Sudforth Lane level crossing

CCTV-monitored manual barrier level crossing on the North and East route (ELR WAG1).

predicted
CLOSED
for 3 min

Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.

next: 🚛 in 3 min · 8 min early

Next 30 min

CLOSED 02:11–02:14 3m
OPEN 02:14–02:37 23m
CLOSED 02:37–02:42 → 5m
Under the hood
Mon 07 Sep · 02:11
Today Tomorrow

Trains in window

02:14 🚛 6H50 Immingham Biomass LP (DBS)Drax Power Station Down (W → E) -8 min
02:41 🚃 4R45 Drax Power StationImmingham Biomass LP (DBS) Up (E → W) active
🚃Empty stock 🚛Freight
now 02:11:21 · 66 avg · 2 in window
live observation: 0 up · 3 down
timetable cif full+upd 2026-09-06..2026-09-08
fetched 02:08:15
trust 48,282 active · 21,043 delays · 2,870 cancelled · 0 reconnects
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About this crossing

How often it closes

On today’s timetable, Sudforth Lane crossing is predicted to be closed for about 2 h 51 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 30 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 7 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: 3.2 min (00:14–00:18, 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.

Worst times to cross today

Closures cluster around 07:36–08:36 in the morning and around 13:57–14:57 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

Sudforth Lane is a cctv-monitored manual barrier crossing (CCTV) on the Knottingley–Drax Power Station line (North and East route · ELR WAG1). A signaller monitors the crossing, confirms it is clear, and lowers the barriers 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.

How accurate is this forecast?

We score this page against what actually happened on the railway — over the last 7 days that covered 130 trains through this crossing.

97.7% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 97.8% of the warnings we could verify came true.

Typical timing error was ±163s (9 in 10 within 1075s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.

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