Manually-controlled barrier level crossing on the Western route (ELR MLN3).
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On today’s timetable, Lostwithiel crossing is predicted to be closed for about 4 h 45 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 57 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 8 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.
Closures cluster around 06:01–07:01 in the morning and around 17:29–18:29 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Lostwithiel is a manually-controlled barrier crossing (MCB/MB) on the Bodmin Parkway–Par line (Western route · ELR MLN3). 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 503 trains through this crossing.
98.6% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 98.9% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±64s (9 in 10 within 135s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.