Lancing level crossing

CCTV-monitored manual barrier level crossing on the Sussex route (ELR BLI1).

right now
OPEN
for 10s
next: 🚄 in 3 min · 7 min late

Next 30 min

OPEN 00:12–00:12 10s
CLOSED 00:12–00:16 3m
OPEN 00:16–00:21 5m
CLOSED 00:21–00:28 7m
OPEN 00:28–00:29 2m
CLOSED 00:29–00:33 3m
OPEN 00:33–00:50 → 18m
Under the hood
Fri 24 Jul · 00:12
Today Tomorrow

Trains in window

00:05 2T92 🚆 BRGHTN → WWRTHNG ← from Shoreham-by-Sea +4 min
00:15 1H94 🚄 HYWRDSH → WORTHNG ← from Shoreham-by-Sea +7 min
00:24 5T93 🚃 WWRTHNG → LOVRSWS → from Worthing active
00:26 2S95 🚆 PHBR → BRGHTN → from Worthing +13 min
00:28 5H95 🚃 WORTHNG → LOVRSWS → from Worthing active
00:32 3S97 🚧 HORSHUS → HORSHUS → from Worthing no show
00:32 2T94 🚆 BRGHTN → WWRTHNG ← from Shoreham-by-Sea +1 min
00:40 1H96 🚄 VICTRIC → WORTHNG ← from Shoreham-by-Sea no show
🚄Express passenger 🚆Passenger 🚃Empty stock 🚧Engineering
now 00:12:48 · 233 avg · 8 in window
lx berths down: LA/0013→LA/[email protected] · down: LA/0019→LA/[email protected] · up: LA/0014→LA/[email protected] · up: LA/0018→LA/[email protected]
timetable cif full+upd 2026-07-22..2026-07-24
fetched 23:44:56
trust 33,034 active · 29,994 delays · 1,736 cancelled · 0 reconnects
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About this crossing

How often it closes

On today’s timetable, Lancing crossing is predicted to be closed for about 10 h 16 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 101 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.

Longest closure so far today: 3.8 min (00:00–00:04, 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 07:34–08:34 in the morning and around 13:12–14:12 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

Lancing is a cctv-monitored manual barrier crossing (CCTV) on the Shoreham-by-Sea–Worthing line (Sussex route · ELR BLI1). 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 1,416 trains through this crossing.

100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.5% of the warnings we could verify came true.

Typical timing error was ±79s (9 in 10 within 191s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.

Full accuracy report →

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