Manual gate level crossing on the Wales route (ELR SWM2).
| 01:59 | 6A52 | 🚛 | EUSKFHH → WDRYFRY | → from Llanwern Exchange Sdgs | no show |
On today’s timetable, Bishton crossing is predicted to be closed for about 9 h 25 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 95 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 13 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: 6.2 min (00:02–00:08, 2 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 08:59–09:59 in the morning and around 19:10–20:10 in the evening. 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 18 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 66.7% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±42s (9 in 10 within 221s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.