CCTV-monitored manual barrier level crossing on the Western route (ELR MLN1).
| 01:12 | 2C66 | 🚆 | BRSTLTM → EXETRSD | ← from Gillingham (Dorset) | -4 min |
| 01:29 | 1A50 | 🚄 | PENZNCE → PADTON | → from Exeter St. David's | +22 min |
On today’s timetable, Red Cow crossing is predicted to be closed for about 10 h 26 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 87 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 29 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 (00:34–00:37, 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 10:45–11:45 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.
Red Cow is a cctv-monitored manual barrier crossing (CCTV) on the Gillingham (Dorset)–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 1,217 trains through this crossing.
99.2% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 96.4% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±45s (9 in 10 within 246s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.