Litlington level crossing

Automatic half-barrier level crossing on the East Coast route (ELR SBR).

right now
OPEN
for 1 min
next: 🚆 in 2 min · 5 min late

Next 30 min

OPEN 00:14–00:15 1m
CLOSED 00:15–00:17 2m
OPEN 00:17–00:22 6m
CLOSED 00:22–00:24 2m
OPEN 00:24–00:41 17m
CLOSED 00:41–00:42 2m
OPEN 00:42–00:59 → 17m
Under the hood
Fri 24 Jul · 00:14
Today Tomorrow

Trains in window

00:09 1T97 🚄 KLYNN → KNGX ← from Letchworth A/D Line on time
00:15 5H88 🚃 ILFEMUD → CAMBCSN → from Royston Loop no show
00:16 2C70 🚆 KNGX → CAMBDGE ← from Letchworth A/D Line approaching
00:23 9S68 🚄 BRGHTN → CAMBDGE ← from Letchworth A/D Line +2 min
00:42 2H72 🚆 LIVST → CAMBDGE → from Royston Loop -1 min
🚄Express passenger 🚆Passenger 🚃Empty stock
now 00:14:18 · 415 avg · 5 in window
lx berths down: Y8/0971→Y8/[email protected] · up: Y8/0980→Y8/[email protected]
timetable cif full+upd 2026-07-22..2026-07-24
fetched 23:44:56
trust 33,034 active · 29,995 delays · 1,738 cancelled · 0 reconnects
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About this crossing

How often it closes

On today’s timetable, Litlington crossing is predicted to be closed for about 9 h 50 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 164 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: 1.5 min (23:59–00:00, 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.

Worst times to cross today

Closures cluster around 09:06–10:06 in the morning and around 14:13–15:13 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.

About this crossing

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.

How accurate is this forecast?

We score this page against what actually happened on the railway — over the last 7 days that covered 16 trains through this crossing.

100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 95.9% of the warnings we could verify came true.

Typical timing error was ±29s (9 in 10 within 109s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.

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