CCTV-monitored manual barrier level crossing on the East Coast route (ELR ECM1).
Information only. Always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 09:53 | 🚄 9J21 | Peterborough → Horsham Up (N → S) | no show |
| 09:55 | 🚄 1E02 | Edinburgh → London Kings Cross Up (N → S) | +2 min |
| 10:03 | 🚄 1Y81 | Middlesbrough → London Kings Cross Up (N → S) | -1 min |
| 10:04 | 🚄 1S10 | London Kings Cross → Edinburgh Down (S → N) | +5 min |
| 10:07 | 🚄 1A11 | Bradford Forster Square → London Kings Cross Up (N → S) | +22 min |
| 10:08 | ❓ 0O65 | Peterboro Maint Shed GBRF → Tonbridge West Yard GBRf Up (N → S) | no show |
| 10:12 | 🚄 1E80 | Edinburgh → London Kings Cross Up (N → S) | +5 min |
| 10:14 | 🚄 1N04 | London Kings Cross → Newcastle Down (S → N) | +8 min |
| 10:16 | 🚄 1D09 | London Kings Cross → Bradford Forster Square Down (S → N) | +4 min |
| 10:16 | 🚄 1N82 | London Kings Cross → York Down (S → N) | +1 min |
| 10:18 | 🚄 9J18 | Horsham → Peterborough Down (S → N) | +10 min |
| 10:21 | 🚄 1A12 | Leeds → London Kings Cross Up (N → S) | on time |
| 10:22 | 🚄 9J23 | Peterborough → Horsham Up (N → S) | active |
| 10:28 | 🚄 1E03 | Edinburgh → London Kings Cross Up (N → S) | +2 min |
| 10:31 | 🚄 1S11 | London Kings Cross → Edinburgh Down (S → N) | active |
On today’s timetable, Tempsford crossing is predicted to be closed for about 13 h 17 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 106 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 22 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: 8.0 min (09:39–09:47, 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.
Closures cluster around 09:49–10:49 in the morning and around 12:00–13:00 in the middle of the day. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
The crossing is on Station Road near Tempsford, Bedfordshire.
Tempsford is a CCTV-monitored manual barrier crossing (CCTV) on the Sandy South Pos Light P3–St. Neots line (East Coast route · ELR ECM1). 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.
We score this page against what actually happened on the railway: over the last 7 days that covered 780 trains through this crossing.
99.9% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.3% of the warnings we could verify came true.