Signal-box-controlled level crossing on the Western route (ELR WEY).
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On today’s timetable, Castle Cary crossing is predicted to be closed for about 7 h 17 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 75 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.
Closures cluster around 06:28–07:28 in the morning and around 12:18–13:18 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 251 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 58.5% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±68s (9 in 10 within 710s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.