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"You cannot get more central than Crick. We pull containers off rail at DIRFT and they're on the M1 within minutes. For national trunking it's simply the best-positioned spot in the country."
D2C and marketplace fulfilment for Crick — branded unboxing where it matters, plain despatch where it does not, all from the same stock on M1 (J18).
Fulfilment for Crick sellers operating on several channels at once: stock held once, availability pushed everywhere, orders picked same day whatever their origin. Picks from £1.00, returns from £1.25, integration £150/week. Around 8 minutes from DIRFT via M1 (J18), A5, A428 and M6 (J1).
Splitting stock between channels is how brands end up oversold on one and out of stock on another. A single pool fixes both.
Every channel reads the same available quantity, updated as orders are picked — so a unit sold on TikTok Shop disappears from your Shopify listing immediately.
Orders flow in from every channel into one pick queue and leave the same working day against a 4pm cut-off, with tracking pushed back automatically.
Add a marketplace and the warehouse side is a configuration change, not a new supplier, a new contract and a stock transfer.
The same two tiers as every WSUK service. Short-term rate card for monthly rolling accounts — pay per order, no commitment. Long-term contract rates tier down as volume becomes predictable.
Pay-per-use published rates with no commitment.
Locked-in rates on multi-year SLAs.
Most D2C orders — apparel, beauty, accessories.
The bulk of typical multi-channel volume.
Two-hand picks with extra protection and wrap.
Indicative ranges based on standard requirements. Bespoke / hazardous / temperature-controlled goods are quoted separately. Get an exact quote for your volumes →
Crick is small, but in logistics terms it is enormous. This unassuming Northamptonshire village in the NN6 postcode sits directly atop DIRFT - the Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal - and beside Junction 18 of the M1, where the M6 also begins at Junction 1. It is, quite literally, the rail-freight heart of the UK's Golden Triangle. The Rugby core is around eight minutes away, and few points in Britain place a business closer to the intersection of motorway and rail than this.
DIRFT is the reason Crick punches so far above its weight. The terminal moves containers between rail and road at national scale, and the vast distribution centres that ring it - occupied by household-name retailers and grocers - depend on that connection to feed the country. The nearby Crick Industrial Estate adds further space, but it is the rail terminal that defines the area's purpose: this is where trunk-haul freight transfers from train to truck for onward delivery across the Midlands and beyond.
For all its national significance, Crick sits among familiar Northamptonshire and Warwickshire neighbours. Rugby is minutes up the A428, Daventry a short run along the A5, and Lutterworth with its Magna Park cluster lies just north via the M1. A base at Crick means being at the pivot point of the whole triangle - the place national 3PLs choose precisely because road, rail and the country's densest concentration of distribution capacity all converge in one spot.
eCommerce fulfilment works well from this part of the country because the carrier network is close. Orders from Crick brands arrive from Shopify, Amazon, eBay, TikTok Shop and Temu into a single pick queue, leave the same working day, and the tracking goes back to whichever channel the order came from.
M1 (J18), A5, A428 and M6 (J1).
~8 min from the DIRFT / Rugby Golden-Triangle core.
Rail freight, national distribution and 3pl.
Operating from the Golden Triangle on M1 (J18), A5, A428 and M6 (J1) — around 8 minutes from the DIRFT core, and within easy reach of Rugby, Daventry and Lutterworth.
From first contact to live operation, our typical onboarding takes less than a week.
Volumes, SKUs, peak season, integrations. One 10-minute call is enough.
Transparent line-item pricing on a single page — no hidden fees, no jargon.
Walk the floor with our ops team. Bring your operations lead, not just procurement.
Stock in, scanning live, integrations active. Daily standups for the first two weeks.
Local answers for Crick, plus the questions every ecommerce fulfilment client asks.
It sits directly on top of DIRFT, the Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal, right beside M1 Junction 18 and the start of the M6 at Junction 1. That combination of rail and motorway makes tiny Crick one of the most significant logistics locations in the country.
DIRFT is a major rail-freight terminal that transfers containers between train and lorry at national scale. Basing near it lets you tap rail trunk-haul for long-distance inbound, then distribute by road, cutting cost and carbon on high-volume flows.
Extremely close - around eight minutes. Crick effectively is the core, sitting at M1 Junction 18 where the M6 also begins. You won't find a base more central to the triangle's road-and-rail convergence than this.
Lutterworth's Magna Park, the UK's largest distribution park, is a short run north on the M1, while Daventry's estates lie along the A5 and Rugby's are minutes away via the A428. It's the densest warehousing area in the country.
Absolutely - it's the classic choice. National 3PLs cluster here because DIRFT, the M1, the M6 and the country's biggest distribution parks all converge within minutes, making Crick unrivalled for high-volume, multimodal national distribution.
Yes — your own store plus Amazon, eBay, TikTok Shop, Temu and Shopify all pull into one pick queue from a single stock pool held at our Golden Triangle warehouse. One count, one invoice, no allocating stock by channel.
Live availability. The moment a unit is allocated to a pick it leaves the figure pushed to every channel, so the last one cannot sell twice — which is what causes the cancellations that damage marketplace accounts.
Same working day on a 4pm cut-off. Late carrier collections mean a Crick brand’s afternoon orders still make that day’s despatch and land on a next-day service.
Picks from £1.00 under 3kg, £1.50 for 3–19.99kg, £3.95 for 20kg+, plus £0.35 order processing. Storage from £4.50/pallet/week, integration £150/week covering all channels, returns from £1.25.
Yes — D2C orders ship in your boxes with your inserts while marketplace orders ship plain, from the same stock. We hold your packaging alongside your product in Crick’s nearest WSUK warehouse.
| What you get | WSUK | Generic 3PL / DIY |
|---|---|---|
| Live within 24–72 hours | Yes | Rarely |
| One stock pool across every channel | Yes | Rarely |
| Live availability sync, no overselling | Yes | Rarely |
| No setup fee & no minimum | Yes | Rarely |
| Branded D2C and plain marketplace packing | Yes | Rarely |
| New channels added in days | Yes | Rarely |
We provide multi-channel eCommerce fulfilment across Crick, Northamptonshire and the wider Golden Triangle — Rugby, Daventry and Lutterworth and beyond. Explore nearby service areas.
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