Allens West level crossing

Manually-controlled barrier with obstacle detection level crossing on the North and East route (ELR DSN1).

predicted
OPEN
for 22 min

Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.

next: 🚛 in 22 min · scheduled

Next 30 min

OPEN 04:56–05:18 22m
CLOSED 05:18–05:21 3m
OPEN 05:21–05:29 → 8m
Under the hood
Mon 07 Sep · 04:56
Today Tomorrow

Trains in window

04:48 🚛 4S99 Tees Dock BSC Export BerthGrangemouth TDG Up (NE → SW) -26 min
04:53 🚃 5P60 YorkSaltburn Down (SW → NE) passed
05:01 🚛 6X12 Scunthorpe Trent T.C.Tees Dock BSC Export Berth Down (SW → NE) no show
05:18 🚛 6D10 Tees Dock BSC Export BerthGascoigne Wood Up (FHH) Up (NE → SW) sched
05:21 🚃 5N51 DarlingtonMiddlesbrough Down (SW → NE) active
05:25 🚛 6N54 Scunthorpe Trent T.C.Sunderland Londonderry Sdg Down (SW → NE) no show
🚃Empty stock 🚛Freight
now 04:56:03 · 173 avg · 6 in window
live observation: 2 up · 2 down
timetable cif full+upd 2026-09-06..2026-09-08
fetched 02:08:15
trust 48,724 active · 21,567 delays · 2,955 cancelled · 0 reconnects
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About this crossing

How often it closes

On today’s timetable, Allens West crossing is predicted to be closed for about 7 h 45 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 95 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 8 minutes. Freight paths scheduled “as required” — most don’t run on any given day — aren’t counted here; when one does run, the live timeline above shows it.

Longest closure so far today: 3.2 min (23:59–00:02, 1 train), timed from trains actually seen on the signalling wire — the window edges use the same per-type margins as the forecast, since barrier positions aren't in any feed we can read.

Worst times to cross today

Closures cluster around 07:41–08:41 in the morning and around 15:26–16:26 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.

About this crossing

Allens West is a manually-controlled barrier with obstacle detection crossing (MCBOD) on the Teesside Airport–Tees N.Y. line (North and East route · ELR DSN1). An obstacle-detection system scans the crossing and confirms it is clear before the barriers lower automatically. Forecasts here combine the working timetable with live train-movement data (and live signalling where the crossing has it), so they reflect actual running including delays and freight — though they can still be wrong when the network is disrupted.

How accurate is this forecast?

We score this page against what actually happened on the railway — over the last 7 days that covered 708 trains through this crossing.

100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 98.9% of the warnings we could verify came true.

Typical timing error was ±38s (9 in 10 within 126s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.

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