Manually-controlled barrier level crossing on the Wales route (ELR SWM2).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 07:08 | 🚄 1B28 | Milford Haven → Cardiff Central Up (NW → SE) | no show |
| 07:26 | 🚄 1B30 | Cardiff Central → Milford Haven Down (SE → NW) | on time |
| 07:41 | 🚄 1L12 | Carmarthen → London Paddington Up (NW → SE) | active |
On today’s timetable, Kidwelly crossing is predicted to be closed for about 3 h 42 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 47 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 (00:16–00:19, 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 07:47–08:47 in the morning and around 12:12–13:12 in the middle of the day. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Kidwelly is a manually-controlled barrier crossing (MCB/MB) on the Llanelli–Carmarthen line (Wales route · ELR SWM2). 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 240 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 98.3% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±21s (9 in 10 within 102s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.