Dollands Moor Freight Yard is a railway freight yard nearFolkestone in Kent, and was purpose built in 1988 for theChannel Tunnel. It is to the west of theEurotunnel Folkestone Terminal, and just to the south of theM20 Motorway.
Dollands Moor has eight roads in the yard with an additional five roads which are through lines and run-round loops. All lines are electrified at 25 kV overhead wires and connections to the west of the yard are also dually electrified with athird rail (750 V). This is to allow access to theSouth-Eastern Main Line at Saltwood Junction just to the east ofSandling Station. Dollands Moor was operated byRailfreight Distribution from its opening, thenEWS and nowDB Cargo UK. Other freight operators pass through the yard, but do not stop there.
The function of Dollands Moor is for locomotive and crew changes rather thanmarshalling.[1] Most trains operating from Dollands Moor are of theTrainload variety and if any marshalling is required, this was historically undertaken at European Freight Operating Centre inWembley, but with the drawdown of theWagonload network in the UK[2] they now go toDidcot. At the time of writing (October 2015) just one Fridays only working Wagonload train goes through Dollands Moor to Didcot[3][needs update]
The lines from Dollands Moor and theChannel Tunnel Rail Link are measured in kilometres whereas Network Rail lines are measured in miles and chains.[4]
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Illegal immigrants have been a problem for Dollands Moor; andstowaways have caused increased security and safety incidents.[5][6]
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