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China to UK freight train

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PeterC

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A brief Google search suggests that the nearest terminal now may be Antwerp.
 

randyrippley

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Whats the difference? The "train" could hardly cross the North Sea without a train ferry
 

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Was it the same wagons all the way through or containers moved from train to train?
 

etr221

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My understanding is that it was containers transloaded from train to train: firstly at the Chinese border, from standard to Russian gauge wagons; and then back to standard gauge at the Belarus-Poland border; and fianlly to GB loading wagons somewhere - in Germany? - don't know quite why this was regarded as necessary, as I thought European loading gauge wagons could work to Barking; or alternatively GB compatible wagons could have gone across Poland.

But a query - does anybody have a timetable (or be able to point to one) giving route, and time, details? (what I saw when it was introduced was just an end to end duration)
 

Gag Halfrunt

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IIRC the number of Tunnel-approved container wagons is limited, and the owners didn't want them tied up on a long journey to Belarus and back.
 

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Was it the same train (or at least set of containers) all the way through or was it simply some containers that were taken off the main service in Germany (?) and put on a different train for the UK?
 

jamesontheroad

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So, the wagons and the locomotives change at multiple points throughout the journey. Apart from the containers, does that make it the same train? :E

Trigger would say so...

 

furnessvale

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So, the wagons and the locomotives change at multiple points throughout the journey. Apart from the containers, does that make it the same train? :E
Indeed! It is all about publicity. Does changing bogies at the Spanish border make it a different train? If a container can change trains at the Sino Russian border, would the use of a short sea Lo-Lo ship across the Engish Channel count as a similar move?
 
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