CCTV-monitored manual barrier level crossing on the Central route (ELR OWW).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 07:57 | 🚆 2S21 | Kidderminster → Stratford-upon-Avon Down (SW → NE) | passed |
| 08:10 | 🚆 2V12 | Dorridge → Worcester Foregate Street Up (NE → SW) | approaching |
| 08:20 | 🚆 2D23 | Worcester Foregate Street → Stratford-upon-Avon Down (SW → NE) | +6 min |
| 08:24 | 🚆 2S25 | Kidderminster → Whitlocks End Down (SW → NE) | active |
| 08:24 | 🚆 2K14 | Stratford-upon-Avon → Kidderminster Up (NE → SW) | +1 min |
On today’s timetable, Blakedown Station crossing is predicted to be closed for about 8 h 46 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 112 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 7 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: 10.4 min (06:40–06:50, 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 07:11–08:11 in the morning and around 16:28–17:28 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Blakedown Station is a cctv-monitored manual barrier crossing (CCTV) on the Kidderminster–Stourbridge Junction line (Central route · ELR OWW). 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.
We score this page against what actually happened on the railway — over the last 7 days that covered 816 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 98.5% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±11s (9 in 10 within 126s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.