Automatic half-barrier level crossing on the Western route (ELR SWM1).
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On today’s timetable, Purton Collins Lane crossing is predicted to be closed for about 1 h 30 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 35 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 3 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 06:36–07:36 in the morning and around 17:27–18:27 in the evening. 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 1 trains through this crossing.
100.0% 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 ±128s (9 in 10 within 128s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.