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.
| 17:43 | 🚄 1V62 | Edinburgh → Plymouth Down (N → S) | +2 min |
| 17:49 | 🚄 1M61 | Paignton → Manchester Piccadilly Up (S → N) | +4 min |
| 18:01 | 🚛 6V30 | Handsworth Queens Head Sdgs → Alexandra Dock Jn. T.C. Down (N → S) | no reports |
| 18:07 | 🚄 1V13 | Nottingham → Cardiff Central Down (N → S) | on time |
| 18:08 | 🚄 1M75 | Cardiff Central → Nottingham Up (S → N) | +3 min |
| 18:13 | 🚆 2T50 | Worcester Shrub Hill → Bristol Temple Meads Down (N → S) | active |
| 18:14 | 🚆 2E70 | Bristol Temple Meads → Worcester Foregate Street Up (S → N) | +16 min |
On today’s timetable, Northway crossing is predicted to be closed for about 4 h 42 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 99 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 (01:05–01:07, 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 09:54–10:54 in the morning and around 17:43–18:43 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 327 trains through this crossing.
99.1% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 96.4% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±50s (9 in 10 within 125s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.