Garston
Last updated 25 May 2026
Garston Freightliner Terminal — Freightliner's Merseyside intermodal terminal, south of Liverpool city centre. Receives deep-sea container traffic on the Liverpool branch of the WCML.
| Operating company | Freightliner Group (Garston Freightliner Terminal) |
| Active since | Freightliner operations on the former Garston Dock complex from the 1970s |
| Reception sidings |
Garston terminal sidings
(GRSTNFT)
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| Rail connectivity | Liverpool branch off the WCML at Weaver Junction; CLC route to Manchester |
| 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
Garston received 26 monitored inbound services in Period 2 2026-27 — a small monitored sample. 88% of 26 completed arrivals were within 15 minutes of schedule (Wilson 90% interval 74%–95%), against a national freight benchmark of 90% over 12,042 completed services. The cancellation rate was 0% across 26 scheduled paths. 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
Garston Freightliner Terminal is Freightliner’s Merseyside intermodal terminal, sitting south of Liverpool on the former Garston Dock complex. It is a regular call for deep-sea container services off the Haven ports and the WCML.