CCTV-monitored manual barrier level crossing on the Western route (ELR BHL).
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On today’s timetable, Hamstead crossing is predicted to be closed for about 5 h 27 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 68 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 7 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.
Closures cluster around 10:23–11:23 in the morning and around 12:00–13:00 in the middle of the day. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Hamstead is a cctv-monitored manual barrier crossing (CCTV) on the Theale Puma–Bedwyn line (Western route · ELR BHL). A signaller monitors the crossing, confirms it is clear, and lowers the barriers ahead of each train. 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 111 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 98.9% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±44s (9 in 10 within 777s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.