CCTV-monitored manual barrier level crossing on the Western route (ELR MLN1).
Information only. Always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 09:51 | 🚆 2U12 | Exeter St. David's → Cardiff Central Up (S → N) | on time |
| 09:52 | 🚆 2T12 | Exmouth → Paignton Down (N → S) | no show |
| 09:53 | 🚃 5L40 | Exeter New Yard → Exeter St. David's Down (N → S) | no show |
| 09:55 | 🚆 2E04 | Plymouth → Exeter St. David's Up (S → N) | no show |
| 09:57 | 🚄 1V42 | Derby → Plymouth Down (N → S) | passed |
| 10:02 | 🚆 2R53 | Okehampton → Exeter Central Down (N → S) | approaching |
| 10:11 | 🚄 1C72 | London Paddington → Penzance Down (N → S) | +3 min |
| 10:17 | 🚄 1A78 | Penzance → London Paddington Up (S → N) | +1 min |
| 10:20 | 🚆 2B75 | Exeter Central → Barnstaple Up (S → N) | active |
| 10:24 | 🚆 2C18 | Exeter St. David's → Penzance Down (N → S) | active |
| 10:28 | 🚄 1S45 | Plymouth → Edinburgh Up (S → N) | on time |
| 10:29 | 🚆 2C67 | Cardiff Central → Exeter St. David's Down (N → S) | +2 min |
On today’s timetable, Red Cow crossing is predicted to be closed for about 10 h 34 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 102 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 17 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: 13.2 min (09:24–09:37, 4 trains), 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 08:30–09:30 in the morning and around 14:25–15:25 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
The crossing is on Station Road in Exeter, Devon, next to Exeter St Davids station.
Red Cow is a CCTV-monitored manual barrier crossing (CCTV) on the Bruton–Exeter St. David's line (Western route · ELR MLN1). 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.
We score this page against what actually happened on the railway: over the last 7 days that covered 1,186 trains through this crossing.
98.9% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.1% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±25s (9 in 10 within 118s). This scores when trains pass: barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.