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.
| 16:44 | 🚄 1V56 | Glasgow Central High Level → Plymouth Down (N → S) | on time |
| 17:00 | 🚆 2R60 | Okehampton → Exeter Central Down (N → S) | approaching |
| 17:04 | 🚄 1C85 | London Paddington → Paignton Down (N → S) | +7 min |
| 17:05 | 🚛 6C10 | Burngullow E.C.C. → Exeter Riverside N.Y. Up (S → N) | no show |
| 17:15 | 🚄 1A92 | Penzance → London Paddington Up (S → N) | -1 min |
| 17:19 | 🚄 1C86 | London Paddington → Penzance Down (N → S) | +6 min |
| 17:21 | 🚆 2B82 | Exeter Central → Barnstaple Up (S → N) | active |
| 17:24 | 🚃 5Z48 | Exeter St. David's → Plymouth Down (N → S) | active |
| 17:26 | 🚛 6M53 | Parkandillack → Bescot Engineers Sdgs Up (S → N) | no show |
On today’s timetable, Red Cow crossing is predicted to be closed for about 10 h 46 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 104 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: 11.3 min (15:17–15:28, 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 19:00–20:00 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
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 1,208 trains through this crossing.
99.2% 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 ±24s (9 in 10 within 112s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.