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.
| 06:47 | 🚆 2S51 | Blackpool South → Preston Up (S → N) | approaching |
| 07:04 | 🚆 2S60 | Preston → Blackpool South Down (N → S) | active |
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.
Longest closure so far today: 1.5 min (04:35–04:36, 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 06:06–07:06 in the morning and around 19:46–20:46 in the evening. 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 122 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 100.0% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±12s (9 in 10 within 85s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.