Anglo-Scottish
Last updated 25 May 2026
Grangemouth to Carlisle via Coatbridge, Mossend, Motherwell, and Carstairs — the Scottish freight hub linking Central Belt terminals to the West Coast Main Line.
| NR route | Scotland |
| Route chain | Grangemouth – Falkirk – Coatbridge – Mossend – Motherwell – Carstairs – Lockerbie – Carlisle |
| Key constraints | Mossend junction; Carstairs; cross-border pathing onto WCML |
| Trailing 12-period A2F | Fewer than 12 closed periods of clean data on record — available once the pipeline reaches 12 complete periods. |
Latest period summary
Anglo-Scottish recorded 71% A2F punctuality in Period 2 2026-27 (26 April – 23 May 2026) on 420 freight services, up 4 percentage points from 67% in Period 1 2026-27 on a smaller denominator. The intervals overlap with the prior period. PRELIMINARY at T+2; FINAL re-publication at T+35 after Network Rail's batch correction.
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Methodology & sources
All figures derive from Network Rail's NROD TRUST feed, processed via the Gauge Intelligence ingest pipeline. Period definitions, A2F (Arrival to Fifteen), the Wilson 90% interval, daily anomaly rules, cross-view reconciliation, and delay attribution are documented at:
Data window — period boundaries and the data-as-of cutoff
League tables — cross-view reconciliation across the four analytical views
Anomaly detection — daily A2F SPC rules
Delay attribution — DAPR cause-code breakdown
Forecasting — prediction intervals and possession-exposure estimates
The Anglo-Scottish corridor connects the Central Belt freight terminals — Mossend, Coatbridge, and Grangemouth — to the West Coast Main Line via Carstairs, and through to Carlisle and the wider English network. It carries intermodal containers from Coatbridge, petroleum products from Grangemouth, and Anglo-Scottish trunk flows.
Pathing is shaped by the Mossend junction complex, the Carstairs convergence with the WCML, and capacity onto the cross-border route at Carlisle.