CCTV-monitored manual barrier level crossing on the Wales route (ELR SWM2).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 02:13 | 🚧 6Y41 | Park Jn → Westbury Down T.C. Down (NE → SW) | -91 min |
| 02:36 | 🚛 6V02 | Tees N.Y. → Margam T.C. Down (NE → SW) | no show |
On today’s timetable, Pencoed crossing is predicted to be closed for about 7 h 49 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 92 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 10 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: 3.5 min (00:03–00:06, 2 trains), 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 06:43–07:43 in the morning and around 17:06–18:06 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Pencoed is a cctv-monitored manual barrier crossing (CCTV) on the Pontyclun–Bridgend line (Wales route · ELR SWM2). 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 1,024 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 ±27s (9 in 10 within 148s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.