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Rail terminal for 'wine trains' opens in Bristol

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Old 29th July 2010, 22:35
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Rail terminal for 'wine trains' opens in Bristol

A rail freight terminal which will handle deliveries of 8.96m bottles of wine a year has reopened in Bristol.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-10805870


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Who is running it?
If its EWS/DB its doomed from the start
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Freightliner will be doing the work.
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Freightliner will be doing the work.
They stole a lot of work from EWS.
I was told by a Director of EWS that FL were not a problem.
Just got the news that there may be a lot of live redundancies at Warrington among the drivers.
Nice to see that thier luck has run out.
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They stole a lot of work from EWS.
I was told by a Director of EWS that FL were not a problem.
Just got the news that there may be a lot of live redundancies at Warrington among the drivers.
Nice to see that thier luck has run out.

How can that be nice ?
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