Manually-controlled barrier with obstacle detection level crossing on the East Midlands route (ELR SPD1).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 16:49 | 🚛 4L65 | Doncaster Railport → Felixstowe North GBRF Up (N → S) | no show |
| 17:05 | 🚆 2K21 | Lincoln → Peterborough Up (N → S) | approaching |
| 17:09 | 🚆 2K24 | Peterborough → Lincoln Down (S → N) | approaching |
| 17:14 | 🚛 4L08 | Wakefield Europort GBRF → London Gateway GBRF Up (N → S) | no show |
| 17:16 | 🚆 2K22 | Peterborough → Lincoln Down (S → N) | +1 min |
| 17:21 | 🚛 4E39 | Tilbury Container SRVS GB → Wakefield Europort GBRF Down (S → N) | -2 min |
On today’s timetable, Water Drove crossing is predicted to be closed for about 2 h between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 20 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: 6.7 min (13:01–13:08, 2 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 08:10–09:10 in the morning and around 19:36–20:36 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Water Drove is a manually-controlled barrier with obstacle detection crossing (MCBOD) on the Peterborough North Yd GBRf–Sleaford line (East Midlands route · ELR SPD1). An obstacle-detection system scans the crossing and confirms it is clear before the barriers lower automatically. 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 368 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 100.0% of the warnings we could verify came true.