Automatic half-barrier level crossing on the East Coast route (ELR NOB1).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 11:00 | 🚄 1K63 | Lincoln → Crewe Up (NE → SW) | on time |
| 11:06 | 🚄 1N54 | Crewe → Lincoln Down (SW → NE) | -2 min |
| 11:27 | 🚆 2A20 | Cleethorpes → Matlock Up (NE → SW) | -3 min |
| 11:34 | 🚆 2N55 | Matlock → Lincoln Down (SW → NE) | +13 min |
| 11:36 | 🚄 1B85 | Lincoln → London Kings Cross Up (NE → SW) | active |
On today’s timetable, Cottage Lane crossing is predicted to be closed for about 2 h 57 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 75 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 4 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: 1.5 min (05:37–05:39, 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 06:14–07:14 in the morning and around 13:18–14:18 in the middle of the day. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Cottage Lane is a automatic half-barrier crossing (AHB) on the Newark North Gate–Hykeham line (East Coast route · ELR NOB1). The approaching train itself triggers the closure at a fixed point on its approach. 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 287 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.8% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±111s (9 in 10 within 153s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.