Port of Felixstowe — Period 2 2026-27 (26 April – 23 May) report

Operators at Felixstowe-inbound

GB Railfreight ran the most felixstowe-inbound services in Period 2 2026-27 (158 of 227 completed arrivals). The full per-operator reliability comparison is deferred while the v1.0 industry review edition corrections inbox remains open.

Publishing a per-operator on-time comparison for the busiest freight operators at a single destination before the launch-cohort corrections cycle closes would treat provisional attribution as settled. The table returns at v2.0 general availability. The league-table methodology documents the comparison framework; the release cadence page sets out the four exit criteria for v2.0.

Source: Gauge Intelligence NROD-derived journey data, Period 2 2026-27. Single-destination headline figures (completed arrivals, aggregate within-15-minute rate, cancellations) continue to appear in the panels above; the per-operator breakdown is the panel deferred here.

Outbound destinations — services leaving Port of Felixstowe

Doncaster iPort took 32 of 212 outbound services (15%) in Period 2 2026-27 — the largest outbound destination from Port of Felixstowe, arriving within 15 minutes on 100% of trips.

Source: Gauge Intelligence NROD-derived journey data, Period 2 2026-27. Total outbound services count every journey originating at any Port of Felixstowe terminal TIPLOC, including services to destinations not yet named in the inland-terminal registry; rows are restricted to registered inland-terminal destinations, so the share column shows each terminal’s slice of total outbound traffic and the row counts will not sum to the total. Destinations with a published archive page link to that page; destinations named in the registry but not yet published render as plain text. The bracketed range on each within-15-minutes figure is the 90% confidence range given the sample size; terminals with fewer than 5 services in the period show a dash. Cancellations are excluded. Lens: supply-chain (port-origin destination-attributed) — see league-table methodology.

What the 15-minute threshold hides

Half of Period 2 2026-27 services arrived early — the median was 3 min ahead of timetable. The long tail the A2F binary misses: 5% of services ran +29 min or more late, and 1% arrived over +65 min late. The 15-minute A2F threshold sits at the 89th percentile — 12% of services exceeded it.

Median arrival delay is essentially unchanged on Period 1 2026-27 (-3 min then, -3 min now).

227 services with confirmed terminal arrival in Period 2 2026-27. A2F is binary at 15 minutes — this distribution surfaces what the headline figure does not show. National 99th percentile across all freight operators: 95 min.

Baseline (Period 1 2026-27): median -3 min, p99 +79 min. Period-on-period median shift +0 min.

ORR's Freight rail usage and performance release publishes by Network Rail region and route, not by operator. This page publishes by operator and corridor.

Daily on-time arrivals across Period 2 2026-27

Daily on-time arrivals are down 0.4 percentage points on Period 1 2026-27 (93% then, 92% now).

Source: Gauge Intelligence NROD-derived journey data, Period 2 2026-27. A service is counted on time when terminal arrival falls within 15 minutes of schedule. Days with no scheduled services (typically Sundays) render as gaps — a missing bar means no measurement, not a value at zero. Red bars flag days that triggered a statistical signal — see anomaly-detection methodology.

ORR's Freight rail usage and performance release publishes by Network Rail region and route, not by operator. This page publishes by operator and corridor.

Cancellation rate

In Period 2 2026-27, 4% of scheduled services were cancelled (9 of 248) — within the national mean of 4%; FOC traction, crew, and terminal decisions accounted for the largest share.

Cancellations are down 2.30 percentage points on Period 1 2026-27 (6% then, 4% now). The largest shifts in the responsible-party split are reported in the table below.

Attribution

Cancellation rate in Period 1 2026-27 was 6% across 371 scheduled paths. The current period is down 2.30 percentage points on Period 1 2026-27.

Source: NROD/TRUST activation feed and BPLAN scheduled paths, Period 2 2026-27. Cancellation rate = (post-activation + pre-activation cancellations) ÷ scheduled or activated paths. Pre-activation cancellations are TRUST CANCEL messages on schedules that never activated; post-activation cancellations have an activation and a CANCEL event. The bracketed range beside the headline rate is the 90% confidence range on the cancellation proportion given the sample size. Cause attribution uses the responsible-party mapping of the recorded cancellation reason code; see delay-attribution methodology.

Commercial licence

Four derivations are released to commercial-licence subscribers rather than the public archive. Each one reconciles TRUST source-data against Network Rail's Historic Delay Attribution record independently, not republished from public statistics.

• Schedule 8 net position
• Why late — delay attribution
• Schedule 4 possession exposure
• Path utilisation — corridor breakdown

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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