Birch Coppice (BIFT)
Last updated 25 May 2026
Birch Coppice received 32 monitored inbound services in Period 2 2026-27 — 75% arrived within 15 minutes of schedule across 32 completed arrivals, against a national freight benchmark of 90%. The headline is -11 percentage points on Period 1 2026-27 (86%); the ranges around each reading still overlap at the edges, so the move sits within plausible sampling variation on this sample size. PRELIMINARY at T+2; FINAL re-publication at T+35 after Network Rail's batch correction.
| Operating company | Maritime Transport (Birmingham Intermodal Freight Terminal, BIFT) |
| Reception sidings |
BIFT terminal sidings (off Kingsbury branch)
(KNGSBCE, KNGSBCG, KNGSBOS, KNGSBYG, KNGSBEM)
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| Rail connectivity | Kingsbury branch; access to the Birmingham–Derby line and the wider Midlands network |
| 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
Birch Coppice received 32 monitored inbound services in Period 2 2026-27 — 75% arrived within 15 minutes of schedule across 32 completed arrivals, against a national freight benchmark of 90%. The headline is -11 percentage points on Period 1 2026-27 (86%); the ranges around each reading still overlap at the edges, so the move sits within plausible sampling variation on this sample size. 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
Birch Coppice is Maritime Transport’s Birmingham Intermodal Freight Terminal (BIFT), sitting on the Birch Coppice Business Park in North Warwickshire and connected to the rail network via the Kingsbury branch. GB Railfreight runs the largest share of the inbound services; DB Cargo UK carries the balance.
Latest arrivals performance
Computed via the destination lens — services aggregated by inbound terminal STANOX. See /methodology/league-tables/.
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| Late trains/day | — |
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Figures update at period close. First data forthcoming.