Manually-controlled barrier with obstacle detection level crossing on the Wales route (ELR SWM2).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 17:50 | 🚆 2E36 | Swansea → Fishguard Harbour Down (SE → NW) | approaching |
| 18:04 | 🚆 2M14 | Swansea → Shrewsbury Down (SE → NW) | on time |
On today’s timetable, Llanelli West crossing is predicted to be closed for about 5 h 3 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 65 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: 15.1 min (16:45–17:01, 4 trains), 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 07:32–08:32 in the morning and around 18:05–19:05 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Llanelli West is a manually-controlled barrier with obstacle detection crossing (MCBOD) on the Neath–Carmarthen line (Wales route · ELR SWM2). An obstacle-detection system scans the crossing and confirms it is clear before the barriers lower automatically. 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 564 trains through this crossing.
99.1% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.2% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±73s (9 in 10 within 510s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.