![]() ![]() To enable it to offer its stated lower pricing to customers, EWS needed to reduce operating costs and increase availability. Typical of the fleet, the 2580 hp Class 47s needed a major overhaul every seven years, costing £400,000 yet had an average daily availability of less than 65% with only 16 days between major failures. ![]() ĮWS inherited a fleet of 1,600, mainly diesel, locomotives, with an average age of over 30 years 300 had been cannibalised for spares. After a public relations exercise involving the input of the general public, the company was named English Welsh & Scottish Railway (EWS). On the privatisation of British Rail's freight operations in 1996, Wisconsin Central Transportation Systems under the control of Ed Burkhardt bought a number of the newly privatised rail freight companies: Transrail Freight, Mainline Freight, Loadhaul, and later, Railfreight Distribution and Rail Express Systems thus controlling 93% of UK rail freight. ![]()
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