Automatic half-barrier level crossing on the Western route (ELR DCL).
| 01:35 | 5U79 | 🚃 | OXFD → BNBRDPT | ← from Oxford | active |
| 01:39 | 4O97 | 🚛 | LEEDFLT → SOTOMCT | → from Banbury | no show |
On today’s timetable, Sandy Lane crossing is predicted to be closed for about 3 h 14 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 75 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: 1.5 min (00:47–00:48, 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 06:50–07:50 in the morning and around 18:56–19:56 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Sandy Lane is a automatic half-barrier crossing (AHB-X) on the Oxford–Banbury line (Western route · ELR DCL). 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 6 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 90.0% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±81s (9 in 10 within 146s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.