Manually-controlled barrier level crossing on the North and East route (ELR NEC1).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 18:15 | 🚆 2N29 | Newcastle → Carlisle Down (E → W) | passed |
| 18:34 | 🚆 2N46 | Hexham → Newcastle Up (W → E) | +2 min |
| 18:38 | 🚄 1N63 | Newcastle → Prudhoe Down (E → W) | active |
| 18:48 | 🚄 1J88 | Carlisle → Middlesbrough Up (W → E) | +1 min |
On today’s timetable, Chain Bridge crossing is predicted to be closed for about 5 h 19 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 65 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 8 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: 3.2 min (05:33–05:36, 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 08:47–09:47 in the morning and around 18:00–19:00 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Chain Bridge is a manually-controlled barrier crossing (MCB/MB) on the MetroCentre–Hexham line (North and East route · ELR NEC1). 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 353 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 98.1% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±79s (9 in 10 within 133s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.