Channel Tunnel
Last updated 25 May 2026
Dollands Moor to London via Ashford, Tonbridge, and the classic route through Redhill — the Channel Tunnel freight route from the Eurotunnel portal to London-area terminals.
| NR route | Southern / South East |
| Route chain | Dollands Moor – Folkestone – Ashford International – Tonbridge – Redhill – Hither Green |
| Key constraints | Dollands Moor reception sidings; Tonbridge cut-off; passenger sharing through Kent |
| 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
Channel Tunnel recorded 74% A2F punctuality in Period 2 2026-27 (26 April – 23 May 2026) on 744 freight services, down 1 percentage point from 75% 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 Channel Tunnel corridor carries cross-Channel freight services between the Eurotunnel portal at Dollands Moor and the London-area terminals via the classic route through Ashford, Tonbridge, and Redhill. Cross-Channel rail freight volumes are a small fraction of the corridor’s design capacity following the long-running decline since the 1990s peak.
Pathing is shaped by Dollands Moor reception, the Tonbridge cut-off, and passenger-service density through Kent.