Coatbridge
Last updated 25 May 2026
Coatbridge Freightliner Terminal — Freightliner's intermodal terminal in North Lanarkshire, Scotland's longest-established inland container terminal. Anglo-Scottish destination for deep-sea container traffic via the WCML.
| Operating company | Freightliner Group (Coatbridge Freightliner Terminal) |
| Active since | Opened 1968; Scotland's first inland Freightliner terminal |
| Reception sidings |
Coatbridge terminal sidings
(COATDRS, COATFLT)
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| Rail connectivity | WCML access via Mossend / Carstairs; North Clyde line to Glasgow |
| 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
Coatbridge received 68 monitored inbound services in Period 2 2026-27 — 91% arrived within 15 minutes of schedule across 68 completed arrivals, against a national freight benchmark of 90%. The small sample of 68 services produces a wide Wilson interval (84%–95%); the headline is within the expected range on Period 1 2026-27 (85%). 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
Coatbridge Freightliner Terminal is Scotland’s longest-established inland container terminal, opened by British Rail in 1968 and now operated by Freightliner. It anchors the Scottish end of the West Coast Main Line container service pattern alongside Mossend.