Automatic half-barrier level crossing on the East Coast route (ELR LLP2).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 05:06 | 🚛 6N54 | Scunthorpe Trent T.C. → Sunderland Londonderry Sdg Down (S → N) | no show |
| 05:11 | 🚛 6E30 | Margam T.C. → Hartlepool BSC 20 Mill Down (S → N) | no show |
On today’s timetable, Springwell Lane crossing is predicted to be closed for about 2 h 8 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 55 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 3 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 (04:41–04:42, 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 07:27–08:27 in the morning and around 15:13–16:13 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Springwell Lane is a automatic half-barrier crossing (AHB) on the York–Darlington line (East Coast route · ELR LLP2). 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 1,072 trains through this crossing.
99.6% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.3% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±22s (9 in 10 within 189s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.