Automatic half-barrier level crossing on the Central route (ELR BAG2).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 02:09 | 🚛 6M94 | Margam T.C. → Corby B.S.C. Up (S → N) | -22 min |
On today’s timetable, Pirton crossing is predicted to be closed for about 4 h 43 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 103 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.
Closures cluster around 07:11–08:11 in the morning and around 14:14–15:14 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Pirton is a automatic half-barrier crossing (AHB) on the Worcestershire Parkway HL–Cheltenham Spa line (Central 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 419 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 98.9% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±38s (9 in 10 within 233s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.