Heavy Haul Rail
Last updated 25 May 2026
UK bulk-freight operator carrying aggregates, cement, biomass, infrastructure materials, and minerals across the national network. Spun out as a standalone entity on 29 January 2026 from the former Freightliner Heavy Haul business, est. 1999.
| Active since | 2026 (as Heavy Haul Rail); operational continuity with Freightliner Heavy Haul, est. 1999 |
| Trailing 12-period A2F | Fewer than 12 closed periods of clean data on record under the new toc_id — 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 | Bulk (aggregates, cement, biomass, rail infrastructure materials (ballast, rails, sleepers), and minerals; 95 locomotives, more than 1,000 wagons, around 17 million tonnes per year) |
| Parent / ownership | Brookfield Infrastructure Partners and GIC (continuing pre-split ownership) |
Latest period summary
Heavy Haul Rail ran a small monitored sample of 54 freight services in Period 2 2026-27 at 89% A2F punctuality. The wide 90% Wilson interval (80%–94%) reflects the sample size. TRUST re-coding is ongoing and the count will grow in subsequent periods. PRELIMINARY at T+2; FINAL re-publication at T+35 after Network Rail's batch correction. Schedule 8 monetises every minute of attributable delay at CP7 rates: £25.81/min (NR-to-FOC) and £51.98/min (FOC-to-NR).
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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
Heavy Haul Rail is the UK bulk freight operator that continues the business set up in 1999 as Freightliner Heavy Haul. The standalone entity launched on 29 January 2026 when the Freightliner intermodal arm and the “Freightliner” brand were sold to CMA CGM Group; the bulk haulage business was retained by Brookfield Infrastructure Partners and the Singaporean sovereign wealth fund GIC under the new name. The fleet — 95 locomotives, more than 1,000 wagons, and around 17 million tonnes of annual lift — serves aggregates, cement, biomass, rail infrastructure materials, and minerals customers across the network, including the Mendip aggregates quarries, Earles Sidings (Hope cement works), Westbury Aggregates Terminal, and Boulby Mine.
Network Rail issued a distinct toc_id for Heavy Haul Rail in late February 2026; re-coding of in-flight bulk traffic from the historic Freightliner toc_id is still in progress at the published data window. As a result, this archive’s TRUST-derived journey counts under the Heavy Haul Rail label currently reflect only the portion of bulk haulage that Network Rail has migrated to the new code. The fuller picture of Heavy Haul Rail’s operational footprint is visible through the supply-chain pages above, which describe the operator by operating entity rather than by current TRUST attribution.