Spondon level crossing

Manually-controlled barrier with obstacle detection level crossing on the East Midlands route (ELR SPC6).

right now
CLOSED
for 8s
next: 🚛 in 8 min · 1 min late

Next 30 min

CLOSED 01:11–01:11 8s
OPEN 01:11–01:16 5m
CLOSED 01:16–01:19 3m
OPEN 01:19–01:25 6m
CLOSED 01:25–01:32 7m
OPEN 01:32–01:42 → 9m
Under the hood
Fri 24 Jul · 01:11
Today Tomorrow

Trains in window

01:11 6L01 🚛 TUNSFHH → BARHFHH → from Derby +6 min
01:12 3J88 🚧 STAPLCE → STAPLFD ← from Long Eaton no show
01:19 6V91 🚛 ERLEFHH → THEALAF → from Derby +1 min
01:21 6M59 🚛 BARHFHH → TUNSFHH ← from Long Eaton no show
01:27 6L99 🚛 PEAKRMC → RPLLSTO → from Derby no show
01:28 6E68 🚛 KNGSBOS → IMNGHOR → from Derby active
01:32 6M97 🚛 WTHRFHH → TUNSFHH ← from Long Eaton active
01:33 6L99 🚛 PEAKUSG → RPLLSTO → from Derby no show
🚛Freight 🚧Engineering
now 01:11:11 · 355 avg · 8 in window
lx berths down: DY/5033→DY/[email protected] · up: DY/5044→DY/[email protected]
timetable cif full+upd 2026-07-22..2026-07-24
fetched 23:44:56
trust 33,086 active · 30,123 delays · 1,793 cancelled · 0 reconnects
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About this crossing

How often it closes

On today’s timetable, Spondon crossing is predicted to be closed for about 10 h 53 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 107 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 19 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: 6.4 min (00:16–00:23, 3 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.

Worst times to cross today

Closures cluster around 10:04–11:04 in the morning and around 13:28–14:28 in the middle of the day. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.

About this crossing

Spondon is a manually-controlled barrier with obstacle detection crossing (MCBOD) on the Long Eaton–Derby line (East Midlands route · ELR SPC6). 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.

How accurate is this forecast?

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 90.0% of the warnings we could verify came true.

Typical timing error was ±16s (9 in 10 within 47s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.

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