Llanbadarn Fawr level crossing

Automatic barrier locally monitored level crossing on the Wales route (ELR SBA2).

predicted
OPEN
for 30 min

Information only. Always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.

next: 🚃 in 17 min · running

Next 30 min

OPEN 10:00–10:30 30m
CLOSED 10:30–10:31 → 2m
Under the hood
Thu 22 Oct · 10:00
Today Tomorrow

Trains in window

10:18 🚃 3C02 Machynlleth Carr. Sdgs → Aberystwyth Down no reports
10:31 🚃 3C03 Aberystwyth → Machynlleth Carr. Sdgs Up active
🚃Empty stock
now 10:00:51 · 37 avg · 2 in window
live observation: 1 up · 1 down
timetable cif full+upd 2026-10-21..2026-10-23
fetched 02:08:22
trust 33,174 active · 31,699 delays · 1,966 cancelled · 9 reconnects
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About this crossing

How often it closes

On today’s timetable, Llanbadarn Fawr crossing is predicted to be closed for about 1 h 8 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 30 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 2 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 (05:09–05:10, 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.

Worst times to cross today

Closures cluster around 07:15–08:15 in the morning and around 16:15–17:15 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.

About this crossing

The crossing is on Heol-y-Bont in Llanbadarn Fawr, Ceredigion, next to Llanbadarn station.

Llanbadarn Fawr is a automatic barrier locally monitored crossing (ABCL) on the Borth–Aberystwyth line (Wales route · ELR SBA2). 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.

How accurate is this forecast?

We score this page against what actually happened on the railway: over the last 7 days that covered 205 trains through this crossing.

100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 96.4% of the warnings we could verify came true.

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