Canal Towpath level crossing

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

predicted
OPEN
for 19s

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

next: 🚛 in 1 min · 19 min early

Next 30 min

OPEN 04:56–04:56 19s
CLOSED 04:56–04:57 50s
OPEN 04:57–05:00 3m
CLOSED 05:00–05:01 50s
OPEN 05:01–05:08 7m
CLOSED 05:08–05:09 50s
OPEN 05:09–05:53 → 44m
Under the hood
Mon 07 Sep · 04:56
Today Tomorrow

Trains in window

04:57 🚛 6D97 Lackenby B.S.C.Scunthorpe B.S.C.(Ent.C.) Up (NW → SE) approaching
05:00 🚛 6H58 Immingham Biomass LP (DBS)Drax Power Station Down (SE → NW) -25 min
05:09 🚃 4R47 Drax Power StationImmingham Biomass LP (DBS) Up (NW → SE) -34 min
05:17 🚛 6J03 Immingham NordicTinsley S.S. Down (SE → NW) no show
🚃Empty stock 🚛Freight
now 04:56:04 · 106 avg · 4 in window
live observation: 1 up · 0 down
timetable cif full+upd 2026-09-06..2026-09-08
fetched 02:08:15
trust 48,724 active · 21,567 delays · 2,955 cancelled · 0 reconnects
About this crossing

How often it closes

On today’s timetable, Canal Towpath crossing is predicted to be closed for about 1 h 44 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 58 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: 0.6 min (01:11–01:12, 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.

Worst times to cross today

Closures cluster around 08:56–09:56 in the morning and around 19:56–20:56 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.

About this crossing

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 260 trains through this crossing.

100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 60.5% of the warnings we could verify came true.

Typical timing error was ±536s (9 in 10 within 1621s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.

Full accuracy report →

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