Doncaster iPort
Last updated 21 May 2026
Open-access strategic rail freight interchange at Rossington, south of Doncaster, off M18 J3. Operated by iPort Rail (Verdion subsidiary). Distinct from Doncaster Europort (Freightliner, Decoy yard).
| Operating company | iPort Rail (Verdion subsidiary; MD Steve Freeman) |
| Parent | Verdion (logistics park opened September 2018) |
| Active since | September 2018 |
| Reception sidings |
Reception sidings
(DONCIEP, DONCIGB, DONCIPO)
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| Capacity | Up to 6 trains/day; 20 at full build under the 2024 Verdion–MEDLOG Phase 2 expansion |
| Rail connectivity | South Yorkshire Joint Railway via Rossington Colliery branch — ECML access; eastbound to South & West Yorkshire |
| Not to be confused with | Doncaster Europort (Freightliner, Decoy yard, ~5 miles north — separate slug doncaster-europort) |
| 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
Doncaster iPort received 78 monitored inbound services in Period 2 2026-27 — 93% arrived within 15 minutes of schedule across 75 completed arrivals, against a national freight benchmark of 90%. The headline is flat on Period 1 2026-27 (93%); the ranges around each reading overlap. PRELIMINARY at T+2; FINAL re-publication at T+35 after Network Rail's batch correction.
Reports
Operators calling
- GB Railfreight
- Direct Rail Services
Corridors served
Origin ports
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
iPort Rail is an open-access strategic rail freight interchange at Rossington, within Verdion’s logistics park south of Doncaster. GBRf runs the dominant share of services; Direct Rail Services also calls.
Latest arrivals performance
Computed via the destination lens — services aggregated by inbound terminal STANOX. See /methodology/league-tables/.
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Within 15 min | — |
| Late trains/day | — |
| Trend | — |
| Period | — |
Figures update at period close. First data forthcoming.