Manually-controlled barrier with obstacle detection level crossing on the North West route (ELR WBS3).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 07:48 | 🚆 2W44 | Southport → Stalybridge Up (W → E) | passed |
| 07:54 | 🚆 2W03 | Stalybridge → Southport Down (E → W) | on time |
| 08:08 | 🚆 2W04 | Manchester Oxford Road → Southport Down (E → W) | -1 min |
| 08:20 | 🚆 2O72 | Southport → Manchester Oxford Road Up (W → E) | active |
On today’s timetable, Four Lane Ends crossing is predicted to be closed for about 4 h 20 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 62 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: 3.2 min (06:17–06:20, 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 07:51–08:51 in the morning and around 12:44–13:44 in the middle of the day. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Four Lane Ends is a manually-controlled barrier with obstacle detection crossing (MCBOD) on the Wigan Wallgate C.S.–Southport line (North West route · ELR WBS3). An obstacle-detection system scans the crossing and confirms it is clear before the barriers lower automatically. 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 194 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 98.8% of the warnings we could verify came true.