Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal

Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal is a rail-road intermodal freight terminal with an associated warehousing estate in Northamptonshire, England. The facility is located at the junctions between the M1 motorway, A5 and A428 roads, 4mi east of Rugby and 6mi north of Daventry; it has a rail connection from the Northampton loop of the West Coast Main Line.The original development of approximately 120ha was built during the 1990s. of which only DIRFT south had a direct rail connection. An extension, often referred to as DIRFTII, of about 54ha received planning permission in 2005, and is designed to have all facilities rail connected – the first occupier of DIRFT2 was Tesco, whose distribution centre reached completion in late 2011.A second extension DIRFTIII, also rail connected, is now underway.HistoryDIRFTDaventry International Rail Freight Terminal is part of a land development project undertaken by Severn Trent Water on a 174ha site near Crick in Northamptonshire. The location, at junction 18 of the M1 motorway in close proximity to the A5, A14 and M6 roads had been identified as early as 1978 as a "motorway orientated growth point". The ground area of the original DIRFT development is divided into three sections: DIRFT Central 16ha, DIRFT East 53ha, and DIRFT South 55ha by the A5 and A428 roads.