CCTV-monitored manual barrier level crossing on the Western route (ELR DCL).
| 02:05 | 4O97 | 🚛 | LEEDFLT → SOTOMCT | → from Hinksey Sdgs | no show |
| 02:13 | 6M38 | 🚛 | SOTDED → HALWJAG | ← from Didcot T.C. | cancelled |
On today’s timetable, Appleford crossing is predicted to be closed for about 10 h 40 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 88 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 16 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: 3.8 min (00:22–00:26, 2 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 08:20–09:20 in the morning and around 12:14–13:14 in the middle of the day. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Appleford is a cctv-monitored manual barrier crossing (CCTV) on the Didcot T.C.–Hinksey Sdgs line (Western route · ELR DCL). 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 1,482 trains through this crossing.
99.8% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 93.6% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±32s (9 in 10 within 127s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.