Rail freight
Terminals & intermodal sites
The places freight is loaded, unloaded and handed over — ports, strategic rail freight interchanges, quarries and industrial terminals.
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- Intermodal
- Container terminals where deep-sea or domestic boxes transfer between ship/road and rail — the SRFIs (strategic rail freight interchanges).
- Port / bulk
- Harbour terminals (Humber, Tees, Mersey, Thames) handling containers, bulk and project cargo.
- Aggregates / construction
- Quarries and concrete/aggregate depots dispatching stone, ballast and construction materials by train.
- Automotive / steel
- Car plants, ports and steelworks with dedicated rail flows.
- Coordinates
- Each site has an approximate location; open a terminal for its services and a map.
Intermodal terminal near Tamworth serving the A5 corridor.
GBCoatbridge Freightliner TerminalIntermodalFreightliner's Scottish intermodal terminal serving Glasgow and Edinburgh.
GBDaventry International Rail Freight Terminal (DIRFT)IntermodalMajor Midlands intermodal terminal and distribution park on the West Coast Main Line.
GBDollands MoorIntermodalChannel Tunnel freight yard handling continental intermodal services.
DEDuisburg Hbf freight yardIntermodalCentral European intermodal hub and China–Europe corridor gateway.
GBEast Midlands GatewayIntermodalSegro strategic rail freight interchange near East Midlands Airport.
GBHams Hall Rail Freight TerminalIntermodalBirmingham-area intermodal terminal handling deep-sea and continental boxes.
GBiPort DoncasterIntermodalStrategic rail freight interchange at Rossington, Doncaster.
GBLondon GatewayIntermodalDP World deep-sea port and logistics park on the Thames with on-site rail terminal.
GBMossend EurocentralIntermodalScotland's principal intermodal rail terminal, hub of the Scottish freight network.
GBPort of FelixstoweIntermodalThe UK's largest container port and busiest intermodal railhead, served by Freightliner, GB Railfreight and DB Cargo.
GBPort of TilburyIntermodalThames port handling containers and paper traffic with rail connections.
GBRipple LaneIntermodalEast London intermodal and aggregates terminal.
NLRotterdam MaasvlakteIntermodalEurope's largest port rail complex, terminus of continental intermodal corridors.
GBSouthampton Container TerminalIntermodalDP World deep-sea container port with multiple daily intermodal trains to the Midlands and the North.
GBTrafford Park EuroterminalIntermodalManchester's container rail terminal, a key destination for deep-sea intermodal flows.
GBWakefield EuroportIntermodalYorkshire intermodal terminal on the Wakefield–Castleford corridor.
GBWembley Euro Freight Operating CentreIntermodalLondon freight operating centre for intermodal and construction traffic.
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