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.
| 07:45 | 🚄 1J93 | Chester → Shrewsbury Up (N → S) | on time |
| 07:50 | 🚄 1K05 | Wrexham General → Crewe Down (S → N) | active |
| 07:50 | 🚄 1J56 | Crewe → Wrexham General Up (N → S) | approaching |
On today’s timetable, Balderton crossing is predicted to be closed for about 3 h 43 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 54 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 5 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: 3.2 min (05:15–05:18, 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 06:20–07:20 in the morning and around 19:46–20:46 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 268 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.4% of the warnings we could verify came true.