CCTV-monitored manual barrier level crossing on the Wessex route (ELR BAE2).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
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On today’s timetable, Chard Junction crossing is predicted to be closed for about 1 h 3 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 15 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 3 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 (00:04–00:08, 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 09:54–10:54 in the morning and around 12:00–13:00 in the middle of the day. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Chard Junction is a cctv-monitored manual barrier crossing (CCTV) on the Crewkerne–Honiton line (Wessex route · ELR BAE2). 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 130 trains through this crossing.
96.9% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 98.5% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±193s (9 in 10 within 531s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.