EWS Case Study
EWS delivers over 1500 trains every day for customers to all parts of Britain, including through ports and the Channel Tunnel. EWS can deliver goods to virtually every part of the rail network in Britain and to Europe.
Every customer has individual requirements, with many seeking to use full trainload services. For those who require a selected number of wagons, EWS provides UK Network services, connecting customers with non-trainload requirements to all parts of Britain.
The UK Network services provided by EWS consists of both single wagons and larger groups of wagons moving lorry-sized consignments on a network of long-haul services linking strategically located hubs. From these hubs, feeder services radiate to serve terminals or customer sidings.
Partnerships with local terminal operators and road hauliers ensure that a full door-to-door service can be provided. This can include warehousing, stock control, order-picking and timed delivery to industrial and retail customers.
As well as high capacity conventional wagons, intermodal units such as containers, swapbodies and piggyback trailers also travel on UK Network services, allowing tailor-made solutions to be devised for each customer. Services are also integrated with trains through the Channel Tunnel and to and from ports.
A growing number of manufacturers and retailers in the consumer goods sector are using UK Network services to distribute their products, such as Tate & Lyle. A range of well-known high-street retailers use EWS UK Network services in partnership with road hauliers to provide their full logistics requirements.
Food, mineral water, soft drinks, chilled and frozen products, and household goods are moved on a regular basis, including the daily service from central Scotland to the Highlands for Safeway on a UK Network service. Many of the flows like these are primary hauls from supplier to a regional distribution centre but there is also a growing interest in distribution to stores using intermodal equipment via local railheads.
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