CCTV-monitored manual barrier level crossing on the West Coast South route (ELR CMD2).
| 01:33 | 4M60 | 🚛 | THMSFLI → TRFDFLT | ← from Stafford | no show |
| 01:36 | 4M60 | 🚛 | THMSFLI → TRFDFLT | ← from Stafford | no show |
On today’s timetable, Barlaston crossing is predicted to be closed for about 8 h 49 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 102 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.
Longest closure so far today: 3.2 min (00:26–00:29, 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 10:06–11:06 in the morning and around 12:58–13:58 in the middle of the day. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Barlaston is a cctv-monitored manual barrier crossing (CCTV) on the Stafford–Wedgwood line (West Coast South route · ELR CMD2). A signaller monitors the crossing, confirms it is clear, and lowers the barriers ahead of each train. 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 5 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 55.6% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±23s (9 in 10 within 65s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.