Manually-controlled barrier with obstacle detection level crossing on the North West route (ELR WSJ2).
| 01:17 | 1W89 | 🚄 | CRDFCEN → CREWE | ← from Chester Middle Yard | on time |
On today’s timetable, Balderton crossing is predicted to be closed for about 6 h 17 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 67 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 15 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 06:52–07:52 in the morning and around 14:22–15:22 in the afternoon. 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.
Our accuracy measurement doesn't cover this crossing yet. Reports from people at the crossing are the ground truth here. How we measure →