Grangemouth
Last updated 25 May 2026
Forth Ports-operated container and bulk port on the south bank of the Firth of Forth, Scotland's largest container port. Rail connectivity via the Grangemouth branch onto the Edinburgh–Glasgow line, with onward routings to the West Coast Main Line at Mossend.
| Active since | — |
| Operating company | Forth Ports |
| Rail terminals |
Grangemouth rail terminals
(GRNGCLR, GRNGEWS, GRNGFLT)
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| Branch-line capacity | Grangemouth branch off the Edinburgh–Glasgow line at Grangemouth Junction |
| Network constraints | Mossend interchange for WCML routings; gauge clearance on Scottish routes |
| Trailing 12-period A2F | Fewer than 12 closed periods of clean data on record — available once the pipeline reaches 12 complete periods. |
Latest period summary
Grangemouth received 27 monitored inbound services in Period 2 2026-27 — a small monitored sample. 100% of 26 completed arrivals were within 15 minutes of schedule (Wilson 90% interval 91%–100%), against a national freight benchmark of 90% over 12,042 completed services. The cancellation rate was 4% across 27 scheduled paths. PRELIMINARY at T+2; FINAL re-publication at T+35 after Network Rail's batch correction.
Reports
Operators calling
Corridors served
Inland destinations
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
Grangemouth is Scotland’s largest container port, operated by Forth Ports on the south bank of the Firth of Forth. Outbound rail freight runs via the Grangemouth branch onto the Edinburgh–Glasgow line, with onward routings to inland terminals at Mossend and Coatbridge and southbound to the West Coast Main Line.
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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