CCTV-monitored manual barrier level crossing on the Wales route (ELR SWM2).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 07:10 | 🚄 1M00 | Cardiff Central → Nottingham Up (W → E) | +1 min |
| 07:18 | 🚛 6M51 | Cardiff Tidal T.C. → Burton OT West Yard FT Up (W → E) | cancelled |
| 07:28 | 🚄 1V02 | Birmingham New Street → Cardiff Central Down (E → W) | approaching |
| 07:38 | 🚆 2G50 | Cardiff Central → Cheltenham Spa Up (W → E) | -1 min |
| 07:45 | 🚛 6M81 | Margam T.C. → Round Oak Up (W → E) | no show |
On today’s timetable, Caldicot crossing is predicted to be closed for about 5 h 17 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 67 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 8 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: 3.2 min (00:14–00:17, 1 train), 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 09:28–10:28 in the morning and around 18:25–19:25 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Caldicot is a cctv-monitored manual barrier crossing (CCTV) on the Stoke Gifford IEP Depot–Severn Tunnel Junction line (Wales route · ELR SWM2). 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 378 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 95.2% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±23s (9 in 10 within 137s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.