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.
| 17:45 | 🚄 1B22 | London Paddington → Carmarthen Down (E → W) | passed |
| 17:48 | 🚄 1F27 | Cardiff Central → Portsmouth Harbour Up (W → E) | approaching |
| 17:55 | 🚆 2U24 | Exeter St. David's → Cardiff Central Down (E → W) | +4 min |
| 18:05 | 🚄 1M95 | Cardiff Central → Nottingham Up (W → E) | on time |
| 18:09 | 🚄 1L29 | Cardiff Central → London Paddington Up (W → E) | active |
| 18:10 | 🚄 1V12 | Nottingham → Cardiff Central Down (E → W) | on time |
| 18:20 | 🚆 2C87 | Cardiff Central → Penzance Up (W → E) | active |
On today’s timetable, Bishton crossing is predicted to be closed for about 9 h 52 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: 11.4 min (11:31–11:42, 4 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 07:39–08:39 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.
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 1,197 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 93.7% 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.