Automatic half-barrier level crossing on the Scotland route (ELR NEM7).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 06:57 | 🚆 2H04 | Helensburgh Central → Edinburgh Up (N → S) | passed |
| 07:03 | 🚆 2H37 | Dalmuir → Helensburgh Central Down (S → N) | approaching |
| 07:28 | 🚆 2H06 | Helensburgh Central → Edinburgh Up (N → S) | active |
On today’s timetable, Ardmore East crossing is predicted to be closed for about 3 h 7 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 67 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 4 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: 1.5 min (00:01–00:03, 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 10:21–11:21 in the morning and around 20:03–21:03 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Ardmore East is a automatic half-barrier crossing (AHB-X) on the Dalmuir–Helensburgh Central line (Scotland route · ELR NEM7). The approaching train itself triggers the closure at a fixed point on its approach. 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 621 trains through this crossing.
99.8% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.7% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±27s (9 in 10 within 152s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.