Intermodal freight operator

We publish the transit time. Then we hit it.

Twelve terminals, twenty physical links, one timetable. Pick an origin and a destination below and the routing engine will tell you exactly how long the box is on our network — and how much of that it spends standing still.

Price a lane See the timetable
96.4% Services arriving inside the published window, rolling twelve months
412,000 TEU lifted across the network last year
71 g CO₂e per tonne-kilometre on the rail legs, third-party verified

Next departures

 
Indicative next departures across the network
Dep Service Arrives Status
06:45 LB-C4
ASH → DUN 		Sun 01:47 Held: path
00:00 LB-C1
ASH → MER 		Sat 08:29 Loading
12:15 LB-C7
CAW → THV 		Sun 07:26 Held: path
06:30 LB-C9
RAV → BEX 		Sat 13:08 Held: path
09:15 LB-C12
HAL → ASH 		Sat 21:52 On time
06:30 LB-C15
FEN → KEL 		Sun 01:48 Held: path
LB-01 Routing and transit time live calculation

Pick two terminals. The engine searches the network for the fastest path, not the shortest one — and on a quarter of our lanes those are different routes, because a longer run on a single mode beats a shorter one that needs an extra lift.

Select an origin and a destination.

—— rail – – road · · · short-sea click a terminal to route to it

LB-02 Scheduled services timetabled, not on demand

Every service below runs to a published path whether it is full or not. That is the whole product: a slot you can plan a factory around.

A loaded container train running through wooded country LB-C4 Corridor 4 — the Ashport landbridge Coast to coast without touching the sea. The service the company is named after: a box discharged at Ashport is on the quay at… ASH → DUN 19h 03m A rail-mounted gantry standing over an intermodal yard LB-C1 Corridor 1 — Ashport to Merrow Junction The shortest and busiest thing we run: a 177 km straight line from the west-coast deep-sea berths to the middle of the network, four… ASH → MER 8h 29m A ship-to-shore gantry on a container quay LB-C7 Corridor 7 — Cawdor Point to Thorne Vale South-east short-sea arrivals to the northern interchange. The longest single-mode run we operate, and the clearest example of why the fastest route is not… CAW → THV 19h 11m Car-transporter wagons loaded with finished vehicles LB-C9 Corridor 9 — the Ravensworth automotive shuttle A short, dense, dedicated shuttle for a single sector. The highest on-time performance on the network, and the one lane where five minutes actually… RAV → BEX 6h 39m A covered bulk wagon standing in a siding LB-C12 Corridor 12 — the Halgate harvest flow The only seasonal service on the network. Halgate moves more than three times as much freight in October as it does in March, and… HAL → ASH 12h 37m Flat wagons stabled in a freight yard LB-C15 Corridor 15 — Fenwick Yard to Kelvedon Gateway North to east, the long diagonal. Five legs, three of them through Merrow, and a third of the clock spent standing still. FEN → KEL 19h 18m
LB-03 Load planning ISO 668 series 1

Freight is priced against whichever limit binds first — the cube or the axle. Put your handling units in and the planner will stow them for real, then tell you which one you hit.

Drag to orbit. Every box shown sits where the packer put it.

LB-04 Terminals twelve on network
Gate hours, lifting capability and position
Code Terminal Type Gate Lifting Links
ASH Ashport Deepwater Seaport 24/7 Two ship-to-shore cranes, four rail-mounted gantries 4
DUN Dunmore Quay Seaport 24/7 One ship-to-shore crane, two rail-mounted gantries 3
CAW Cawdor Point Seaport 05:00-23:00 One ship-to-shore crane, two reach stackers 3
MER Merrow Junction Hub 24/7 Six rail-mounted gantries over four 775 m sidings 5
KEL Kelvedon Gateway Inland 06:00-22:00 Three rail-mounted gantries, two reach stackers 4
THV Thorne Vale Inland 24/7 Four rail-mounted gantries 4
SAL Saltrigg Inland 06:00-20:00 Two reach stackers 3
HAL Halgate Inland 06:00-22:00 Two rail-mounted gantries 3
BEX Bexley Cross Inland 24/7 Three rail-mounted gantries, one reach stacker 4
OND Ondermere Inland 06:00-22:00 Two rail-mounted gantries 3
FEN Fenwick Yard Inland 24/7 Three rail-mounted gantries 2
RAV Ravensworth Inland 06:00-20:00 Two reach stackers 2
LB-05 Why corridors jam live simulation

The moving lines behind this page are not decoration. They are a running Nagel–Schreckenberg cellular automaton — the standard minimal model of traffic — with one corridor per row and a different vehicle density in each.

Watch a busy row for a few seconds and you will see a bright cluster of stopped vehicles drift backwards against the direction of travel. Nothing crashes and nothing brakes on purpose; the only ingredient is a 30% chance that any vehicle dawdles by one cell on any step. That single random slowdown is enough to make a jam out of nothing, and it is the reason a corridor at 90% utilisation is not 90% as good as one at 45%.

It is also why we sell slots on a timetable instead of selling every path we own. The plot beside this text is measured out of the live simulation, not drawn: each dot is one corridor's actual density against its actual throughput.

Sampling the simulation…

LB-06 On the network named figures
A set of railway points with the switch blades thrown A grain marketing cooperative Four months of the year, this terminal does three times the work A seasonal flow does not fit an annual timetable. We stopped trying to make it. HAL → ASH 12h 37m A reach stacker lifting a container clear of a stack A vehicle assembly plant A two-hour delivery window, three times a day, for four years Line-side delivery is the hardest promise in freight, because the cost of being wrong is not a late box — it is a stopped… RAV → BEX 6h 39m A heavy reach stacker with its boom raised A grid equipment manufacturer One 41-tonne transformer, and the only pad that would take it Most freight problems are ordinary. This one was a single indivisible object heavier than any other terminal on the network could lift. THV → ASH 15h 12m
LB-07 From the operations desk notes and analysis
August 13, 2026 Publishing the lane that performs worst Corridor 12 runs at 92.4% on time. It is the weakest figure on our network and it sits on the timetable next to the… August 13, 2026 What a circuity factor tells you about a route The ratio between how far a route actually runs and the straight line between its ends is one of the more useful numbers in… August 13, 2026 A jam with nothing in front of it Traffic jams appear on empty roads with no accident, no roadworks and no cause. The reason is well understood, it is one line of…
LB-08 Request a rate answered inside one working day