Manually-controlled barrier level crossing on the North West route (ELR CBC1).
Information only. Always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 07:02 | 🚆 2T37 | Barrow-in-Furness → Corkickle Down (S → N) | +1 min |
| 07:27 | 🚛 6C71 | Barrow Ramsden Dock → Sellafield B.N.F. Down (S → N) | sched |
| 07:30 | 🚄 1Y93 | Millom → Manchester Airport Up (N → S) | active |
On today’s timetable, Askam crossing is predicted to be closed for about 1 h 43 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 22 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 7 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.
Closures cluster around 06:00–07:00 in the morning and around 14:32–15:32 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
The crossing is in Askam-in-Furness, Cumbria, next to Askam station.
Askam is a manually-controlled barrier crossing (MCB/MB) on the Barrow-in-Furness–Millom line (North West route · ELR CBC1). 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.
Our accuracy measurement doesn't cover this crossing yet. Reports from people at the crossing are the ground truth here. How we measure →