CCTV-monitored manual barrier level crossing on the Western route (ELR NEW).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 07:06 | 🚆 2N02 | Par → Newquay Down (S → N) | no show |
On today’s timetable, Middleway crossing is predicted to be closed for about 2 h 38 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 35 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 4 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: 4.0 min (06:30–06:34, 2 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 08:40–09:40 in the morning and around 18:07–19:07 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Middleway is a cctv-monitored manual barrier crossing (CCTV) on the Par–Goonbarrow Junction EW&S line (Western route · ELR NEW). 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 140 trains through this crossing.
77.9% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.1% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±33s (9 in 10 within 89s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.