Kirton Lane level crossing

CCTV-monitored manual barrier level crossing on the East Coast route (ELR DOW).

predicted
OPEN
for 6 min

Information only. Always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.

next: 🚆 in 9 min · on time

Next 30 min

OPEN 10:01–10:06 6m
CLOSED 10:06–10:10 3m
OPEN 10:10–10:22 12m
CLOSED 10:22–10:25 3m
OPEN 10:25–10:50 → 25m
Under the hood
Thu 22 Oct · 10:01
Today Tomorrow

Trains in window

10:04 🚛 6H62 Immingham Biomass LP (DBS) → Drax Power Station Down (E → W) cancelled
10:09 🚆 2P06 Scunthorpe → Doncaster Down (E → W) on time
10:25 🚄 1B73 Cleethorpes → Liverpool Lime Street HL/ML Down (E → W) +1 min
🚄Express passenger 🚆Passenger 🚛Freight
now 10:01:08 · 140 avg · 3 in window
live observation: 1 up · 1 down
timetable cif full+upd 2026-10-21..2026-10-23
fetched 02:08:22
trust 33,174 active · 31,699 delays · 1,967 cancelled · 9 reconnects
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About this crossing

How often it closes

On today’s timetable, Kirton Lane crossing is predicted to be closed for about 4 h 28 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 55 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 8 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: 5.3 min (08:07–08:12, 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.

Worst times to cross today

Closures cluster around 08:06–09:06 in the morning and around 13:04–14:04 in the middle of the day. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.

About this crossing

The crossing is on Kirton Lane in Thorne, South Yorkshire.

Kirton Lane is a CCTV-monitored manual barrier crossing (CCTV) on the Scunthorpe–Knottingley T.M.D. line (East Coast route · ELR DOW). 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.

How accurate is this forecast?

We score this page against what actually happened on the railway: over the last 7 days that covered 538 trains through this crossing.

99.6% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.1% of the warnings we could verify came true.

Typical timing error was ±2s (9 in 10 within 85s). This scores when trains pass: barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.

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