Felixstowe to West Midlands & North
Last updated 25 May 2026
Felixstowe to Birmingham and the North via Ely — the principal cross-country intermodal route from the UK's largest container port.
| NR route | Anglia / East Midlands |
| Route chain | Felixstowe – Ipswich – Haughley Junction – Ely – Peterborough – Leicester – Nuneaton – Birmingham |
| Key constraints | Haughley Junction; Ely Area; Leicester capacity |
| 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
The freight corridor from the East Anglian ports to the West Midlands and North recorded 77% A2F punctuality in Period 2 2026-27 (26 April – 23 May 2026) on 2,035 freight services, up 1 percentage point from 76% 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 corridor from Felixstowe to the West Midlands & North carries intermodal traffic — Britain’s largest container port — to the West Midlands and the North via Ely, Peterborough, Leicester, and Nuneaton. It is the principal cross-country complement to the Great Eastern Main Line, which runs the same origin into Greater London.
Capacity at Haughley Junction and through the Ely area governs the corridor’s throughput. Multiple freight operators run regular intermodal services across the route.