CCTV-monitored manual barrier level crossing on the East Coast route (ELR ECM1).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 18:09 | 🚄 1A29 | Harrogate → London Kings Cross Up (NW → SE) | +1 min |
| 18:13 | 🚄 1Y18 | Newcastle → London Kings Cross Up (NW → SE) | +1 min |
| 18:14 | 🚄 1S25 | London Kings Cross → Edinburgh Down (SE → NW) | passed |
| 18:23 | 🚄 1D24 | London Kings Cross → Leeds Down (SE → NW) | approaching |
| 18:27 | 🚄 1E86 | Edinburgh → London Kings Cross Up (NW → SE) | on time |
| 18:30 | 🚄 1A96 | Hull → London Kings Cross Up (NW → SE) | on time |
| 18:36 | 🚄 1A30 | Leeds → London Kings Cross Up (NW → SE) | +1 min |
| 18:47 | 🚄 1S26 | London Kings Cross → Edinburgh Down (SE → NW) | +12 min |
| 18:48 | 🚄 1E21 | Edinburgh → London Kings Cross Up (NW → SE) | +3 min |
| 18:48 | 🚄 1B91 | Lincoln → London Kings Cross Up (NW → SE) | active |
On today’s timetable, Osterfen crossing is predicted to be closed for about 11 h 18 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 105 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 16 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: 17.1 min (08:40–08:57, 8 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 07:55–08:55 in the morning and around 19:10–20:10 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Osterfen is a cctv-monitored manual barrier crossing (CCTV) on the Grantham–Newark North Gate line (East Coast route · ELR ECM1). 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 793 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.5% of the warnings we could verify came true.