Malting Lane level crossing

Automatic half-barrier level crossing on the East Midlands route (ELR SPD1).

right now
OPEN
for 1 min
next: 🚛 in 3 min · 11 min early

Next 30 min

OPEN 01:13–01:14 1m
CLOSED 01:14–01:16 2m
OPEN 01:16–01:38 23m
CLOSED 01:38–01:40 2m
OPEN 01:40–01:43 → 3m
Under the hood
Fri 24 Jul · 01:13
Today Tomorrow

Trains in window

01:15 4L20 🚛 DONCIGB → FLXSSGB → from Sleaford -11 min
01:17 6V85 🚛 TINSLYY → ACTONTC → from Sleaford no show
01:40 4E52 🚛 WLSDEUT → HRTLPDF ← from Peterborough North Yd GBRf +6 min
01:40 4E19 🚛 THMSLGB → DONCIGB ← from Peterborough North Yd GBRf +17 min
🚛Freight
now 01:13:07 · 117 avg · 4 in window
lx berths down: L2/LSDS→L2/[email protected] · up: L2/7078→L2/[email protected]
timetable cif full+upd 2026-07-22..2026-07-24
fetched 23:44:56
trust 33,087 active · 30,125 delays · 1,796 cancelled · 0 reconnects
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About this crossing

How often it closes

On today’s timetable, Malting Lane crossing is predicted to be closed for about 1 h 32 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 31 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 3 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 (00:13–00:14, 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 06:52–07:52 in the morning and around 18:59–19:59 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.

About this crossing

Malting Lane is a automatic half-barrier crossing (AHB-X) on the Peterborough North Yd GBRf–Sleaford line (East Midlands route · ELR SPD1). 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 4 trains through this crossing.

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

Typical timing error was ±152s (9 in 10 within 221s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.

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