CCTV-monitored manual barrier level crossing on the North West route (ELR PBN).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 07:48 | 🚄 1N52 | Manchester Airport → Blackpool North Down (NE → SW) | +1 min |
| 07:52 | 🚄 1N80 | Liverpool Lime Street HL/ML → Blackpool North Down (NE → SW) | passed |
| 07:57 | 🚄 1Y56 | Blackpool North → Manchester Airport Up (SW → NE) | approaching |
| 08:01 | 🚄 1B13 | Leeds → Blackpool North Down (NE → SW) | approaching |
| 08:08 | 🚆 2C07 | Blackpool North → Liverpool Lime Street HL/ML Up (SW → NE) | active |
| 08:19 | 🚄 1N53 | Manchester Airport → Blackpool North Down (NE → SW) | on time |
| 08:23 | 🚄 1B20 | Blackpool North → York Up (SW → NE) | active |
On today’s timetable, Carleton Crossing crossing is predicted to be closed for about 8 h 14 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 113 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 11 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: 6.1 min (07:46–07:52, 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 07:07–08:07 in the morning and around 20:03–21:03 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Carleton Crossing is a cctv-monitored manual barrier crossing (CCTV) on the Preston–Up line (North West route · ELR PBN). 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 1,005 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.5% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±8s (9 in 10 within 98s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.