CCTV-monitored manual barrier level crossing on the East Midlands route (ELR SPC6).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 04:45 | 🚄 1C01 | Derby → London St. Pancras Up (NW → SE) | -1 min |
| 04:51 | 🚄 1B04 | Derby → London St. Pancras Up (NW → SE) | passed |
On today’s timetable, Sawley crossing is predicted to be closed for about 8 h 54 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 111 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 9 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: 3.2 min (00:14–00:18, 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 06:57–07:57 in the morning and around 16:30–17:30 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Sawley is a cctv-monitored manual barrier crossing (CCTV) on the Down–Derby line (East Midlands route · ELR SPC6). 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 1,364 trains through this crossing.
99.6% 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 ±6s (9 in 10 within 243s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.