Woodcroft level crossing

Manual gate level crossing on the East Coast route (ELR ECM1).

predicted
OPEN
for 57s

Information only. Always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.

next: πŸš„ in 4 min Β· 8 min late

Next 30 min

OPEN 09:59–10:00 57s
CLOSED 10:00–10:07 7m
OPEN 10:07–10:10 4m
CLOSED 10:10–10:14 3m
OPEN 10:14–10:20 6m
CLOSED 10:20–10:23 4m
OPEN 10:23–10:28 4m
CLOSED 10:28–10:40 β†’ 13m
Under the hood
Thu 22 Oct Β· 09:59
Today Tomorrow

Trains in window

09:53 πŸš„ 1E80 Edinburgh β†’ London Kings Cross Up (NW β†’ SE) +5 min
09:53 πŸš„ 1B82 London Kings Cross β†’ Lincoln Down (SE β†’ NW) +14 min
09:57 πŸš„ 1A12 Leeds β†’ London Kings Cross Up (NW β†’ SE) passed
10:03 πŸš„ 1S09 London Kings Cross β†’ Aberdeen Down (SE β†’ NW) approaching
10:05 πŸš„ 1H02 London Kings Cross β†’ Hull Down (SE β†’ NW) -2 min
10:06 πŸš„ 1E03 Edinburgh β†’ London Kings Cross Up (NW β†’ SE) approaching
10:07 πŸš„ 1D08 London Kings Cross β†’ Leeds Down (SE β†’ NW) +5 min
10:13 πŸš„ 1B83 Lincoln β†’ London Kings Cross Up (NW β†’ SE) +2 min
10:23 πŸš„ 1E04 Edinburgh β†’ London Kings Cross Up (NW β†’ SE) +8 min
10:23 πŸš„ 1S10 London Kings Cross β†’ Edinburgh Down (SE β†’ NW) +5 min
10:31 πŸš„ 1A92 Beverley β†’ London Kings Cross Up (NW β†’ SE) +8 min
πŸš„Express passenger
now 09:59:48 Β· 264 avg Β· 11 in window
live observation: 3 up Β· 1 down
timetable cif full+upd 2026-10-21..2026-10-23
fetched 02:08:22
trust 33,174 active Β· 31,699 delays Β· 1,963 cancelled Β· 9 reconnects
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About this crossing

How often it closes

On today’s timetable, Woodcroft crossing is predicted to be closed for about 11 h 53 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 100 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 15 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: 16.4 min (08:53–09:09, 5 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.

Worst times to cross today

Closures cluster around 09:22–10:22 in the morning and around 12:07–13:07 in the middle of the day. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.

About this crossing

The crossing is on Woodcroft Road near Etton, Cambridgeshire.

Woodcroft is a manual gate crossing (MGH) on the Peterborough North Yd GBRf–Grantham line (East Coast route · ELR ECM1). A signaller or crossing keeper closes the gates across the road 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.

How accurate is this forecast?

We score this page against what actually happened on the railway: over the last 7 days that covered 1,525 trains through this crossing.

99.9% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.4% of the warnings we could verify came true.

Typical timing error was Β±8s (9 in 10 within 18s). This scores when trains pass: barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.

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