Manually-controlled barrier with obstacle detection level crossing on the East Coast route (ELR ECM2).
Information only. Always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 09:50 | 🚄 1V85 | Newcastle → Reading Up (N → S) | +1 min |
| 09:51 | 🚄 1S07 | London Kings Cross → Edinburgh Down (S → N) | +2 min |
| 10:03 | 🚄 1S08 | London Kings Cross → Edinburgh Down (S → N) | +1 min |
| 10:07 | 🚄 1E79 | Reading → Newcastle Down (S → N) | +2 min |
| 10:08 | 🚄 1E05 | Edinburgh → London Kings Cross Up (N → S) | on time |
| 10:10 | 🚄 1N03 | London Kings Cross → Newcastle Down (S → N) | -2 min |
| 10:24 | 🚄 1A61 | Sunderland → London Kings Cross Up (N → S) | +3 min |
On today’s timetable, Balne crossing is predicted to be closed for about 9 h 30 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 103 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 22 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 07:59–08:59 in the morning and around 14:59–15:59 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
The crossing is on Highgate in Balne, North Yorkshire.
Balne is a manually-controlled barrier with obstacle detection crossing (MCBOD) on the Doncaster West Yard–Selby line (East Coast route · ELR ECM2). 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.
Our accuracy measurement doesn't cover this crossing yet. Reports from people at the crossing are the ground truth here. How we measure →