Manual gate level crossing on the Wales route (ELR SWM2).
Information only. Always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 09:52 | 🚆 2G54 | Cardiff Central → Cheltenham Spa Up (W → E) | +22 min |
| 09:56 | 🚄 1F11 | Cardiff Central → Portsmouth Harbour Up (W → E) | +7 min |
| 09:56 | 🚆 2U08 | Taunton → Cardiff Central Down (E → W) | passed |
| 09:58 | 🚛 6C92 | Margam TC GBRF → Portbury Auto Terminal GBF Up (W → E) | cancelled |
| 10:00 | 🚄 1B06 | London Paddington → Cardiff Central Down (E → W) | approaching |
| 10:05 | 🚄 1S43 | Cardiff Central → Edinburgh Up (W → E) | -1 min |
| 10:08 | 🚄 1L13 | Cardiff Central → London Paddington Up (W → E) | on time |
| 10:09 | 🚄 1V04 | Nottingham → Cardiff Central Down (E → W) | +1 min |
| 10:13 | 🚛 4L33 | Cardiff Wentloog IFT → London Gateway Frghtliner Up (W → E) | -10 min |
| 10:20 | 🚆 2C71 | Cardiff Central → Exeter St. David's Up (W → E) | active |
| 10:27 | 🚄 1F08 | Portsmouth Harbour → Cardiff Central Down (E → W) | on time |
| 10:29 | 🚄 1B07 | London Paddington → Swansea Down (E → W) | +10 min |
| 10:30 | 🚆 2G56 | Cardiff Central → Cheltenham Spa Up (W → E) | active |
On today’s timetable, Bishton crossing is predicted to be closed for about 9 h 59 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 116 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 10 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: 8.4 min (09:00–09:08, 5 trains), 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 10:44–11:44 in the morning and around 16:45–17:45 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
The crossing is on Bishton Road in Bishton, Newport.
Bishton is a manual gate crossing (MG) on the Stoke Gifford IEP Depot–Llanwern Exchange Sdgs line (Wales route · ELR SWM2). A signaller or crossing keeper closes the gates across the road 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 1,260 trains through this crossing.
99.8% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 95.3% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±1s (9 in 10 within 9s). This scores when trains pass: barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.