Manual gate level crossing on the East Coast route (ELR ECM7).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
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On today’s timetable, Spittal (mgh) crossing is predicted to be closed for about 6 h 42 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 84 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 9 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 10:51–11:51 in the morning and around 13:11–14:11 in the middle of the day. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Spittal (mgh) is a manual gate crossing (MGH) on the Chathill–Berwick-upon-Tweed line (East Coast route · ELR ECM7). A signaller or crossing keeper closes the gates across the road 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 ±124s (9 in 10 within 411s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.