Manual gate level crossing on the North and East route (ELR BWC).
| No trains in the next 30 minutes. |
On today’s timetable, Hirst Lane crossing is predicted to be closed for about 0 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 0 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 0 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.
No pronounced peak — closures are spread through the day.
Hirst Lane is a manual gate crossing (MGH) on the Lynemouth ALCAN EW&S–Chathill line (North and East route · ELR BWC). A signaller or crossing keeper closes the gates across the road 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 64 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 ±34s (9 in 10 within 34s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.