Scunthorpe Steelworks
Last updated 25 May 2026
British Steel's integrated works in North Lincolnshire. Anchor Works, Santon FOT, and the surrounding reception sidings handle the iron-ore and coking-coal inbound flow (principally from Immingham) and finished-product steel outbound. Carried predominantly by DB Cargo (around 86% of journeys), with GB Railfreight carrying around 14%.
| Operating company | British Steel Limited |
| Commodity | Iron ore, coking coal, limestone (inbound); steel coil, plate, structural sections (outbound) |
| Active since | 1890s (steel production); rail-served integrated works from 1912 |
| Rail connectivity | Anchor branch off the Doncaster–Cleethorpes line; private reception network within the works |
| TIPLOC footprint |
SCNTHEC
(BSC Anchor Works)
SCNTANS
(Scunthorpe Anchor Sidings)
SCNTSOT
(Santon FOT (iron-ore reception))
SCNTTTC
(Scunthorpe Signal Supervisor sidings (RS&TE))
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| Carrier mix |
DB Cargo
(86%)
GB Railfreight
(14%)
|
| Trailing 12-period A2F | Inaugural data window — per-period reliability figures from P1 2026-27 onwards. |
Latest period summary
Scunthorpe Steelworks handled 82 monitored inbound services and 114 monitored outbound services in Period 2 2026-27. Inbound arrivals read 95% within 15 minutes of schedule against a national freight benchmark of 90%; outbound services read 91% within 15 minutes. The +9 percentage-point move on Period 1 2026-27 inbound and the +1 percentage-point move outbound: the outbound move sits within plausible sampling variation; the inbound range does not overlap with the baseline, indicating a step up in inbound punctuality. 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
Scunthorpe is British Steel’s integrated steelworks in North Lincolnshire — one of two remaining UK integrated works (the other being Tata Steel’s Port Talbot, served by Margam). The site comprises three blast furnaces (Queen Bess, Queen Mary, Queen Anne) and the surrounding rolling and finishing plant; the rail network into the works handles inbound iron ore and coking coal from the Port of Immingham and outbound finished steel.
The wider Scunthorpe cluster covers additional reception roads inside the works that do not currently appear as terminating points in TRUST; these will join the slug if and when they begin to terminate scheduled freight.
Activity window
Across the 90 days to 25 May 2026 the published archive observed 610 inbound and 635 outbound journeys at the Scunthorpe cluster (queried gauge_intelligence_v2 at 2026-05-25, 90-day window). DB Cargo carried around 86% of journeys; GB Railfreight around 14%. 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.
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.