Automatic open level crossing with barriers level crossing on the Wales route (ELR SBA2).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 04:59 | 🚆 2J39 | Machynlleth → Aberystwyth Down (N → S) | +1 min |
On today’s timetable, Borth Capel Soar crossing is predicted to be closed for about 1 h 8 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 29 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 2 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 10:07–11:07 in the morning and around 16:06–17:06 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Borth Capel Soar is a automatic open level crossing with barriers crossing (AOCLB) on the Down–Aberystwyth line (Wales route · ELR SBA2). The approaching train itself triggers the closure at a fixed point on its approach. 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 112 trains through this crossing.
99.1% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 96.8% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±702s (9 in 10 within 774s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.