Manually-controlled barrier with obstacle detection level crossing on the East Midlands route (ELR SPD1).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 09:16 | 🚧 6L32 | Doncaster Up Decoy → Whitemoor Yard Up (NW → SE) | no show |
| 09:20 | 🚆 2K08 | Peterborough → Lincoln Down (SE → NW) | passed |
| 09:23 | 🚛 4L28 | Doncaster Iport GBRF → Felixstowe South GBRF Up (NW → SE) | no show |
| 09:34 | 🚛 4E00 | London Gateway GBRF → Tinsley Yard GBRf Down (SE → NW) | +6 min |
| 09:35 | 🚆 2K07 | Lincoln → Peterborough Up (NW → SE) | approaching |
On today’s timetable, Blotoft crossing is predicted to be closed for about 2 h 24 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 33 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 6 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: 5.5 min (07:02–07:07, 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 06:48–07:48 in the morning and around 15:27–16:27 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Blotoft is a manually-controlled barrier with obstacle detection crossing (MCBOD) on the Peterborough North Yd GBRf–Sleaford line (East Midlands route · ELR SPD1). 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 374 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 ±79s (9 in 10 within 189s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.