Automatic half-barrier level crossing on the North and East route (ELR EJM).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 09:13 | 🚆 2T15 | Newcastle → Ashington Down (SE → NW) | +1 min |
| 09:14 | 🚛 6M80 | North Blyth GBRF → Shap Summit Quarry GBRf Up (NW → SE) | no show |
| 09:34 | 🚆 2T14 | Ashington → Newcastle Up (NW → SE) | +4 min |
| 09:42 | 🚆 2T17 | Newcastle → Ashington Down (SE → NW) | active |
On today’s timetable, Holywell crossing is predicted to be closed for about 2 h 23 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 67 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 3 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: 1.5 min (06:01–06:03, 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 09:57–10:57 in the morning and around 13:49–14:49 in the middle of the day. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Holywell is a automatic half-barrier crossing (AHB-X) on the Northumberland Park (NE)–Ashington line (North and East route · ELR EJM). The approaching train itself triggers the closure at a fixed point on its approach. 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 469 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 ±7s (9 in 10 within 125s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.