Manually-controlled barrier with obstacle detection level crossing on the North West route (ELR WBS3).
Information only. Always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 09:53 | 🚆 2W48 | Southport → Stalybridge Up (NW → SE) | +3 min |
| 10:09 | 🚆 2W07 | Stalybridge → Southport Down (SE → NW) | +5 min |
| 10:22 | 🚆 2W08 | Manchester Oxford Road → Southport Down (SE → NW) | cancelled |
| 10:23 | 🚆 2O74 | Southport → Manchester Oxford Road Up (NW → SE) | active |
On today’s timetable, Chapel Lane crossing is predicted to be closed for about 3 h 48 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 50 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.
Closures cluster around 06:05–07:05 in the morning and around 20:46–21:46 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
The crossing is on Chapel Lane in Parbold, Lancashire.
Chapel Lane is a manually-controlled barrier with obstacle detection crossing (MCBOD) on the Wigan Wallgate C.S.–Southport line (North West route · ELR WBS3). An obstacle-detection system scans the crossing and confirms it is clear before the barriers lower automatically. 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.
Our accuracy measurement doesn't cover this crossing yet. Reports from people at the crossing are the ground truth here. How we measure →