CCTV-monitored manual barrier level crossing on the West Coast South route (ELR BBM).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 06:35 | 🚆 2S02 | Bedford → Bletchley Up (NE → SW) | on time |
| 06:37 | 🚆 2S03 | Bletchley → Bedford Down (SW → NE) | passed |
| 07:01 | 🚛 6X13 | Dollands Moor Sdgs → Toton North Yard Down (SW → NE) | cancelled |
On today’s timetable, Ridgmont crossing is predicted to be closed for about 2 h 31 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 26 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 7 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: 6.9 min (06:30–06:37, 2 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 09:34–10:34 in the morning and around 19:06–20:06 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Ridgmont is a cctv-monitored manual barrier crossing (CCTV) on the Bletchley–Lidlington line (West Coast South route · ELR BBM). 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 215 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.