CCTV-monitored manual barrier level crossing on the Scotland route (ELR WCM1).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 03:12 | 🚛 6S03 | Kingmoor Down Recess SDGs → Mossend PD Stirling GBRf Down (E → W) | active |
| 03:35 | 🚄 1S04 | Birmingham International → Mossend Down Yard Down (E → W) | no show |
On today’s timetable, Cove crossing is predicted to be closed for about 6 h 48 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 80 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 10 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 (00:23–00:26, 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 09:43–10:43 in the morning and around 17:42–18:42 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Cove is a cctv-monitored manual barrier crossing (CCTV) on the Carlisle Network Yard–Lockerbie line (Scotland route · ELR WCM1). 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 821 trains through this crossing.
99.9% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.2% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±3s (9 in 10 within 219s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.