Automatic barrier locally monitored level crossing on the Wales route (ELR SBA2).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 07:04 | 🚄 1I08 | Aberystwyth → Birmingham International Up | approaching |
| 07:14 | 🚆 2J41 | Machynlleth → Aberystwyth Down | on time |
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 (05:08–05:09, 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 10:17–11:17 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.
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.
We score this page against what actually happened on the railway — over the last 7 days that covered 212 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 97.6% of the warnings we could verify came true.