CCTV-monitored manual barrier level crossing on the East Coast route (ELR ECM7).
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On today’s timetable, Smeafield crossing is predicted to be closed for about 7 h between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 81 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 11 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 06:14–07:14 in the morning and around 17:40–18:40 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Smeafield is a cctv-monitored manual barrier crossing (CCTV) on the Chathill–Berwick-upon-Tweed 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.
We score this page against what actually happened on the railway — over the last 7 days that covered 6 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 100.0% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±115s (9 in 10 within 380s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.