Automatic barrier locally monitored level crossing on the North West route (ELR KBS1).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 04:47 | 🚧 3S08 | Wigan Diesel Depot TC → Wigan Diesel Depot TC Down (N → S) | no show |
| 05:06 | 🚃 5S50 | Blackpool North Car MD → Blackpool South Down (N → S) | -3 min |
On today’s timetable, Moss Side crossing is predicted to be closed for about 1 h 30 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 32 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 2 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 06:06–07:06 in the morning and around 16:05–17:05 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Moss Side is a automatic barrier locally monitored crossing (ABCL) on the Preston–Blackpool South line (North West route · ELR KBS1). The approaching train itself triggers the closure at a fixed point on its approach. 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 113 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.5% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±17s (9 in 10 within 803s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.