Transrail Freight

Transrail was a trainload rail freight operator based in St Blazey, England, UK with a large operating area including Scotland, Wales and the west of England.

Mainline Freight, Loadhaul and Transrail were purchased by a consortium led by Wisconsin Central in 1996 and amalgamated into a new company, English Welsh & Scottish.

[1][2] It was initially and briefly named "Trainload Freight West Limited" before being re-branded in July 1994.

[3] Transrail had the largest inherited operating area of the three post-Trainload Freight companies, but the least amount of traffic.

The three companies and Rail Express Systems were merged to form English Welsh & Scottish (EWS).

Trans-Rail livery on 37674 at Westbury in April 2004