Canal Towpath level crossing

Level level crossing on the North and East route (ELR DOW).

predicted
CLOSED
for 23s

Information only. Always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.

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Next 30 min

CLOSED 09:59–10:00 23s
OPEN 10:00–10:14 14m
CLOSED 10:14–10:14 50s
OPEN 10:14–11:02 β†’ 48m
Under the hood
Thu 22 Oct Β· 09:59
Today Tomorrow

Trains in window

09:55 πŸš† 2P06 Scunthorpe β†’ Doncaster Down (SE β†’ NW) on time
10:00 πŸš„ 1B68 Liverpool Lime Street HL/ML β†’ Cleethorpes Up (NW β†’ SE) approaching
10:14 πŸš„ 1B73 Cleethorpes β†’ Liverpool Lime Street HL/ML Down (SE β†’ NW) +1 min
10:30 🚧 6O01 Scunthorpe Trent T.C. β†’ Eastleigh East Yard Down (SE β†’ NW) sched
πŸš„Express passenger πŸš†Passenger 🚧Engineering
now 09:59:43 Β· 140 avg Β· 4 in window
live observation: 1 up Β· 1 down
timetable cif full+upd 2026-10-21..2026-10-23
fetched 02:08:22
trust 33,174 active Β· 31,699 delays Β· 1,963 cancelled Β· 9 reconnects
About this crossing

How often it closes

On today’s timetable, Canal Towpath crossing is predicted to be closed for about 1 h 40 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 57 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 3 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: 1.1 min (09:21–09:22, 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.

Worst times to cross today

Closures cluster around 08:56–09:56 in the morning and around 20:54–21:54 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.

About this crossing

The crossing is on a footpath in Keadby, Lincolnshire.

Canal Towpath is a level crossing (WG) on the Scunthorpe Trent T.C.–Knottingley T.M.D. line (North and East route · ELR DOW). 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.

How accurate is this forecast?

We score this page against what actually happened on the railway: over the last 7 days that covered 562 trains through this crossing.

100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 98.8% of the warnings we could verify came true.

Typical timing error was Β±30s (9 in 10 within 67s). This scores when trains pass: barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.

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