Signal-box-controlled level crossing on the Western route (ELR WEY).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 06:33 | 🚆 2V69 | Yeovil Pen Mill → Gloucester Up (W → E) | active |
| 06:34 | 🚃 3O69 | St. Philips Mrsh H S T D → Yeovil Pen Mill Down (E → W) | +33 min |
| 06:40 | 🚃 5O24 | Salisbury Reception Line → Yeovil Pen Mill Down (E → W) | +5 min |
| 06:47 | 🚄 1A70 | Plymouth → London Paddington Up (W → E) | +5 min |
On today’s timetable, Castle Cary crossing is predicted to be closed for about 4 h 40 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 58 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 (01:58–02:01, 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 10:23–11:23 in the morning and around 13:37–14:37 in the middle of the day. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Castle Cary is a signal-box-controlled crossing (SBC) on the Frome–Yeovil Pen Mill line (Western route · ELR WEY). 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 162 trains through this crossing.
99.4% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.3% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±4s (9 in 10 within 17s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.