Manually-controlled barrier level crossing on the East Midlands route (ELR GRS2).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 18:26 | 🚆 2O24 | Skegness → Nottingham Up | +4 min |
| 18:39 | 🚆 2K26 | Peterborough → Lincoln Down | approaching |
| 18:49 | 🚆 2K25 | Lincoln → Peterborough Down | active |
On today’s timetable, Sleaford East crossing is predicted to be closed for about 4 h 16 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 57 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 5 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 (07:15–07:19, 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 09:12–10:12 in the morning and around 18:19–19:19 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Sleaford East is a manually-controlled barrier crossing (MCB/MB) on the Grantham–Boston line (East Midlands route · ELR GRS2). 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 94 trains through this crossing.
98.9% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.7% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±55s (9 in 10 within 168s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.