Doncaster Yard
Last updated 25 May 2026
Network Rail yard sidings at Doncaster — Belmont Down Yard, Up Decoy and the Down Decoy and Wood Yard reception sidings. Pass-through yard infrastructure for marshalling, stabling, and crew changes — not a destination intermodal terminal.
| Operating company | Network Rail (yard infrastructure); DB Cargo UK, GB Railfreight, Freightliner and others use specific reception sidings |
| Reception sidings |
Doncaster yard reception sidings
(DONCBDY (Belmont Down), DONCUDF / DONCUDY (Up Decoy), DONCDDG (Down Decoy), DONCDCE, DONCWDY (Wood Yard CE))
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| Rail connectivity | East Coast Main Line at Doncaster, with branches into the South Yorkshire freight network |
| Not to be confused with | Doncaster iPort at Rossington (Verdion / iPort Rail, slug doncaster-iport) and Doncaster Europort at Decoy South Bank (Freightliner, slug doncaster-europort) — both are destination intermodal terminals, separate from these yard sidings |
| Trailing 12-period A2F | Yard sidings are pass-through infrastructure rather than scheduled-arrival destinations; trailing A2F figures are reported on the iPort and Europort entity pages where they apply. |
Latest period summary
Doncaster Yard received 473 monitored inbound services in Period 2 2026-27 — 91% arrived within 15 minutes of schedule across 459 completed arrivals, against a national freight benchmark of 90%. The -5 percentage-point move on Period 1 2026-27 (96%) warrants monitoring; the Wilson intervals sit adjacent. 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 Doncaster yard TIPLOCs cover Belmont Down Yard, Up Decoy and the adjacent Down Decoy and Wood Yard reception sidings. These are Network Rail yard infrastructure — used for stabling, splitting and joining, and crew or traction changes — rather than destination intermodal terminals. The Down Decoy and Wood Yard sidings belong to specific operators and are tracked separately by operator attribution.
The yard sidings are kept distinct from Doncaster iPort and Doncaster Europort, which are commercial destination terminals on different branches into the ECML.