Corridors
A corridor is a contiguous run of railway carrying a coherent freight flow — typically defined by the inland terminals served from a single port or origin region. Gauge Intelligence covers corridors rather than Network Rail routes because corridors are how freight actually moves, and corridor-level performance is what determines whether a flow makes commercial sense.
Each corridor has a living reference page that updates at every period close. Methodology: Corridor delineation, v1
Performance summary — Period 2 2026-27
Corridor-attributed A2F — services attributed to each corridor by NROD routing; every traversal of a monitoring point counts once. For operator-attributed national figures, see operators and the league-table methodology.
| Corridor | Services | A2F | 12-week mean | Key endpoints |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anglo-Scottish | 409 | 71% | — | Mossend — Carlisle |
| Channel Tunnel | 739 | 73% | — | Dollands Moor — London |
| Chiltern/Aylesbury | 994 | 70% | — | Merehead Quarry — Wembley |
| Cross-London | 1315 | 85% | — | — |
| East Coast Main Line | 1721 | 77% | — | London Kings Cross — Edinburgh |
| Felixstowe to West Midlands & North | 2018 | 77% | — | Felixstowe — Birmingham |
| Great Eastern Main Line | 1262 | 78% | — | Liverpool Street — Felixstowe |
| Great Western Main Line | 1100 | 72% | — | London Paddington — South Wales |
| Midland Main Line | 1152 | 77% | — | London St Pancras — Sheffield |
| Northern Ports & Transpennine | 1683 | 76% | — | Immingham — Manchester |
| South & West Yorkshire | 1491 | 76% | — | Doncaster — Sheffield |
| South West & Wales to Midlands | 656 | 69% | — | Port Talbot — Birmingham |
| Southampton Corridor | 1216 | 80% | — | Southampton — Birmingham |
| West Coast Main Line | 1957 | 74% | — | London Euston — Glasgow |
Services and A2F are computed live from Network Rail TRUST data across Period 2 2026-27. Services are segment traversals: every journey that crosses a corridor monitoring point contributes one count per traversal, consistent with the corridor attribution methodology (see league-table methodology). Cancellations are excluded from the A2F denominator. The 12-week trailing mean is unavailable for every corridor at this stage: the TRUST data window only extends back to 23 February 2026 (Period 12 2025-26), and no corridor carries a defensible trailing sample yet. Trailing means backfill once enough prior periods accumulate. Key endpoints are editorial: the principal origin and terminus of each corridor as defined in the corridor delineation.
Coverage
The published archive covers fourteen UK freight corridors as at the industry review edition of 2 June 2026. Each entity page carries identity, key endpoints, and links to period reports where available. Period reports backfill as each corridor accumulates sufficient closed periods of clean TRUST data. For methodology, see league-table methodology.