Manually-controlled barrier level crossing on the Western route (ELR BAG2).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 04:47 | 🚛 6M29 | Cardiff Tidal T.C. → Kingsbury EMR Sidings Up (S → N) | no show |
| 05:19 | 🚃 3G14 | Stoke Gifford IEP Depot → Great Malvern Up (S → N) | -19 min |
| 05:21 | 🚛 6M27 | Cardiff Tidal T.C. → Saltley Dunns Siding Up (S → N) | no show |
On today’s timetable, Alstone crossing is predicted to be closed for about 7 h 19 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 92 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: 3.2 min (00:23–00:26, 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 07:11–08:11 in the morning and around 12:23–13:23 in the middle of the day. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Alstone is a manually-controlled barrier crossing (MCB/MB) on the Worcestershire Parkway HL–Cheltenham Spa line (Western route · ELR BAG2). 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 810 trains through this crossing.
57.4% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.0% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±9s (9 in 10 within 185s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.