Automatic half-barrier level crossing on the East Coast route (ELR SBR).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 04:51 | 🚃 5R03 | Letchworth C.S.D → Royston Down (SW → NE) | -7 min |
| 05:03 | 🚛 6L02 | Hanwell Bridge Loop → Chesterton Junction FHH Down (SW → NE) | approaching |
| 05:10 | 🚄 9S01 | Cambridge → Brighton Up (NE → SW) | on time |
| 05:18 | 🚆 2R03 | Royston → London Kings Cross Up (NE → SW) | active |
On today’s timetable, Litlington crossing is predicted to be closed for about 6 h 52 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 134 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 4 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 (00:05–00:07, 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 06:13–07:13 in the morning and around 18:31–19:31 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Litlington is a automatic half-barrier crossing (AHB) on the Letchworth A/D Line–Royston Loop line (East Coast route · ELR SBR). 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 1,013 trains through this crossing.
99.9% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 97.7% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±73s (9 in 10 within 140s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.