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English Welsh & Scottish Railway (833 words) |
 | 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. |
 | 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. |
 | 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. |
| EWS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (371 words) |
 | EWS was originally created as a subsidiary of Wisconsin Central Ltd in 1996, and was acquired by Canadian National Railway when it bought Wisconsin Central in 2001. |
 | EWS operates services throughout the UK, and carries items such as cars, chemicals, supermarket goods, steel, railway engineering supplies, coal, aggregates, timber and also deliver trains arriving in the UK from outwith the country. |
 | On 26 October 2005, the French Minister of Transport announced that EWS International had been granted a safety certificate and would become the third rail freight operator in France. |