Tinsley
Last updated 25 May 2026
Tinsley — GB Railfreight terminal sidings near Sheffield, South Yorkshire. Anchor point for intermodal and aggregates traffic in the Sheffield area.
| Operating company | GB Railfreight (Tinsley terminal sidings) |
| Active since | Tinsley remains in freight use following the closure of Tinsley Marshalling Yard in 1985; GB Railfreight-served sidings retained for current freight flows |
| Reception sidings |
Tinsley terminal sidings
(TINSGBR)
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| Rail connectivity | Sheffield district lines; connection to the Midland Main Line and ECML via Doncaster |
| 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
Tinsley received 19 monitored inbound services in Period 2 2026-27 — a small monitored sample. 83% of 18 completed arrivals were within 15 minutes of schedule (Wilson 90% interval 65%–93%), against a national freight benchmark of 90% over 12,042 completed services. The cancellation rate was 5% across 19 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
Tinsley sits in the Sheffield freight area, with GB Railfreight-served sidings carrying current intermodal and aggregates flows. The wider Tinsley Marshalling Yard closed in 1985; the present terminal footprint is a much-reduced operational core on the same complex.