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DB Schenker

DB Schenker (formerly English Welsh & Scottish Railway Ltd) was launched in February 1996 after the company acquired four divisions of British Rail's rail freight operations - Rail Express Systems, Loadhaul, Transrail Freight and Mainline Freight. This was followed the purchase of the National Power Rail Unit and British Rail's European division - Railfreight Distribution.

These divisions were merged to form EWS, a company that was able to provide customers with a nationwide and European network of rail freight services, engineering support and services to the rail industry. All these companies were branded EWS, apart from Railfreight Distribution which was branded EWS International.

Since 1996, EWS strongly marketed its nationwide service abilities and has successfully played a major role in growing rail freight in Britain. This has increased by over 50% since 1996, and rail currently has a 12% market share of all land hauled freight in Britain. Traffic volumes continue to grow and new markets are continually being won to rail, including fast moving consumer goods.

In 2007, Deutsche Bahn bought EWS and, following successful integration into the overall company structure (which had over 200K employees), changed its name in January 2009 to DB Schenker Rail (UK) Ltd. DB Schenker offers customers a superior level of service in Britain, and aims to be the leading rail freight operator across Europe.

DB Schenker provides Network Rail and a range of other customers with on-call recovery operations with its specialist road / rail equipment to get vehicles back on the rail and on the move again.

This service is provided by highly skilled engineers across the country, performing rail recovery services at any rail connected facility. ESG engineers have direct involvement in recovery situations (on-call) and also analysing/identifying the root causes of failure. This service is provided for freight customers, infrastructure maintenance contractors, owners of private infrastructure and franchised passenger train operating companies; so, reducing the impact on other services and operations by re-railing vehicles and re-opening lines for service.

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