CCTV-monitored manual barrier level crossing on the North West route (ELR FHR4).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 07:50 | 🚆 2N81 | Colne → Preston Up (NE → SW) | passed |
| 07:53 | 🚄 1B18 | Blackpool North → York Down (SW → NE) | approaching |
On today’s timetable, Mintholme crossing is predicted to be closed for about 4 h 40 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 66 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 5 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: 3.2 min (05:23–05:27, 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 06:00–07:00 in the morning and around 13:06–14:06 in the middle of the day. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Mintholme is a cctv-monitored manual barrier crossing (CCTV) on the Preston Croft Street Sdgs–Blackburn line (North West route · ELR FHR4). 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 516 trains through this crossing.
99.8% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.6% of the warnings we could verify came true.