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Grand Central Railway — website check

Open-access train operating company in the United Kingdom, founded 2000, based in Sunderland. Grand Central Railway’s website (www.grandcentralrail.com) runs on Drupal. It is delivered through Cloudflare. Email from the domain is protected by an enforced DMARC policy.

Logo: GrandCentral Railway · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
64
Brand Web Indexout of 100

Share of 26 technical checks the site passes: security, speed, email and SEO. A measurement of the website — not a popularity ranking.

78
Security
40
Speed & delivery
63
Email & domain
64
SEO & markup
Official siteChecked 23 Oct 2026

About the brand

Founded2000
CountryUnited Kingdom
HeadquartersSunderland
IndustryPublic transport
Part ofArriva UK Trains
Official websitewww.grandcentralrail.com

Facts: Wikidata (CC0).

Built with

CMSDrupal
AnalyticsCloudflare Web Analytics
Tag managersGoogle Tag Manager
CDNCloudflarejsDelivr
CSS frameworksBootstrap
Web serversVarnish
Hosting platformsAcquia
Web fontsGoogle Fonts

Hosting & delivery

Servercloudflare
HTTP versionHTTP/3
TLSTLS 1.3
CertificateDigiCert Inc · valid until 2027-03-19
First response2,918 ms
Homepage weight562 KB
IPv6no

Email & domain

Mail providerMicrosoft 365
SPFyes
DMARC policyp=quarantine
BIMIno
DNSSECno
CAAno
Verified servicesMeta Business (domain verification), Google Search Console, Microsoft 365

SEO & social

Title47 characters
Meta description155 characters
Canonicalyes
Structured dataOrganization, WebSite
Language versions0
Open Graphno
Social profiles linkedFacebook, Instagram, X

AI crawlers & robots

AI crawlers blockednone
llms.txtyes
ads.txtno
security.txtno

Checklist

Security

  • HTTPS by default
  • HSTS header
  • TLS 1.3
  • Content-Security-Policy
  • X-Content-Type-Options
  • Referrer-Policy

Speed & delivery

  • HTTP/3
  • IPv6
  • First response under 1.5 s
  • Homepage under 1.5 MB

Email & domain

  • SPF record
  • DMARC record
  • DMARC enforced (quarantine / reject)
  • BIMI logo record
  • DNSSEC
  • CAA record

SEO & markup

  • Title tag 10–70 characters
  • Meta description
  • Canonical link
  • Exactly one H1
  • Structured data (JSON-LD)
  • Open Graph title and image
  • All images have alt text
  • XML sitemap
  • robots.txt
  • security.txt

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