Manually-controlled barrier with obstacle detection level crossing on the North West route (ELR WSJ2).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 05:16 | 🚃 5J03 | Chester → Wrexham General Up (N → S) | active |
On today’s timetable, Balderton crossing is predicted to be closed for about 3 h 47 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 54 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 6 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 06:20–07:20 in the morning and around 20:16–21:16 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Balderton is a manually-controlled barrier with obstacle detection crossing (MCBOD) on the Chester Middle Yard–Chester line (North West route · ELR WSJ2). An obstacle-detection system scans the crossing and confirms it is clear before the barriers lower automatically. 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 226 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.5% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±3s (9 in 10 within 350s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.