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.
| 10:38 | 🚧 3S09 | Liverpool Lime Street HL/ML → Wigan Diesel Depot TC Up (N → S) | -5 min |
| 10:48 | 🚄 1K08 | Wrexham General → Crewe Down (S → N) | active |
| 10:48 | 🚄 1J62 | Crewe → Wrexham General Up (N → S) | approaching |
| 11:07 | 🚃 5P45 | Crewe H.S. → Coton Hill T.C. Up (N → S) | no show |
| 11:13 | 🚄 1D12 | Birmingham International → Llandudno Junction Down (S → N) | on time |
On today’s timetable, Balderton crossing is predicted to be closed for about 3 h 50 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 55 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 (05:09–05:12, 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 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.
The crossing is on Lache Lane near Chester, Cheshire.
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 100.0% of the warnings we could verify came true.