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.
| 07:13 | 🚄 1P59 | Manchester Airport → Redcar Central Down (S → N) | +7 min |
| 07:22 | 🚛 6E55 | Cardiff Tidal T.C. → Sunderland Ward Bros Down (S → N) | no show |
| 07:31 | 🚛 6D11 | Tees Dock BSC Export Berth → Gascoigne Wood Up (FHH) Up (N → S) | no show |
| 07:37 | 🚄 1P62 | Redcar Central → Manchester Airport Up (N → S) | on time |
| 07:47 | 🚄 1A60 | Sunderland → London Kings Cross Up (N → S) | +3 min |
On today’s timetable, Springwell Lane crossing is predicted to be closed for about 2 h 3 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 54 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 5 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: 3.9 min (06:00–06:04, 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 07:27–08:27 in the morning and around 18:45–19:45 in the evening. 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 1,092 trains through this crossing.
99.9% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.8% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±22s (9 in 10 within 125s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.