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ORR rail statistics data portal

Coverage is Great Britain, with history and update cadence varying by table. The freight section combines four-weekly operational tables, quarterly releases and annual series; its periodic tables can take up to 15 working days after period end, and the checked commodity table ran from period 1 of 2019-20 through period 6 of 2026-27.

Open dataportal.orr.gov.uk

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Access: No key · none; 20
Licence clarity: OGL-UK-3.0 · terms linked; 20
Evidence: 5 source links checked; 20
Freshness: verified 2026-11-01; 20
Documentation: docs · limits · coverage · attribution; 17

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Access: none
Free tier: Public table pages and browser-generated CSV, JSON and XLSX downloads are keyless. No download allowance was stated.
Rate limits: Not stated
Licence: OGL-UK-3.0terms
Licence note: ORR says its Crown-copyright website material may be used and reused free of charge in any format under the Open Government Licence. Logos and identified third-party copyright are excluded.
Attribution: Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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