Manually-controlled barrier with obstacle detection level crossing on the North and East route (ELR CPM1).
| 01:13 | 6E27 | 🚃 | LVRPGBF → DRAXGBR | ← from Pontefract Tanshelf | cancelled |
On today’s timetable, Skinner Lane crossing is predicted to be closed for about 5 h 46 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 76 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.
Closures cluster around 07:13–08:13 in the morning and around 19:41–20:41 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Skinner Lane is a manually-controlled barrier with obstacle detection crossing (MCBOD) on the Pontefract Tanshelf–Knottingley line (North and East route · ELR CPM1). An obstacle-detection system scans the crossing and confirms it is clear before the barriers lower automatically. 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 286 trains through this crossing.
99.7% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 95.4% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±70s (9 in 10 within 125s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.