Scremerston level crossing

CCTV-monitored manual barrier level crossing on the East Coast route (ELR ECM7).

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 02:26–04:26+ 2h+
Under the hood
Thu 15 Oct · 02:26
Today Tomorrow

Trains in window

No trains in the next 30 minutes.
now 02:26:06 · 154 avg · 0 in window
live observation: 2 up · 1 down
timetable cif full+upd 2026-10-14..2026-10-16
fetched 02:08:21
trust 32,458 active · 31,160 delays · 1,735 cancelled · 9 reconnects
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About this crossing

How often it closes

On today’s timetable, Scremerston crossing is predicted to be closed for about 6 h 49 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 82 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.

Longest closure so far today: 3.2 min (00:01–00:04, 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.

Worst times to cross today

Closures cluster around 06:15–07:15 in the morning and around 14:36–15:36 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 in Sea House, Northumberland.

Scremerston is a CCTV-monitored manual barrier crossing (CCTV) on the Chathill–Oxwellmains Lafarge Colas Rail line (East Coast route · ELR ECM7). 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.

How accurate is this forecast?

We score this page against what actually happened on the railway: over the last 7 days that covered 839 trains through this crossing.

99.9% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.6% of the warnings we could verify came true.

Typical timing error was ±2s (9 in 10 within 23s). This scores when trains pass: barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.

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