Manual gate level crossing on the North and East route (ELR WAG1).
| 01:07 | 6E27 | 🚃 | LVRPGBF → DRAXGBR | ← from Wakefield Kirkgate | cancelled |
| 01:17 | 1B52 | ❓ | ? → ? | ← from Wakefield Kirkgate | approaching |
On today’s timetable, Red Lane (mgh) crossing is predicted to be closed for about 2 h 38 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 32 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 6 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: 6.8 min (00:10–00:17, 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 07:19–08:19 in the morning and around 19:52–20:52 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Red Lane (mgh) is a manual gate crossing (MGH) on the Wakefield Kirkgate–Knottingley line (North and East route · ELR WAG1). A signaller or crossing keeper closes the gates across the road 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 186 trains through this crossing.
90.9% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 90.5% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±42s (9 in 10 within 101s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.