Automatic half-barrier level crossing on the North and East route (ELR WAG1).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 02:14 | 🚛 6H50 | Immingham Biomass LP (DBS) → Drax Power Station Down (W → E) | -8 min |
| 02:25 | 🚃 4R45 | Drax Power Station → Immingham Biomass LP (DBS) Up (E → W) | approaching |
On today’s timetable, Snaith & Pontefract Highway crossing is predicted to be closed for about 1 h 6 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 23 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 2 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: 1.5 min (00:26–00:27, 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 06:02–07:02 in the morning and around 14:02–15:02 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Snaith & Pontefract Highway is a automatic half-barrier crossing (AHB-X) on the Whitley Bridge–Drax Power Station line (North and East route · ELR WAG1). The approaching train itself triggers the closure at a fixed point on its approach. 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 148 trains through this crossing.
91.2% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 98.3% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±4s (9 in 10 within 183s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.