Acton Central level crossing

CCTV-monitored manual barrier level crossing on the Anglia route (ELR BOK5).

right now
CLOSED
for 2 min
next: 🚃 in 2 min · 2 min late

Next 30 min

CLOSED 00:16–00:18 2m
OPEN 00:18–00:24 6m
CLOSED 00:24–00:27 3m
OPEN 00:27–02:16+ 1h+
Under the hood
Fri 24 Jul · 00:16
Today Tomorrow

Trains in window

00:18 5N31 🚃 RICHNLL → WMBYLCS → from Gunnersbury approaching
🚃Empty stock
now 00:16:21 · 144 avg · 1 in window
lx berths down: AW/0101→AW/[email protected] · up: AW/0102→AW/[email protected]
timetable cif full+upd 2026-07-22..2026-07-24
fetched 23:44:56
trust 33,036 active · 29,996 delays · 1,739 cancelled · 0 reconnects
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About this crossing

How often it closes

On today’s timetable, Acton Central crossing is predicted to be closed for about 8 h 26 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 92 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 11 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: 3.2 min (23:57–00:00, 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.

Worst times to cross today

Closures cluster around 08:03–09:03 in the morning and around 20:29–21:29 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.

About this crossing

Acton Central is a cctv-monitored manual barrier crossing (CCTV) on the Willesden Jn. High Level–Gunnersbury line (Anglia route · ELR BOK5). A signaller monitors the crossing, confirms it is clear, and lowers the barriers 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 1,008 trains through this crossing.

100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.3% of the warnings we could verify came true.

Typical timing error was ±38s (9 in 10 within 121s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.

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