Manually-controlled barrier with obstacle detection level crossing on the Scotland route (ELR ECA2).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
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On today’s timetable, Kirknewton crossing is predicted to be closed for about 7 h 49 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 95 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 07:52–08:52 in the morning and around 13:03–14:03 in the middle of the day. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Kirknewton is a manually-controlled barrier with obstacle detection crossing (MCBOD) on the Cobbinshaw Sig EJ712–Haymarket 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 415 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 74.3% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±6s (9 in 10 within 137s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.