Automatic half-barrier level crossing on the Western route (ELR SWM1).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 07:36 | 🚄 1G03 | London Paddington → Cheltenham Spa Down (E → W) | approaching |
On today’s timetable, Purton Collins Lane crossing is predicted to be closed for about 1 h 24 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 35 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 (05:45–05:47, 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 06:36–07:36 in the morning and around 13:44–14:44 in the middle of the day. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Purton Collins Lane is a automatic half-barrier crossing (AHB-X) on the Swindon–Stroud line (Western route · ELR SWM1). 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 258 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.6% of the warnings we could verify came true.