Portobello Junction level crossing

CCTV-monitored manual barrier level crossing on the Central route (ELR PBJ).

right now
OPEN
for 26 min
next: 🚧 in 29 min · running

Next 30 min

OPEN 00:15–00:41 26m
CLOSED 00:41–00:45 3m
OPEN 00:45–00:58 → 13m
Under the hood
Fri 24 Jul · 00:15
Today Tomorrow

Trains in window

00:14 1S04 🚄 BHAMINT → MOSEDNY ← from Soho LMD no show
00:15 6S01 🚛 BCSTGBF → GLDLGBF ← from Soho LMD no show
00:26 6H63 🚛 SMLHGBR → HNDLGBR ← from Soho LMD no show
00:44 6K03 🚧 BSCTESD → CREWBHM ← from Soho LMD active
🚄Express passenger 🚛Freight 🚧Engineering
now 00:15:56 · 351 avg · 4 in window
lx berths up: SV/4242→SV/[email protected] · up: SV/7240→SV/[email protected]
timetable cif full+upd 2026-07-22..2026-07-24
fetched 23:44:56
trust 33,036 active · 29,996 delays · 1,739 cancelled · 0 reconnects
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About this crossing

How often it closes

On today’s timetable, Portobello Junction crossing is predicted to be closed for about 11 h 17 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 94 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 22 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.

Worst times to cross today

Closures cluster around 06:36–07:36 in the morning and around 15:20–16:20 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.

About this crossing

Portobello Junction is a cctv-monitored manual barrier crossing (CCTV) on the Soho LMD–Wolverhampton line (Central route · ELR PBJ). 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.

How accurate is this forecast?

We score this page against what actually happened on the railway — over the last 7 days that covered 904 trains through this crossing.

99.7% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 77.3% of the warnings we could verify came true.

Typical timing error was ±8s (9 in 10 within 50s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.

Full accuracy report →

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