User-worked with stop lights level crossing on the Western route (ELR BHL).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 13:02 | 🚄 1C80 | London Paddington → Plymouth Down (NE → SW) | passed |
| 13:12 | 🚛 6V95 | Wembley Receptions 1-7 → Merehead Quarry (FHH) Down (NE → SW) | approaching |
| 13:15 | 🚄 1A81 | Paignton → London Paddington Up (SW → NE) | approaching |
| 13:24 | 🚛 6A70 | Whatley Quarry → Appleford FHH Up (SW → NE) | no show |
On today’s timetable, Crofton crossing is predicted to be closed for about 1 h 29 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 52 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 2 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: 0.6 min (00:25–00:25, 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 10:48–11:48 in the morning and around 12:35–13:35 in the middle of the day. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Crofton is a user-worked with stop lights crossing (UWCMSL) on the Newbury–Pewsey line (Western route · ELR BHL). 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 419 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.4% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±6s (9 in 10 within 229s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.