CCTV-monitored manual barrier level crossing on the Western route (ELR DCL).
Information only. Always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 09:52 | 🚄 1V82 | Newcastle → Reading Up (N → S) | +1 min |
| 09:58 | 🚛 4O15 | Lawley Street F.L.T. → Southampton M.C.T. Up (N → S) | no show |
| 09:58 | 🚛 6A16 | Whatley Quarry F Liner HH → Oxford Banbury Road Down (S → N) | approaching |
| 10:01 | 🚄 1E32 | Reading → York Down (S → N) | +1 min |
| 10:02 | 🚛 4M37 | Southampton W.Docks → Hams Hall GBRF Down (S → N) | no show |
| 10:04 | 🚛 4M32 | Southampton W.Docks → Hams Hall GBRF Down (S → N) | +2 min |
| 10:07 | 🚄 1D17 | Oxford → London Paddington Up (N → S) | approaching |
| 10:13 | 🚛 4O14 | Garston F.L.T. → Southampton M.C.T. Up (N → S) | +2 min |
| 10:14 | 🚄 1N56 | Bristol Temple Meads → Oxford Down (S → N) | +3 min |
| 10:15 | 🚆 2L22 | Didcot Parkway → Oxford Down (S → N) | active |
| 10:18 | 🚧 6M26 | Eastleigh East Yard → Mountsorrell GBRF Down (S → N) | no show |
| 10:21 | 🚛 6A33 | Whatley Quarry F Liner HH → Appleford FHH Down (S → N) | no show |
| 10:24 | 🚄 1D18 | London Paddington → Oxford Down (S → N) | +16 min |
| 10:27 | 🚆 2V19 | Banbury → Didcot Parkway Up (N → S) | +3 min |
| 10:29 | 🚄 1O08 | Manchester Piccadilly → Bournemouth Up (N → S) | +2 min |
On today’s timetable, Appleford crossing is predicted to be closed for about 10 h 50 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 98 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 18 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: 18.7 min (07:22–07:41, 7 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 08:19–09:19 in the morning and around 17:19–18:19 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
The crossing is in Appleford-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.
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 1,516 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 98.6% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±7s (9 in 10 within 60s). This scores when trains pass: barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.