Orston Lane level crossing

Manually-controlled barrier with obstacle detection level crossing on the East Midlands route (ELR NOG1).

predicted
OPEN
for at least 2h

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

Next 30 min

OPEN 02:12–04:12+ 2h+
Under the hood
Thu 15 Oct · 02:12
Today Tomorrow

Trains in window

No trains in the next 30 minutes.
now 02:12:23 · 71 avg · 0 in window
live observation: 1 up · 1 down
timetable cif full+upd 2026-10-14..2026-10-16
fetched 02:08:21
trust 32,442 active · 31,157 delays · 1,735 cancelled · 9 reconnects
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About this crossing

How often it closes

On today’s timetable, Orston Lane crossing is predicted to be closed for about 3 h 26 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 46 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 7 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.

Worst times to cross today

Closures cluster around 06:00–07:00 in the morning and around 16:19–17:19 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.

About this crossing

The crossing is on Orston Lane near Beckingthorpe, Leicestershire.

Orston Lane is a manually-controlled barrier with obstacle detection crossing (MCBOD) on the Grantham–Elton & Orston line (East Midlands route · ELR NOG1). An obstacle-detection system scans the crossing and confirms it is clear before the barriers lower automatically. 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 459 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 ±40s (9 in 10 within 66s). This scores when trains pass: barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.

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