Manually-controlled barrier with obstacle detection level crossing on the North and East route (ELR DOW).
| 01:39 | 6K31 | 🚛 | SCNTSOT → IMNGHOT | → from Lincoln | cancelled |
On today’s timetable, Elsham crossing is predicted to be closed for about 4 h 20 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 55 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 10 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 10:59–11:59 in the morning and around 13:19–14:19 in the middle of the day. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Elsham is a manually-controlled barrier with obstacle detection crossing (MCBOD) on the Barnetby Sdgs Colas Rail–Lincoln line (North and East route · ELR DOW). 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 3 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 100.0% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±30s (9 in 10 within 38s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.