Statistical data set

Rail freight (RAI04)

Data about rail freight, produced by Department for Transport.

• From: Department for Transport
• Published: 12 December 2013
• Last updated: 15 December 2022 — See all updates

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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Published 12 December 2013
Last updated 15 December 2022 + show all updates

1. 15 December 2022

   Links to rail tables updated to go to the Office of Rail and Road where applicable.

2. 16 December 2021

   Data tables updated for Transport Statistics Great Britain 2021.

3. 17 December 2020

   Data tables updated for Transport Statistics Great Britain 2020.

4. 17 December 2019

   Data tables updated for Transport Statistics Great Britain 2019.

5. 6 December 2018

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

6. 23 November 2017

   Tables updated.

7. 8 December 2016

   Tables updated to the latest year.

8. 12 December 2013

   First published.