Manually-controlled barrier level crossing on the North West route (ELR SDJ2).
| 00:08 | 4M98 | 🚛 | SOTOMCT → GRSTNFT | ← from Arpley Sidings | +5 min |
| 00:21 | 2M97 | 🚆 | LVRPLSH → MNCRPIC | → from Halewood (Jaguar Cars) | +6 min |
| 00:37 | 1F39 | 🚄 | EUSTON → LVRPLSH | ← from Arpley Sidings | active |
On today’s timetable, Monks Siding crossing is predicted to be closed for about 12 h 22 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 92 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 33 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: 4.3 min (00:02–00:06, 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 06:03–07:03 in the morning and around 18:08–19:08 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Monks Siding is a manually-controlled barrier crossing (MCB/MB) on the Arpley Sidings–Halewood (Jaguar Cars) line (North West route · ELR SDJ2). 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 1,006 trains through this crossing.
88.4% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 58.0% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±34s (9 in 10 within 101s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.