Automatic half-barrier level crossing on the Wales route (ELR SWM2).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 18:07 | 🚆 2E36 | Swansea → Fishguard Harbour Down (S → N) | +2 min |
| 18:16 | 🚄 1B52 | Milford Haven → Cardiff Central Up (N → S) | on time |
On today’s timetable, Penybedd crossing is predicted to be closed for about 2 h 22 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 56 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 (00:14–00:16, 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 09:40–10:40 in the morning and around 16:05–17:05 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Penybedd is a automatic half-barrier crossing (AHB) on the Llanelli–Carmarthen line (Wales route · ELR SWM2). 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 239 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.1% of the warnings we could verify came true.