Manually-controlled barrier with obstacle detection level crossing on the North and East route (ELR LEN3).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 17:51 | 🚄 1J84 | Carlisle → Middlesbrough Up (W → E) | approaching |
| 17:58 | 🚄 1N94 | London Kings Cross → Sunderland Down (E → W) | +5 min |
| 18:02 | 🚄 1A69 | Sunderland → London Kings Cross Up (W → E) | -1 min |
| 18:05 | 🚄 1J73 | Middlesbrough → Carlisle Down (E → W) | -1 min |
| 18:11 | 🚃 6H55 | Tyne Coal Terminal GBRf → Drax AES Up (W → E) | on time |
On today’s timetable, Church Street (hartlepool) crossing is predicted to be closed for about 4 h 53 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 57 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: 3.2 min (03:05–03:08, 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 08:26–09:26 in the morning and around 17:16–18:16 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Church Street (hartlepool) is a manually-controlled barrier with obstacle detection crossing (MCBOD) on the Seaton Carew–Hartlepool PD Ports FL line (North and East route · ELR LEN3). 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 255 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 97.5% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±3s (9 in 10 within 19s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.