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English Welsh & Scottish Railway is considering plans to set up a container handling terminal at the Alstom railway works in Eastleigh, in order to handle freight going to and from Southampton docks. 07-Oct-2005 Probotec, the Cardiff-based manufacturer of rail wagons with 40 staff, has been bought out of administration by English Welsh & Scottish Railway. 04-May-2005 English Welsh & Scottish Railway is planning to relocate up to 25 maintenance jobs from Thornaby to North Lincolnshire, as a result of Royal Mail's decision to transfer more work from rail to road. 09-Dec-2003 English Welsh & Scottish Railway has won a seven-year contract from Clydeport to transport coal from the Hunterston port in Ayrshire to a power station in Fife. 08-Aug-2003 English Welsh & Scottish Railway is planning to recruit 144 new train drivers this year. 29-Jan-2002 English Welsh & Scottish Railway has launched a new rail freight service between Motherwell and Inverness, and will start a second service between the West Midlands and Aberdeen later this year. 16-Aug-2001 English Welsh & Scottish Railway is linking up with Helios to prepare plans for the development of a £70m international rail freight terminal at Tinsley in Sheffield. 30-Apr-2001 English Welsh & Scottish Railway has received a takeover approach from Deutsche Bahn of Germany and Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer of France, as Wisconsin Central Transportation has decided to sell its 42% stake. 24-Jan-2001 English Welsh & Scottish Railway has announced plans to restore the former Alloa-Kincardine railway freight line over the next two years, in order to create a new freight route from Stirling to Dunfermline. 14-Dec-2000 English Welsh & Scottish Railway is considering plans to reopen a disused stretch of railway line near Birkenhead Docks to cope with the growing volume of freight coming through the Port of Liverpool. 01-Jun-2000 English Welsh & Scottish Railway is planning a major expansion of rail freight facilities on the south bank of the Humber following its success in persuading companies to switch from road transport to rail. 09-Feb-1999 English Welsh and Scottish Railway is considering plans to close a freight train crew depot in York with the loss of up to 45 jobs. 11-Jan-1999 Angel Train Contracts has agreed a £375m deal with English Welsh & Scottish Railway to buy and lease back 280 freight locomotives. 23-Oct-1998 English Welsh & Scottish Railway is opening a customer service delivery centre in Doncaster with the creation of 300 jobs. 15-Oct-1998 Angel Train Contracts has ordered 280 new freight locomotives at a cost of £375m, which will be built by General Motors in Canada and GEC Alsthom in Spain and then leased to English Welsh & Scottish Railway. 22-May-1998 English Welsh & Scottish Railway has warned that plans by Railtrack and Virgin to upgrade the west coast main line will provide under half the capacity needed for rail freight. 25-Feb-1998 English Welsh & Scottish Railway's recent acquisition of Railfreight Distribution has now been given European Commission approval, following a renegotiation with the government over the repayment of some of the grants promised. 20-Nov-1997 English, Welsh & Scottish Railway has reached agreement with the government over the terms on which it will take over British Rail's channel tunnel freight business, with other operators being allowed to share its trains in order to encourage competition. 06-Oct-1997 English Welsh & Scottish Railway is to transport 500,000 tonnes of steel coil a year from south Wales to the West Midlands on behalf of British Steel, in the biggest switch of heavy goods transport from road to rail since British Rail was privatised. 12-Sep-1997 English Welsh & Scottish Railway is planning to acquire the rail freight operations of National Power, which uses six locomotives to transport coal and limestone to its power stations. 20-Aug-1997 English Welsh & Scottish Railway is being told by the rail regulator to give up timetable slots that it has booked but cannot use and to reduce the number of trains it operates through key junctions, in order to avoid squeezing smaller companies out of the market. 22-Jul-1997 English Welsh & Scottish Railway is launching a new high-speed freight train service which will cut the journey time between the south of England and Scotland from 12 hours to less than nine. 02-Jun-1997 English Welsh & Scottish Railway is to take over Railfreight Distribution, the long-distance Channel tunnel freight service, giving it a virtual monopoly on British Rail's freight businesses. 14-Mar-1997 English Welsh & Scottish Railway is in discussions with NFC about the reintroduction of milk trains to the railway network, in order to carry milk from the south-west and Wales to London. 03-Feb-1997 Railtrack has reached agreement with English Welsh & Scottish Railway which will give EWS a formula for calculating track access costs, thus enabling it to provide instant quotations to freight customers. 25-Jan-1997 English Welsh & Scottish Railway, the US-owned company, has been selected as preferred bidder for Railfreight Distribution, the British Rail Channel tunnel freight train operator. 27-Dec-1996 English Welsh & Scottish Railway is planning a major expansion in the transport of single-wagon shipments around the country, by linking its Solent ports, North Thameside, North Humberside and East Anglia to its "enterprise service". 14-Nov-1996
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