Earles Sidings (Hope cement works)

Last updated 25 May 2026

Cemex's Hope cement works in the Hope Valley, Derbyshire — the principal UK cement producer served by rail. Outbound cement and inbound supplementary materials carried predominantly by Heavy Haul Rail (around 83% of journeys in the live TRUST window), with DB Cargo carrying the balance.

Earles Sidings (Hope cement works) website

Operating company	Cemex UK (Hope cement works)
Commodity	Bulk cement powder outbound; supplementary raw materials inbound
Active since	1929 (cement works opened; rail connection from original construction)
Rail connectivity	Earles Sidings on the Hope Valley line; private siding network into the works
TIPLOC footprint	`ERLEFHH` (Hope (Earles Sidings) Freightliner Heavy Haul terminal) `ERLEHES` (Hope (Earles Sidings) DBS terminal) `ERLESDG` (Earles Sidings signal box reception) `ERLEBCI` (Hope Sidings B.C.I. terminal)
Carrier mix	Heavy Haul Rail (83%) DB Cargo (16%)
Trailing 12-period A2F	Inaugural data window — per-period reliability figures from P1 2026-27 onwards.

Latest period summary

Earles Sidings handled 60 monitored inbound services and 71 monitored outbound services in Period 2 2026-27. Inbound arrivals read 86% within 15 minutes of schedule against a national freight benchmark of 90%; outbound services read 87% within 15 minutes. The -10 percentage-point move on Period 1 2026-27 inbound and the -10 percentage-point move outbound sit within plausible sampling variation at these denominators; the ranges around each reading overlap. PRELIMINARY at T+2; FINAL re-publication at T+35 after Network Rail's batch correction.

Full breakdown — P2 2026-27 period report

Reports

Carriers active

Corridors served

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

Earles Sidings is the rail reception for Cemex’s Hope cement works in the Hope Valley, Derbyshire — the principal cement producer in the UK that retains rail-served logistics at scale, around 500 journey endpoints in the 90-day window to 25 May 2026. Outbound cement powder moves to terminals across the North and Midlands; inbound supplementary materials (including coal and synthetic gypsum, historically) call at the same sidings.

Activity window

Across the 90 days to 25 May 2026 the published archive observed 234 inbound and 250 outbound journeys at the Earles cluster (queried gauge_intelligence_v2 at 2026-05-25, 90-day window). Heavy Haul Rail carried around 83% of journeys; DB Cargo around 16%. Per-period reliability data for this site, once a closed-period window is available, will be published in the next quarterly archive edition. Corrections and additions welcomed via [email protected].

Methodology

Carrier and footprint figures are computed from Network Rail TRUST data, attributed by destination and origin TIPLOC. See the league-table methodology for the attribution rules, the data-window methodology for the period boundaries, and the supply-chain entity methodology for the entity classification and bundling rules.

Carrier labels reflect the current operating entity, not the current TRUST attribution. Network Rail issued a distinct toc_id for Heavy Haul Rail in late February 2026 following the 29 January 2026 split of the Freightliner Group, but re-coding of in-flight bulk traffic from the historic Freightliner toc_id is still in progress; at this archive’s published data window the majority of bulk cement haulage at Earles continues to flow under the legacy code. The shares above describe the operator that runs each journey, not the TRUST code under which it appears.

Inaugural data window

This register entry covers identity and rail-freight footprint only. Per-period reliability figures — arrival-to-five-minute pass rate, cancellation rate, intraday pattern — publish from the first full closed rail period that completes under the current attribution model. Until that period closes, footprint counts are the only figures on this page.

Partial carrier attribution

Footprint counts on this page reflect the freight operators whose TRUST activations resolve to this site's TIPLOCs. Movements handled outside the named carriers — internal shunts, non-NROD-reporting operators, or flows attributed to network nodes rather than the site itself — are not captured here. Where the rail-served footprint is shared between several occupiers, the named carrier may not be the contracting party.