Automatic half-barrier level crossing on the East Coast route (ELR LEN3).
| 01:05 | 6H44 | 🚃 | JARRGBF → DRAXGBR | → from Brockley Whins | no show |
On today’s timetable, Boldon crossing is predicted to be closed for about 7 h 19 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 145 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: 2.4 min (00:05–00:08, 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 09:02–10:02 in the morning and around 15:16–16:16 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Boldon is a automatic half-barrier crossing (AHB-X) on the Sunderland–Brockley Whins line (East Coast route · ELR LEN3). 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 7 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 95.0% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±44s (9 in 10 within 80s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.