CCTV-monitored manual barrier level crossing on the West Coast South route (ELR BBM).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 16:57 | 🚆 2S23 | Bletchley → Bedford Down (SW → NE) | approaching |
| 17:15 | 🚃 5F60 | Northampton EMD → Kettering Stabling Sidings Down (SW → NE) | no show |
| 17:17 | 🚛 6Z51 | Wembley Receptions 1-7 → Hunslet Yard Down (SW → NE) | +11 min |
On today’s timetable, Bow Brickhill crossing is predicted to be closed for about 2 h 25 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 33 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 6 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: 7.0 min (10:55–11:02, 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 07:08–08:08 in the morning and around 20:50–21:50 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Bow Brickhill is a cctv-monitored manual barrier crossing (CCTV) on the Bletchley–Woburn Sands line (West Coast South route · ELR BBM). 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 226 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 100.0% of the warnings we could verify came true.