CCTV-monitored manual barrier level crossing on the East Coast route (ELR ECM7).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 07:12 | 🚄 1E80 | Edinburgh → London Kings Cross Up (N → S) | on time |
| 07:15 | 🚄 1E03 | Edinburgh → London Kings Cross Up (N → S) | approaching |
| 07:26 | ❓ 0E15 | Millerhill S.S. → Doncaster Down Decoy GBRF Up (N → S) | no show |
| 07:33 | 🚄 1S01 | Doncaster → Edinburgh Down (S → N) | on time |
| 07:35 | 🚛 4S99 | Tees Dock BSC Export Berth → Grangemouth TDG Down (S → N) | -1 min |
On today’s timetable, Smeafield crossing is predicted to be closed for about 6 h 55 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 83 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 8 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: 4.8 min (06:04–06:09, 2 trains), 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 10:36–11:36 in the morning and around 12:58–13:58 in the middle of the day. 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 846 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.4% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±203s (9 in 10 within 239s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.