Automatic half-barrier level crossing on the East Midlands route (ELR NOG1).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 11:10 | 🚄 1R66 | Norwich → Liverpool Lime Street HL/ML Down (E → W) | approaching |
| 11:16 | 🚆 2S13 | Nottingham → Skegness Up (W → E) | +5 min |
| 11:29 | 🚆 2O08 | Skegness → Nottingham Down (E → W) | +33 min |
On today’s timetable, Normanton crossing is predicted to be closed for about 2 h 6 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 43 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: 2.9 min (06:56–06:59, 2 trains), 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 10:12–11:12 in the morning and around 14:23–15:23 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Normanton is a automatic half-barrier crossing (AHB-X) on the Grantham–Elton & Orston line (East Midlands route · ELR NOG1). 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 440 trains through this crossing.
99.3% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.0% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±225s (9 in 10 within 488s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.