Automatic half-barrier level crossing on the North West route (ELR WBS3).
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On today’s timetable, Bescar Lane crossing is predicted to be closed for about 2 h 38 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 57 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 3 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 06:34–07:34 in the morning and around 18:33–19:33 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Bescar Lane is a automatic half-barrier crossing (AHB) on the Wigan Wallgate C.S.–Southport line (North West route · ELR WBS3). 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 490 trains through this crossing.
99.8% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 98.4% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±39s (9 in 10 within 144s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.