Chester Station level crossing

Signal-box-controlled level crossing on the North West route (ELR CNH1).

right now
OPEN
for 13 min
next: 🚃 in 16 min · 4 min early

Next 30 min

OPEN 00:16–00:29 13m
CLOSED 00:29–00:32 3m
OPEN 00:32–00:36 4m
CLOSED 00:36–00:39 3m
OPEN 00:39–00:42 3m
CLOSED 00:42–00:46 → 4m
Under the hood
Fri 24 Jul · 00:16
Today Tomorrow

Trains in window

00:07 6M39 🚛 MRTNFHH → ELSTORS → from Chester D.M.U.D. no show
00:13 5K16 🚃 CHSTRDD → CREWESY → from Chester D.M.U.D. -1 min
00:32 5K76 🚃 SHRWBY → CREWECS → from Chester D.M.U.D. -4 min
00:39 2D59 🚆 MNCRPIC → CHST ← from Chester Middle Yard -1 min
00:45 1W85 🚄 CRDFCEN → CHST → from Chester D.M.U.D. +7 min
00:46 5W85 🚃 CHST → CHSTRDD → from Chester D.M.U.D. active
🚄Express passenger 🚆Passenger 🚃Empty stock 🚛Freight
now 00:16:02 · 319 avg · 6 in window
lx berths up: CS/0026→CS/[email protected]
timetable cif full+upd 2026-07-22..2026-07-24
fetched 23:44:56
trust 33,036 active · 29,996 delays · 1,739 cancelled · 0 reconnects
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About this crossing

How often it closes

On today’s timetable, Chester Station crossing is predicted to be closed for about 11 h 9 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 87 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 23 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.

Worst times to cross today

Closures cluster around 06:44–07:44 in the morning and around 17:27–18:27 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.

About this crossing

Chester Station is a signal-box-controlled crossing (SBC) on the Chester Middle Yard–Chester D.M.U.D. line (North West route · ELR CNH1). 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.

How accurate is this forecast?

We score this page against what actually happened on the railway — over the last 7 days that covered 1 trains through this crossing.

100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 93.8% of the warnings we could verify came true.

Typical timing error was ±23s (9 in 10 within 23s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.

Full accuracy report →

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