Automatic half-barrier level crossing on the Western route (ELR CCL).
Information only. Always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 09:53 | 🚄 1A76 | Penzance → London Paddington Up (W → E) | +4 min |
| 10:17 | 🚄 1A77 | Plymouth → London Paddington Up (W → E) | +4 min |
On today’s timetable, Athelney crossing is predicted to be closed for about 1 h 53 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 47 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 2 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 (06:25–06:26, 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 10:37–11:37 in the morning and around 13:30–14:30 in the middle of the day. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
The crossing is on Curload in Athelney, Somerset.
Athelney is a automatic half-barrier crossing (AHB) on the Castle Cary–Taunton line (Western route · ELR CCL). 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 122 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 95.9% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±1s (9 in 10 within 3s). This scores when trains pass: barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.