Long Lane level crossing

CCTV-monitored manual barrier level crossing on the East Coast route (ELR LEN3).

predicted
OPEN
for 7 min

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

next: 🚛 in 12 min · 45 min early

Next 30 min

OPEN 02:11–02:19 7m
CLOSED 02:19–02:24 5m
OPEN 02:24–04:11+ 1h+
Under the hood
Mon 07 Sep · 02:11
Today Tomorrow

Trains in window

02:23 🚛 6D97 Lackenby B.S.C.Scunthorpe B.S.C.(Ent.C.) Up (NE → SW) -45 min
🚛Freight
now 02:11:51 · 97 avg · 1 in window
live observation: 1 up · 0 down
timetable cif full+upd 2026-09-06..2026-09-08
fetched 02:08:15
trust 48,282 active · 21,043 delays · 2,870 cancelled · 0 reconnects
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About this crossing

How often it closes

On today’s timetable, Long Lane crossing is predicted to be closed for about 4 h 2 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 53 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: 3.2 min (00:43–00:46, 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 07:30–08:30 in the morning and around 17:05–18:05 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.

About this crossing

Long Lane is a cctv-monitored manual barrier crossing (CCTV) on the Northallerton–Up line (East Coast route · ELR LEN3). 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 218 trains through this crossing.

97.7% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.8% of the warnings we could verify came true.

Typical timing error was ±463s (9 in 10 within 806s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.

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