Automatic half-barrier level crossing on the East Coast route (ELR LLP2).
| 01:10 | 4M51 | 🚛 | STHBDRS → DIRFDR2 | → from Darlington | -6 min |
| 01:30 | 5Q10 | 🚛 | DLTN → YORK | → from Darlington | active |
| 01:36 | 6M26 | 🚛 | WLTNEFW → KNOWFT | → from Darlington | cancelled |
On today’s timetable, Springwell Lane crossing is predicted to be closed for about 8 h 4 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 156 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 8 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 (00:00–00:01, 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 10:15–11:15 in the morning and around 12:41–13:41 in the middle of the day. 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 1,527 trains through this crossing.
88.4% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 97.9% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±42s (9 in 10 within 1546s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.