Manually-controlled barrier level crossing on the NI Railways route.
Information only. Always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 12:35 | 🚄 ? | Dublin Connolly → Belfast Grand Central Up | sched |
| 12:45 | 🚆 ? | Portadown → Belfast Grand Central Up | on time |
| 12:47 | 🚆 ? | Belfast Grand Central → Portadown Down | sched |
| 13:13 | 🚆 ? | Portadown → Belfast Grand Central Up | on time |
| 13:15 | 🚆 ? | Belfast Grand Central → Portadown Down | on time |
On today’s timetable, Lough Road crossing is predicted to be closed for about 8 h 32 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 58 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 19 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 08:02–09:02 in the morning and around 18:15–19:15 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
The crossing is on Lough Road in Derry, next to Lurgan station.
Lough Road is a manually-controlled barrier crossing (MCB) on the Moira–Portadown line (NI Railways route). 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.
Our accuracy measurement doesn't cover this crossing yet. Reports from people at the crossing are the ground truth here. How we measure →