Automatic half-barrier level crossing on the Western route (ELR BAG2).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 07:20 | 🚄 1V41 | Birmingham New Street → Paignton Down (N → S) | +1 min |
| 07:21 | 🚄 1S35 | Bristol Temple Meads → Edinburgh Up (S → N) | +2 min |
| 07:26 | 🚄 1L98 | Bristol Temple Meads → Stansted Airport Up (S → N) | no reports |
| 07:26 | 🚆 2T08 | Worcester Foregate Street → Bristol Temple Meads Down (N → S) | +1 min |
| 07:30 | 🚆 2E48 | Bristol Temple Meads → Worcester Shrub Hill Up (S → N) | -3 min |
| 07:40 | 🚄 1L66 | Worcester Shrub Hill → London Paddington Down (N → S) | active |
| 07:40 | 🚄 1G01 | Swindon → Worcester Shrub Hill Up (S → N) | on time |
On today’s timetable, Northway crossing is predicted to be closed for about 4 h 35 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 97 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: 1.5 min (05:51–05:53, 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 07:18–08:18 in the morning and around 18:04–19:04 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Northway is a automatic half-barrier crossing (AHB) on the Worcestershire Parkway HL–Cheltenham Spa line (Western route · ELR BAG2). 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 425 trains through this crossing.
99.3% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.0% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±49s (9 in 10 within 124s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.