Automatic open level crossing with barriers level crossing on the Scotland route (ELR KYL).
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On today’s timetable, Balnacra crossing is predicted to be closed for about 21 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 8 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.
Closures cluster around 09:45–10:45 in the morning and around 14:30–15:30 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Balnacra is a automatic open level crossing with barriers crossing (AOCLB) on the Achnashellach–Kyle of Lochalsh line (Scotland route · ELR KYL). 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 18 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 97.4% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±1333s (9 in 10 within 1384s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.