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.
| # | Leg | Mode | Distance | Circuity | Running |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Receipt, plan and lift at Fenwick Yard | 3h 00m | |||
| 1 | Fenwick Yard → Dunmore Quay | Rail | 59 km | 1.14 | 0h 57m |
| — | Interchange at Dunmore Quay | 1h 30m | |||
| 2 | Dunmore Quay → Thorne Vale | Rail | 145 km | 1.22 | 2h 21m |
| — | Interchange at Thorne Vale | 1h 30m | |||
| 3 | Thorne Vale → Halgate | Rail | 100 km | 1.17 | 1h 37m |
| — | Interchange at Halgate | 4h 00m | |||
| 4 | Halgate → Kelvedon Gateway | Road | 162 km | 1.26 | 2h 23m |
| — | Discharge and release at Kelvedon Gateway | 2h 00m | |||
Of that total, 7h 00m is spent standing still under a crane rather than moving — 36% of the door-to-door clock. Cutting a lane's transit almost never means running faster; it means taking a lift out of it.
Corridor 15 is the longest routing on the network and the clearest illustration of where transit time actually goes on a hub-and-spoke system.
The running time is the smaller half of the story. Fenwick to Kelvedon passes through several intermediate terminals, and each pass-through costs an hour and a half whether or not anything is lifted — the consist stops, the path is re-taken, the brake test is done. Add the receipt at Fenwick and the release at Kelvedon and better than a third of the published transit is a box sitting still.
What that means if you are buying
It means asking a carrier to run faster on this lane is asking the wrong question. The transit falls when a stop comes out of it, not when the train speeds up. It is also why we quote terminal-to-terminal rather than yard-to-yard: the yard figure would be flattering and useless.
Bonded storage at the far end
Kelvedon has 41,000 m² of bonded warehousing on the estate boundary, which for a customer running an import programme is often worth more than an hour off the transit.
Equipment on this service
All unit types. Bonded warehousing available on the Kelvedon estate.