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.
| 04:58 | 🚄 1Y01 | York → London Kings Cross Up (N → S) | active |
| 05:12 | 🚛 4E52 | Willesden Euroterminal → Hartlepool PD Ports FL Down (S → N) | no show |
| 05:16 | 🚃 3G11 | York → Leeds Up (N → S) | sched |
| 05:21 | 🚃 3Y03 | Doncaster Carr IEP Depot → York Down (S → N) | -9 min |
| 05:25 | 🚄 1S01 | Doncaster → Edinburgh Down (S → N) | active |
On today’s timetable, Barcroft crossing is predicted to be closed for about 8 h 36 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 84 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.
Longest closure so far today: 3.2 min (00:32–00:35, 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.
Closures cluster around 10:20–11:20 in the morning and around 17:43–18:43 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Barcroft 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.
We score this page against what actually happened on the railway — over the last 7 days that covered 630 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.4% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±1s (9 in 10 within 26s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.