Daw Lane level crossing

CCTV-monitored manual barrier level crossing on the East Coast route (ELR ECM1).

predicted
CLOSED
for 2 min

Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.

next: 🚄 in 1 min · 2 min late

Next 30 min

CLOSED 06:42–06:43 2m
OPEN 06:43–06:45 2m
CLOSED 06:45–06:49 3m
OPEN 06:49–07:03 15m
CLOSED 07:03–07:07 3m
OPEN 07:07–07:13 → 7m
Under the hood
Tue 06 Oct · 06:42
Today Tomorrow

Trains in window

06:43 🚄 1V82 Newcastle → Reading Up (N → S) approaching
06:43 🚄 1S02 Doncaster → Edinburgh Down (S → N) approaching
06:46 🚛 6X31 Doncaster Up Decoy → Millerhill S.S. Down (S → N) sched
06:48 🚄 1Y04 Newcastle → London Kings Cross Up (N → S) +1 min
06:55 🚛 4E55 Felixstowe North F.L.T. → Tees Dock Corus (FLT) Down (S → N) +2 min
07:01 🚛 6E25 Dowlow Quarry FLHH → Heck Down (S → N) no show
07:06 🚄 1A90 Beverley → London Kings Cross Up (N → S) +5 min
🚄Express passenger 🚛Freight
now 06:42:07 · 227 avg · 7 in window
live observation: 1 up · 1 down
timetable cif full+upd 2026-10-05..2026-10-07
fetched 02:08:18
trust 33,332 active · 31,657 delays · 1,672 cancelled · 0 reconnects
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About this crossing

How often it closes

On today’s timetable, Daw Lane crossing is predicted to be closed for about 9 h 4 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 92 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 13 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: 5.5 min (02:06–02:12, 2 trains), 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.

Worst times to cross today

Closures cluster around 09:03–10:03 in the morning and around 14:51–15:51 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.

About this crossing

Daw Lane is a cctv-monitored manual barrier crossing (CCTV) on the Doncaster West Yard–Heck (FLHH) line (East Coast route · ELR ECM1). 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.

How accurate is this forecast?

We score this page against what actually happened on the railway — over the last 7 days that covered 1,326 trains through this crossing.

99.8% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.3% of the warnings we could verify came true.

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