Automatic half-barrier level crossing on the Scotland route (ELR AYR4).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 06:52 | 🚧 3S90 | Bridgeton Yard GBRf → Mauchline Down (N → S) | approaching |
| 06:53 | 🚄 1K06 | Ayr → Glasgow Central High Level Up (S → N) | approaching |
| 07:01 | 🚃 5F54 | Ayr C.S.D. → Ardrossan South Beach Up (S → N) | -5 min |
| 07:06 | 🚄 1K03 | Glasgow Central High Level → Ayr Down (N → S) | +1 min |
On today’s timetable, Gailes crossing is predicted to be closed for about 2 h 56 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 70 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 3 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: 1.5 min (00:02–00:04, 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 06:06–07:06 in the morning and around 17:10–18:10 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Gailes is a automatic half-barrier crossing (AHB-X) on the Kilwinning–Barassie line (Scotland route · ELR AYR4). 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 576 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 100.0% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±1s (9 in 10 within 8s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.