London Gateway
Last updated 25 May 2026
DP World deep-sea container terminal on the north bank of the Thames at Stanford-le-Hope, opened 2013. Connected to the national network via a dedicated rail link to the London, Tilbury and Southend line.
| Active since | November 2013 |
| Operating company | DP World |
| Rail terminals |
London Gateway rail terminal
(THMSDBS, THMSFLI, THMSLGA, THMSLGB)
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| Branch-line capacity | Dedicated rail spur off the London, Tilbury and Southend line via Thames Haven Junction |
| Network constraints | Gospel Oak to Barking line capacity for routings to the North; Forest Gate Junction |
| 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
London Gateway received 201 monitored inbound services in Period 2 2026-27 — 82% of 195 completed arrivals were within 15 minutes of schedule, against a national freight benchmark of 90%. The reading is in line with Period 1 2026-27; the ranges around each reading overlap. PRELIMINARY at T+2; FINAL re-publication at T+35 after Network Rail's batch correction.
Reports
Operators calling
Corridors served
- Gospel Oak to Barking Line
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
London Gateway is DP World’s deep-sea container port on the Thames at Stanford-le-Hope, operating since November 2013 alongside the adjacent logistics park. The rail terminal connects to the London, Tilbury and Southend line via a dedicated spur, with outbound services routed to inland terminals across the Midlands and the North.
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
Available under commercial licence. Contact [email protected] for subscription terms.