Manually-controlled barrier with obstacle detection level crossing on the East Midlands route (ELR SPD1).
| 01:20 | 4L20 | 🚛 | DONCIGB → FLXSSGB | → from Sleaford | -11 min |
| 01:22 | 6V85 | 🚛 | TINSLYY → ACTONTC | → from Sleaford | no show |
| 01:35 | 4E19 | 🚛 | THMSLGB → DONCIGB | ← from Peterborough North Yd GBRf | +17 min |
| 01:35 | 4E52 | 🚛 | WLSDEUT → HRTLPDF | ← from Peterborough North Yd GBRf | +6 min |
On today’s timetable, Cheal Road crossing is predicted to be closed for about 2 h 8 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 21 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 (00:20–00:23, 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 08:10–09:10 in the morning and around 16:56–17:56 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Cheal Road is a manually-controlled barrier with obstacle detection crossing (MCBOD) on the Peterborough North Yd GBRf–Sleaford line (East Midlands route · ELR SPD1). An obstacle-detection system scans the crossing and confirms it is clear before the barriers lower automatically. 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 5 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 100.0% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±33s (9 in 10 within 79s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.