CCTV-monitored manual barrier level crossing on the West Coast South route (ELR CMD1).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 06:39 | 🚆 2H89 | Stoke-on-Trent → Manchester Piccadilly Down (SW → NE) | +3 min |
| 06:47 | 🚄 1R11 | Manchester Piccadilly → London Euston Up (NE → SW) | passed |
| 06:50 | 🚃 5H82 | Stockport Car. M.D. → Stoke-on-Trent Up (NE → SW) | approaching |
| 06:57 | 🚄 1H09 | Birmingham New Street → Manchester Piccadilly Down (SW → NE) | approaching |
| 06:59 | 🚄 9R26 | Manchester Piccadilly → London Euston Up (NE → SW) | +3 min |
| 07:04 | 🚄 1R16 | Manchester Piccadilly → London Euston Up (NE → SW) | +2 min |
| 07:06 | 🚆 2H81 | Stoke-on-Trent → Manchester Piccadilly Down (SW → NE) | active |
On today’s timetable, Mow Cop crossing is predicted to be closed for about 8 h between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 97 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 7 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 (00:02–00:06, 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 08:27–09:27 in the morning and around 16:00–17:00 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Mow Cop is a cctv-monitored manual barrier crossing (CCTV) on the Crewe–Macclesfield line (West Coast South route · ELR CMD1). 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 1,029 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.2% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±3s (9 in 10 within 10s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.