CCTV-monitored manual barrier level crossing on the Central route (ELR OXD).
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On today’s timetable, Bicester London Road crossing is predicted to be closed for about 3 h 58 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 50 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 7 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 (00:12–00:15, 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 07:38–08:38 in the morning and around 15:40–16:40 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Bicester London Road is a cctv-monitored manual barrier crossing (CCTV) on the Oxford Parkway–Bicester Gavray Junction line (Central route · ELR OXD). 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 278 trains through this crossing.
97.5% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.3% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±62s (9 in 10 within 112s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.