Automatic half-barrier level crossing on the East Coast route (ELR PMJ).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 15:00 | 🚄 1L42 | Birmingham New Street → Stansted Airport Up (W → E) | passed |
| 15:03 | 🚄 1N57 | Stansted Airport → Birmingham New Street Down (E → W) | approaching |
| 15:21 | 🚛 6E23 | Mountsorrel Sdgs → Peterborough West Yard Up (W → E) | cancelled |
On today’s timetable, Bainton Green crossing is predicted to be closed for about 1 h 25 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 33 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 4 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: 3.6 min (12:14–12:18, 2 trains), 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.
Closures cluster around 06:04–07:04 in the morning and around 18:18–19:18 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Bainton Green is a automatic half-barrier crossing (AHB) on the Peterborough North Yd GBRf–Grantham line (East Coast route · ELR PMJ). The approaching train itself triggers the closure at a fixed point on its approach. 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.
We score this page against what actually happened on the railway — over the last 7 days that covered 364 trains through this crossing.
99.7% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 98.5% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±68s (9 in 10 within 155s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.