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.
| 04:54 | 🚛 6B51 | Llanwern Exchange Sdgs → Swindon Stores Up (W → E) | sched |
| 05:15 | 🚛 6B18 | Westbury Down T.C. → Alexandra Dock Jn. T.C. Down (E → W) | no show |
| 05:28 | 🚄 1L01 | Swansea → London Paddington Up (W → E) | -6 min |
On today’s timetable, Bishton crossing is predicted to be closed for about 9 h 23 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 117 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: 3.2 min (00:06–00:09, 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 06:46–07:46 in the morning and around 16:10–17:10 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Bishton is a manual gate crossing (MG) on the Lydney–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 1,227 trains through this crossing.
99.1% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 94.5% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±1s (9 in 10 within 15s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.