Statistical data set

Rail freight (RAI04)

Data about rail freight, produced by Department for Transport.

The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) is the data source to several rail tables published by the Department for Transport. Moving forwards, annual updates can be found on the ORR Data Portal website. Links to these tables on ORR’s website are below.

DfT table Table name ORR table(s)
RAI0401 National Railways freight moved by commodity Table 1310 - Freight moved by commodity
RAI0402 National Railways freight lifted by commodity Table 1315 - Freight lifted
RAI0403 Number of freight train movements, impacts on road haulage and Freight Performance Measure Table 1330 - freight trains run
Table 1340 - rail freight impact on road haulage
Table 1320 - Freight Delivery Metric

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Updates to this page

Published 12 December 2013
Last updated 15 December 2022 + show all updates
  1. Links to rail tables updated to go to the Office of Rail and Road where applicable.

  2. Data tables updated for Transport Statistics Great Britain 2021.

  3. Data tables updated for Transport Statistics Great Britain 2020.

  4. Data tables updated for Transport Statistics Great Britain 2019.

  5. Data tables updated for Transport Statistics Great Britain report for 2018.

  6. Tables updated.

  7. Tables updated to the latest year.

  8. First published.