Manually-controlled barrier with obstacle detection level crossing on the East Midlands route (ELR SPD1).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 07:07 | 🚆 2K01 | Lincoln → Peterborough Up (N → S) | +7 min |
| 07:22 | 🚛 4E08 | London Gateway GBRF → Wakefield Europort GBRF Down (S → N) | no show |
| 07:31 | 🚆 2K90 | Peterborough → Doncaster Down (S → N) | approaching |
| 07:36 | 🚛 4L03 | Doncaster Iport GBRF → Felixstowe South GBRF Up (N → S) | no show |
On today’s timetable, Flax Mill crossing is predicted to be closed for about 1 h 41 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 22 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 5 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 (05:59–06:02, 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 06:00–07:00 in the morning and around 17:20–18:20 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Flax Mill is a manually-controlled barrier with obstacle detection crossing (MCBOD) on the Peterborough North Yd GBRf–Sleaford line (East Midlands route · ELR SPD1). 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 391 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 ±18s (9 in 10 within 52s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.