DIRFT Daventry
Last updated 25 May 2026
Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal (DIRFT) — strategic rail freight interchange in Northamptonshire, off the M1 at Junction 18. UK's largest intermodal SRFI by throughput, served by multiple operators and a primary inland destination for Felixstowe and London Gateway container traffic.
| Operating company | Prologis (terminal operations contracted to Maritime Transport and Russell Group) |
| Parent | Prologis (logistics park developer) |
| Active since | 1997 (DIRFT I); subsequent phases through DIRFT III |
| Reception sidings |
Reception and terminal sidings
(DIRFBRF, DIRFDR2, DIRFTFL, DIRFTRR)
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| Rail connectivity | West Coast Main Line via Rugby; direct rail connection from the WCML at Hillmorton |
| 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
DIRFT Daventry received 324 monitored inbound scheduled paths in Period 13 2025-26 — 91% arrived within 15 minutes of schedule across 263 completed arrivals, against a national freight benchmark of 90%. Inaugural Daventry period report; the Period 12 2025-26 trailing baseline is below the publishable threshold, so no comparison against the prior period is published.
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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
DIRFT is the UK’s largest strategic rail freight interchange by container throughput, developed by Prologis on the West Coast Main Line at Crick, near Rugby. Terminal operations are run by Maritime Transport and the Russell Group; principal carriers are Freightliner Intermodal, GB Railfreight, and DB Cargo UK.