Rail Operations Group
Last updated 25 May 2026
Open-access operator running locomotive haulage, stock movements, and a growing automotive flow business across the UK network.
| Active since | 2015 |
| 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 | Multi-traffic (locomotive haulage, stock moves, automotive, and general freight) |
| Parent / ownership | Privately owned |
Latest period summary
Rail Operations Group ran 306 freight services in Period 2 2026-27 at 96% A2F punctuality, against a national freight mean of 90% over 12,042 services. A2F rose by 4 percentage points on Period 1 2026-27 (92%); the 90% Wilson intervals do not overlap. ROG ranked first against peer freight operators on 2 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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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
Rail Operations Group (ROG) is an open-access operator offering locomotive haulage, rolling stock movements, and an expanding automotive business. Its mixed-traffic portfolio spans a large number of corridors. In Period 2 2026-27 it recorded 183 non-cancelled services, with the West Coast Main Line and Felixstowe to West Midlands & North corridors busiest by service count. A2F was 97%.