CCTV-monitored manual barrier level crossing on the North West route (ELR FHR4).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 06:52 | 🚆 2N80 | Colne → Preston Up (E → W) | +1 min |
| 06:53 | 🚄 1B16 | Blackpool North → York Down (W → E) | approaching |
| 07:10 | 🚛 6C78 | Ashton in Makerfld KS GBRF → Ribblehead VQ GBRF Down (W → E) | no show |
| 07:10 | 🚛 6C78 | Tuebrook Sdg GBRF → Ribblehead VQ GBRF Down (W → E) | no show |
| 07:14 | 🚛 6E78 | Leyland Sidings GBRF → Doncaster Down Decoy GBRF Down (W → E) | sched |
On today’s timetable, Hospital crossing is predicted to be closed for about 3 h 48 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 50 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.
Longest closure so far today: 3.2 min (05:23–05:27, 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 06:00–07:00 in the morning and around 13:08–14:08 in the middle of the day. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Hospital is a cctv-monitored manual barrier crossing (CCTV) on the Preston Croft Street Sdgs–Preston line (North West route · ELR FHR4). 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 516 trains through this crossing.
99.8% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.6% of the warnings we could verify came true.