Manually-controlled barrier with obstacle detection level crossing on the Scotland route (ELR ECA2).
| 01:10 | 5C01 | 🚃 | PLMDCMD → EDINBUR | ← from Tweedbank | no show |
| 01:32 | 1M16 | 🚄 | IVRNESS → EUSTON | → from Slateford Depot | +3 min |
On today’s timetable, Kingsknowe crossing is predicted to be closed for about 6 h 48 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 86 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.
Closures cluster around 08:03–09:03 in the morning and around 15:30–16:30 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Kingsknowe is a manually-controlled barrier with obstacle detection crossing (MCBOD) on the Tweedbank–Slateford Depot line (Scotland route · ELR ECA2). 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 408 trains through this crossing.
99.8% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 72.0% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±24s (9 in 10 within 111s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.