Automatic half-barrier level crossing on the North and East route (ELR DRA1).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 04:15 | 🚃 4D84 | Drax Power Station → Hull Biomass LP (DBS) Up (NE → SW) | sched |
| 04:29 | 🚃 6B50 | Immingham Biomass LP (DBS) → Drax Power Station Down (SW → NE) | no show |
| 04:42 | 🚃 6H44 | Tyne Coal Terminal GBRf → Drax AES Down (SW → NE) | no show |
On today’s timetable, West Bank Hall crossing is predicted to be closed for about 44 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 17 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 06:00–07:00 in the morning and around 19:56–20:56 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
West Bank Hall is a automatic half-barrier crossing (AHB) on the Hensall Jn–Drax PS line (North and East route · ELR DRA1). 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 120 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 97.8% of the warnings we could verify came true.