Manually-controlled barrier level crossing on the Scotland route (ELR SCM4).
Information only. Always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 09:49 | 🚄 1H09 | Edinburgh → Inverness Down (W → E) | +1 min |
| 09:57 | 🚄 1L57 | Glasgow Queen St High Level → Dundee Down (W → E) | +1 min |
| 10:01 | 🚄 1T20 | Dundee → Glasgow Queen St High Level Up (E → W) | +2 min |
| 10:17 | 🚄 1E13 | Inverness → London Kings Cross Up (E → W) | on time |
| 10:21 | 🚄 1A37 | Glasgow Queen St High Level → Aberdeen Down (W → E) | on time |
On today’s timetable, Blackford crossing is predicted to be closed for about 6 h 58 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 84 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.
Closures cluster around 07:30–08:30 in the morning and around 13:54–14:54 in the middle of the day. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
The crossing is on the B8081 in Blackford, Perth and Kinross.
Blackford is a manually-controlled barrier crossing (MCB/MB) on the Dunblane–Perth line (Scotland route · ELR SCM4). 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.
Our accuracy measurement doesn't cover this crossing yet. Reports from people at the crossing are the ground truth here. How we measure →