CCTV-monitored manual barrier level crossing on the North and East route (ELR WAG1).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 02:03 | 🚛 4M51 | South Bank Tees Dock (DRS) → Daventry DRS (Tesco) Up (E → W) | no show |
| 02:12 | 🚛 6M26 | Tees N.Y. → Knowsley Freight Terminal Up (E → W) | -47 min |
| 02:15 | 🚛 6H50 | Immingham Biomass LP (DBS) → Drax Power Station Down (W → E) | approaching |
| 02:21 | 🚃 4R45 | Drax Power Station → Immingham Biomass LP (DBS) Up (E → W) | approaching |
On today’s timetable, Heck Lane crossing is predicted to be closed for about 3 h 21 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 36 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 9 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: 4.9 min (00:19–00:24, 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.
Closures cluster around 06:03–07:03 in the morning and around 12:22–13:22 in the middle of the day. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Heck Lane is a cctv-monitored manual barrier crossing (CCTV) on the Whitley Bridge–Drax Power Station line (North and East route · ELR WAG1). 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.
We score this page against what actually happened on the railway — over the last 7 days that covered 273 trains through this crossing.
99.6% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 73.5% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±11s (9 in 10 within 840s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.