OVERLAND EXPRESS
On January 3, the first direct freight train ran from Yiwu, in eastern China, to the Barking railfreight terminal in London. The 7,500‑mile journey took over a fortnight, with the load of containers passing through Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Poland, Germany, Belgium and France before entering the UK via the Channel Tunnel. To mark the occasion, DB Cargo applied special commemorative branding to the two locomo‑ tives involved in the event, Class 92 92015 and freshly‑ repainted 66136.