that it was the final loco to be lifted out and not the very first, as otherwise it would have fallen onto the other people and smashed them up also. It provides a whole new which means to the phrase ‘Flying Banana’”.
When different initial investigations had been completed, No. 12 was removed from the hold and placed on a road trailer for safe storage within the docks. It is to be returned to Canada for element recovery and simply because it never left the dockside, will by no means have officially arrived in Britain. It will efficiently have been ‘lost en route’.
The ship left Newport on January 8 to unload its other cargo of grain in Belgium and was then due to head to a shipyard for repairs to its decking and pontoons, 5 of which were damaged in the influence.
The incident is believed to be unprecedented in the modern day are, which is maybe surprising given the huge number of diesel locos constructed in North America that have safely shipped to the UK and Europe for the duration of the final decade or so. As we closed for press, No. 70012 was nevertheless in Newport awaiting a ship back to the USA, exactly where it will be returned to GE’s Eries plant for full assessment.
As the damage will form portion of a key insurance claim it will be stripped and examined to see whether any elements can be recovered. Essential products such as the energy unit, alternator and compressors will want stringent testing if they are to be re-utilized, but the bodyshell is virtually specific to be scrapped, as is the frame – top to speculation as to whether the replacement loco will be an additional 70012 or no matter whether it will take the quantity 70013.
