Manual gate level crossing on the East Midlands route (ELR GRS2).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 17:26 | 🚆 2O22 | Skegness → Nottingham Up (E → W) | +2 min |
On today’s timetable, Ancaster crossing is predicted to be closed for about 2 h 16 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 31 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 3 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.
Closures cluster around 09:42–10:42 in the morning and around 16:24–17:24 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Ancaster is a manual gate crossing (MGH) on the Grantham–Sleaford line (East Midlands route · ELR GRS2). A signaller or crossing keeper closes the gates across the road ahead of each train. 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.
Our accuracy measurement doesn't cover this crossing yet. Reports from people at the crossing are the ground truth here. How we measure →