Automatic half-barrier level crossing on the East Coast route (ELR LEN3).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 02:22 | 🚃 6H45 | Tyne Coal Terminal GBRf → Drax AES Up (NW → SE) | active |
On today’s timetable, Tile Shed crossing is predicted to be closed for about 7 h 52 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 147 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 6 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.
Closures cluster around 09:02–10:02 in the morning and around 14:51–15:51 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Tile Shed is a automatic half-barrier crossing (AHB) on the Sunderland–Tyne Coal Terminal GBRf line (East Coast route · ELR LEN3). 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 776 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 82.8% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±4s (9 in 10 within 10s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.