Manually-controlled barrier with obstacle detection level crossing on the North and East route (ELR LEN3).
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On today’s timetable, Billingham crossing is predicted to be closed for about 4 h 51 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 59 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 10 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 06:20–07:20 in the morning and around 17:37–18:37 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Billingham is a manually-controlled barrier with obstacle detection crossing (MCBOD) on the Eaglescliffe–Hartlepool BSC 20 Mill line (North and East route · ELR LEN3). 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 3 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 100.0% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±31s (9 in 10 within 44s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.