Automatic half-barrier level crossing on the East Coast route (ELR CJS).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 04:47 | 🚃 4R47 | Drax Power Station → Immingham Biomass LP (DBS) Up (W → E) | -34 min |
| 05:22 | 🚃 4R47 | Drax Power Station → Immingham Biomass LP (DBS) Up (W → E) | no show |
| 05:25 | 🚛 6H58 | Immingham Biomass LP (DBS) → Drax Power Station Down (E → W) | -25 min |
On today’s timetable, Thorpe Road crossing is predicted to be closed for about 37 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 12 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 2 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 (00:52–00:54, 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 10:07–11:07 in the morning and around 12:29–13:29 in the middle of the day. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Thorpe Road is a automatic half-barrier crossing (AHB) on the Scunthorpe Trent T.C.–Knottingley T.M.D. line (East Coast route · ELR CJS). 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 166 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.5% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±8s (9 in 10 within 149s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.