East Road level crossing

Miniature warning light level crossing on the East Coast route (ELR ECM1).

right now
CLOSED
for 9 min
next: 🚄 now · 5 min early

Next 30 min

CLOSED 23:15–23:24 9m
OPEN 23:24–23:26 2m
CLOSED 23:26–23:31 5m
OPEN 23:31–23:34 3m
CLOSED 23:34–23:48 → 14m
Under the hood
Thu 23 Jul · 23:15
Today Tomorrow

Trains in window

23:13 1A36 🚄 LEEDS → KNGX → from St. Neots +4 min
23:14 1T68 🚄 KNGX → ELYY ← from Hitchin -1 min
23:16 1E88 🚄 GLGQHL → KNGX → from St. Neots -5 min
23:18 1D35 🚄 KNGX → LEEDS ← from Hitchin +3 min
23:21 4E52 🚛 WLSDEUT → HRTLPDF ← from Hitchin +3 min
23:22 1C73 🚄 CAMBDGE → KNGX → from St. Neots on time
23:24 1T69 🚄 KLYNN → KNGX → from St. Neots +19 min
23:29 6L55 🚛 TINSLYY → RPLLHGP → from St. Neots no show
23:29 2K98 🚆 STANAIR → CAMBDGE ← from Hitchin on time
23:30 9J72 🚄 HORSHAM → PBRO ← from Hitchin +1 min
23:31 1P73 🚄 PBRO → KNGX → from St. Neots -1 min
23:37 9S64 🚄 BRGHTN → CAMBDGE ← from Hitchin +1 min
23:40 1T71 🚄 ELYY → KNGX → from St. Neots +1 min
23:43 1N35 🚄 KNGX → YORK ← from Hitchin +5 min
23:46 2H68 🚆 LIVST → CAMBNTH ← from Hitchin on time
23:47 6L34 🚧 HOOJUYD → WHTMLDC ← from Hitchin -2 min
23:48 1E29 🚄 EDINBUR → KNGX → from St. Neots -2 min
🚄Express passenger 🚆Passenger 🚛Freight 🚧Engineering
now 23:15:55 · 758 avg · 17 in window
lx berths down: Y8/0739→Y8/[email protected] · down: Y8/1609→Y8/[email protected] · up: Y8/0766→Y8/[email protected] · up: Y8/2708→Y8/[email protected]
timetable cif full+upd 2026-07-22..2026-07-24
fetched 22:18:10
trust 32,977 active · 30,082 delays · 1,706 cancelled · 0 reconnects
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About this crossing

How often it closes

On today’s timetable, East Road crossing is predicted to be closed for about 15 h 5 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 39 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 79 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: 6.9 min (22:59–23:06, 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 06:05–07:05 in the morning and around 12:39–13:39 in the middle of the day. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.

About this crossing

East Road is a miniature warning light crossing (MWLB) on the Hitchin–St. Neots line (East Coast route · ELR ECM1). 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 18 trains through this crossing.

100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 93.3% of the warnings we could verify came true.

Typical timing error was ±55s (9 in 10 within 276s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.

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