CCTV-monitored manual barrier level crossing on the East Coast route (ELR ECM7).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 09:16 | 🚄 1S03 | London Kings Cross → Aberdeen Down (SW → NE) | on time |
| 09:20 | 🚄 1V54 | Glasgow Central High Level → Plymouth Up (NE → SW) | on time |
| 09:24 | 🚄 1S04 | London Kings Cross → Edinburgh Down (SW → NE) | approaching |
| 09:32 | 🚄 9S09 | Newcastle → Edinburgh Down (SW → NE) | on time |
| 09:36 | 🚄 1E82 | Edinburgh → London Kings Cross Up (NE → SW) | on time |
| 09:39 | 🚄 1E07 | Edinburgh → London Kings Cross Up (NE → SW) | -1 min |
| 09:51 | 🚄 1S31 | Birmingham New Street → Edinburgh Down (SW → NE) | -1 min |
| 09:54 | 🚛 6E90 | Oxwellmains Lafarge Colas Rail → Seaham Harbour Colas Rail Up (NE → SW) | no show |
On today’s timetable, Morpeth North crossing is predicted to be closed for about 7 h 35 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 98 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: 3.2 min (05:17–05:20, 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 10:51–11:51 in the morning and around 12:51–13:51 in the middle of the day. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Morpeth North is a cctv-monitored manual barrier crossing (CCTV) on the Morpeth–Chathill line (East Coast route · ELR ECM7). 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.
We score this page against what actually happened on the railway — over the last 7 days that covered 435 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 49.5% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±58s (9 in 10 within 230s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.