Railways: Freight

(asked on 2nd December 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what volume of rail freight in tonne-kilometres was moved in (a) November 2025 and (b) each month since July 2024.


Answered by
Simon Lightwood Portrait
Simon Lightwood
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 8th December 2025

The data for November 2025 has not yet been published. The most recent available data is for Rail Period 7 (14 September 2025 to 11 October 2025) where a total of 1,258 million net tonne-kilometres of freight were moved by rail.

The net tonne-kilometres of rail freight moved each rail period is published by the Office of Rail and Road in Table 1314 which is available at:

https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/usage/freight-rail-usage-and-performance/table-1314-freight-moved-by-commodity-periodic-1/.

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