Manually-controlled barrier with obstacle detection level crossing on the Wales route (ELR SYC).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 06:49 | 🚧 4G97 | Basford Hall Yard → Donnington RFT Up (N → S) | cancelled |
| 06:53 | 🚆 2K40 | Shrewsbury → Crewe Down (S → N) | no show |
| 06:59 | 🚆 2J44 | Crewe → Shrewsbury Up (N → S) | approaching |
| 07:05 | 🚄 1W11 | Cardiff Central → Manchester Piccadilly Down (S → N) | +1 min |
| 07:30 | 🚄 1V33 | Manchester Piccadilly → Cardiff Central Up (N → S) | +1 min |
On today’s timetable, Prees crossing is predicted to be closed for about 3 h 46 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 48 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 7 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: 3.2 min (04:47–04:51, 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 07:56–08:56 in the morning and around 12:27–13:27 in the middle of the day. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Prees is a manually-controlled barrier with obstacle detection crossing (MCBOD) on the Shrewsbury–Whitchurch (Shropshire) line (Wales route · ELR SYC). An obstacle-detection system scans the crossing and confirms it is clear before the barriers lower automatically. 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 197 trains through this crossing.
98.5% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 100.0% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±56s (9 in 10 within 197s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.