CCTV-monitored manual barrier level crossing on the East Coast route (ELR ECM7).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
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On today’s timetable, Christon Bank crossing is predicted to be closed for about 7 h 18 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 102 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 6 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.
Closures cluster around 10:32–11:32 in the morning and around 12:48–13:48 in the middle of the day. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Christon Bank is a cctv-monitored manual barrier crossing (CCTV) on the Morpeth–Berwick-upon-Tweed line (East Coast route · ELR ECM7). 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 865 trains through this crossing.
99.9% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.3% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±85s (9 in 10 within 139s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.