GB Railfreight

Last updated 28 Apr 2026

Diversified freight operator covering intermodal, aggregates, biomass, automotive, and infrastructure materials across the UK network.

GB Railfreight website

Active since	1999
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	Intermodal-led (latest period 100% intermodal by service count)
Parent / ownership	Infracapital (majority shareholder since 2015)

Latest period summary

GB Railfreight ran 2,887 freight services in Period 2 2026-27 at 89% A2F punctuality, against a national freight mean of 90% over 12,079 services. A2F was effectively unchanged on Period 1 2026-27 (88%); the 90% Wilson intervals overlap. Cancellation rate held near 3% on the scheduled-path denominator. PRELIMINARY at T+2; FINAL re-publication at T+35 after Network Rail's batch correction.

Full breakdown — P2 2026-27 period report

Reports

Corridors served

Ports served

Inland terminals 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

GB Railfreight runs a diversified portfolio spanning intermodal containers, aggregates, biomass, automotive, and infrastructure trains. It competes head-to-head with Freightliner on key intermodal corridors. GB Railfreight is present across several of the published supply-chain sites, including Drax Power Station (around 45% of journeys), Peak Forest Quarries (around 44%), Mendip aggregates quarries (around 16%), Scunthorpe Steelworks (around 14%), Westbury Aggregates Terminal (around 17%), and Margam Steel Terminal (a smaller share alongside DB Cargo).