Manually-controlled barrier with obstacle detection level crossing on the East Midlands route (ELR SPD2).
| 01:04 | 6V85 | 🚛 | TINSLYY → ACTONTC | → from Sleaford | no show |
| 01:32 | 4L88 | 🚛 | LEEDFLT → THMSFLI | → from Sleaford | -8 min |
| 01:43 | 4L39 | 🚛 | NORMGBF → TLBYTCG | → from Sleaford | -6 min |
On today’s timetable, Sleaford North crossing is predicted to be closed for about 2 h 32 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 33 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 06:34–07:34 in the morning and around 17:16–18:16 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Sleaford North is a manually-controlled barrier with obstacle detection crossing (MCBOD) on the Peterborough North Yd GBRf–Sleaford line (East Midlands route · ELR SPD2). 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 194 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 98.9% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±23s (9 in 10 within 107s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.