Automatic open level crossing level crossing on the Western route (ELR PAC).
| 02:34 | 6A52 | 🚛 | EUSKFHH → WDRYFRY | → from Bristol Brabazon | sched |
On today’s timetable, Filton Tip crossing is predicted to be closed for about 3 h 20 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 70 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 4 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: 3.9 min (00:21–00:25, 2 trains), 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 10:10–11:10 in the morning and around 14:08–15:08 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Filton Tip is a automatic open level crossing crossing (AOCL) on the Stoke Gifford FHH–Bristol Brabazon line (Western route · ELR PAC). The approaching train itself triggers the closure at a fixed point on its approach. 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 667 trains through this crossing.
84.6% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 94.1% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±58s (9 in 10 within 216s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.