Fiddlers Ferry UWCmsl level crossing

User-worked with stop lights level crossing on the North West route (ELR SDJ2).

right now
OPEN
for at least 2h

Next 30 min

OPEN 01:17–03:17+ 2h+
Under the hood
Fri 24 Jul · 01:17
Today Tomorrow

Trains in window

No trains in the next 30 minutes.
now 01:17:42 · 96 avg · 0 in window
lx berths down: XL/0083→XL/[email protected] · up: XE/H086→XE/[email protected]
timetable cif full+upd 2026-07-22..2026-07-24
fetched 23:44:56
trust 33,087 active · 30,126 delays · 1,796 cancelled · 0 reconnects
About this crossing

How often it closes

On today’s timetable, Fiddlers Ferry UWCmsl crossing is predicted to be closed for about 2 h 6 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 87 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 (00:11–00:11, 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.

Worst times to cross today

Closures cluster around 08:44–09:44 in the morning and around 19:43–20:43 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.

About this crossing

Fiddlers Ferry UWCmsl is a user-worked with stop lights crossing (UWCMSL) on the Arpley Sidings–Halewood (Jaguar Cars) line (North West route · ELR SDJ2). 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 840 trains through this crossing.

99.2% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 98.4% of the warnings we could verify came true.

Typical timing error was ±40s (9 in 10 within 114s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.

Full accuracy report →

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