DC Rail
Last updated 25 May 2026
Specialist freight operator carrying stone, aggregates, and general freight, with a concentration on the Chiltern and Great Western corridors.
| Active since | 2014 |
| Trailing 12-period A2F | Fewer than 12 closed periods of clean data on record — available once the pipeline reaches 12 complete periods. |
| Schedule 8 — CP7 cumulative | Available under commercial licence. CP7 rates £25.81/min NR-to-FOC, £51.98/min FOC-to-NR (2× asymmetry). Bilateral net position is the licensed product — see methodology. |
| Fleet specialisation | Aggregates and stone (Chiltern and South West flows dominant by service count) |
| Parent / ownership | Privately owned |
Latest period summary
DC Rail ran 220 freight services in Period 2 2026-27 at 88% A2F punctuality, against a national freight mean of 90% over 12,042 services. A2F was effectively unchanged on Period 1 2026-27 (88%); the 90% Wilson intervals overlap. DC Rail ranked first against peer freight operators on 5 of the 13 corridors it shared with another FOC over the period. PRELIMINARY at T+2; FINAL re-publication at T+35 after Network Rail's batch correction.
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Corridors served
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
DC Rail focuses on aggregates and stone flows, primarily serving construction supply chains on the Chiltern and Great Western routes. In Period 2 2026-27, the Chiltern/Aylesbury corridor accounted for the majority of its services by count, followed by Great Western and Southampton.