Opinion Data makes a difference
Network Rail’s award-winning strategic freight corridor (SFC) initiative is a big step towards improving reliability and providing the data needed to focus investment where it will deliver the biggest benefits
SFC OVERVIEW W
hile the punctuality of passenger trains wins headlines, the punctuality of freight services is
equally important to the businesses across Britain that depend on them. And as those businesses are increasingly relying on ‘just-in-time’ logistics to keep themselves supplied, so Network Rail’s focus on freight is increasing.
The creation of the company’s award-winning strategic freight corridor (SFC) initiative is a big step towards improving reliability and providing the data needed to focus investment where it will deliver the biggest benefits. While most passenger operators are often geographically limited, freight operating companies (Foc’s) operate around 1,000 trains a day across the length and breadth of the network. Keeping track of where the delays that affect them occur and what can be done to make their journeys more reliable has historically been difficult to capture as the trains make their way across Network Rail routes and through different areas of responsibility. Tracing their lineage to April 2012
and Network Rail’s freight reform programme, the 21 strategic freight corridors were designed to allow the company to monitor the performance of a single freight service from origin to destination. The level of detail is such that investment can be targeted to increase overall speeds and reliability. The analysis also bridges traditional routes and tracks key flows, such as Southampton to West Midlands or Peak District to London traffic. For data analysis purposes, each corridor is broken into mini freight sections (MFS’s), divided by TRUST recording points. For example, MFS43 covers Bordesley Junction to Kingsbury Junction and its data is added to that of the other MFS’s on the route to gather an overall picture of performance. The data can be represented in a variety of ways, including ‘washing lines’ for each headcode – which compare the performance of the train with its timetable – to dashboards and corridor maps showing delay hotspots. Unsurprisingly, those hotspots are finding themselves increasingly becoming targets for investment, with notable new pieces
INVERNESS INVERNESS ABERDEEN ABERDEEN SFC OVERVIEW Client: NPAT Job No: 4268
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DUNDEE DUNDEE STIRLING STIRLING EDINBURGH GLASGOW GLASGOWEDINBURGH
SFC01 Scotland Delay SFC02 Scotland to North West Daventry West Mids SFC03 Scotland to Tyne Tees Yorks East Mids SFC04 Felixstowe Thameside to Mids North West Scotland SFC05 Felixstowe Thameside to Yorks SFC06 Immingham Tyne to Yorks Mids SFC07 Southampton to West Mids North West SFC08 South Wales to London SFC09 South Wales to West Mids North West SFC10 Somerset to London South East SFC11 East Mids Peak Forest to London South East SFC12 Channel Tunnel to Daventry West Mids Wembley SFC901 Yorks Local SFC902 Southampton to Yorks SFC903 South Wales to North East SFC904 South Wales and West Locals SFC905 North West and Cross Pennines SFC906 South East Local SFC907 Mids Local SFC908 Mail Traffic SFC999 Misc
FREIGHT AREAS SCOTLAND
LNE & ANGLIA WEST & WALES CENTRAL
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE CARLISLE CARLISLE
FREIGHT AREAS SCOTLAND
LNE & ANGLIA WEST & WALES CENTRAL
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
SFC01 Scotland Delay SFC02 Scotland to North West Daventry West Mids SFC03 Scotland to Tyne Tees Yorks East Mids SFC04 Felixstowe Thameside to Mids North West Sco SFC05 Felixstowe Thameside to Yorks SFC06 Immingham Tyne to Yorks Mids SFC07 Southampton to West Mids North West SFC08 South Wales to London SFC09 South Wales to West Mids North West SFC10 Somerset to London South East SFC11 East Mids Peak Forest to London South East SFC12 Channel Tunnel to Daventry West Mids Wemb SFC901 Yorks Local SFC902 Southampton to Yorks SFC903 South Wales to North East SFC904 South Wales and West Locals SFC905 North West and Cross Pennines SFC906 South East Local SFC907 Mids Local SFC908 Mail Traffic SFC999 Misc
RIPON LANCASTER
LANCASTER LEEDS
MANCHESTER MANCHESTER BANGOR BANGOR DERBY NOTTINGHAM DERBY BIRMINGHAM ST DAVIDS BIRMINGHAM CAMBRIDGE OXFORD ST DAVIDS BRISTOL CARDIFF BRISTOL
CARDIFF EXETER
PLYMOUTH EXETER PLYMOUTH SOUTHAMPTON BRIGHTON AND HOVE SOUTHAMPTON CITY OF LONDON CANTERBURY OXFORDCITY OF LONDON CANTERBURY
NOTTINGHAM PETERBOROUGH
NORWICH NORWICH CAMBRIDGEPETERBOROUGH SHEFFIELD SHEFFIELD LINCOLN LINCOLN YORK RIPON KINGSTON UPON HULL YORK LEEDS KINGSTON UPON HULL
BRIGHTON AND HOVE
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