CCTV-monitored manual barrier level crossing on the North West route (ELR KCS1).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 18:11 | 🚛 6K58 | Basford Hall Yard → Bradwell Up Sidings Colas Up (W → E) | cancelled |
| 18:20 | 🚆 2K83 | Stafford → Crewe Down (E → W) | +6 min |
| 18:30 | 🚄 1K73 | Lincoln → Crewe Down (E → W) | +1 min |
On today’s timetable, Alsager Station crossing is predicted to be closed for about 5 h 4 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 59 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 8 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: 10.2 min (07:29–07:39, 3 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 08:29–09:29 in the morning and around 17:54–18:54 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Alsager Station is a cctv-monitored manual barrier crossing (CCTV) on the Kidsgrove–Crewe line (North West route · ELR KCS1). 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.
We score this page against what actually happened on the railway — over the last 7 days that covered 508 trains through this crossing.
99.8% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 98.8% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±4s (9 in 10 within 14s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.