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Haulage company buys bankrupt customer to maintain rail traffic   

>From today's Glasgow Herald:


Scottish transport group John G Russell has driven to the rescue of
Norfrost, the Caithness freezer business....acquired the business from
recievers KPMG for an undisclosed sum.

He bought Norfrost partly because he had become alarmed at the dearth
of manufactured goods travelling south on the Glasgow-Daventry trains
which he charters daily from EWS. He added: "I've got plenty of good
coming north and unless we can find a balance, consumer products
travelling to Scotland will cost more.'"
Date:13 Sep 2005 02:22:08 -0700   Author:  

Re: Haulage company buys bankrupt customer to maintain rail traffic   

> Scottish transport group John G Russell has driven to the rescue
> of Norfrost, the Caithness freezer business....acquired the 
> business
> from recievers KPMG for an undisclosed sum.

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When I was still an active photojournalist for the UK rail press
I attended a photocall at another Norfrost site situated in the
old Leyland Motors factory yard, near Preston.

The occasion was the loading of a train of bogie 'CargoWaggons'
bound for the Far North Line with fridge parts made at Leyland.
It was back in BR days, and I went there straight from another
'first trainload for donkey's years' event at Metal Box, near Wigan.


Regards,

DigitisED  (Eddie Bellass)

Mythical Merseyside, in the Occupied Territories
of Old Lancashire, United Kingdom.

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Date:Tue, 13 Sep 2005 09:41:47 GMT   Author: