Manually-controlled barrier level crossing on the North and East route (ELR NOC).
| 01:09 | 1P95 | 🚄 | MNCRIAP → YORK | ← from Wakefield Kirkgate | +3 min |
On today’s timetable, Castleford Gates crossing is predicted to be closed for about 7 h 25 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 102 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 9 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: 8.7 min (01:05–01:13, 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 06:00–07:00 in the morning and around 20:34–21:34 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Castleford Gates is a manually-controlled barrier crossing (MCB/MB) on the Wakefield Kirkgate–Milford West Sidings line (North and East route · ELR NOC). A signaller monitors the crossing, confirms it is clear, and lowers the barriers ahead of each train. 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 1,123 trains through this crossing.
98.2% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.1% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±41s (9 in 10 within 418s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.