Manually-controlled barrier level crossing on the North West route (ELR FCO).
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On today’s timetable, Rufford Station crossing is predicted to be closed for about 2 h 24 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 32 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 09:27–10:27 in the morning and around 20:28–21:28 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Rufford Station is a manually-controlled barrier crossing (MCB/MB) on the Ormskirk–Preston line (North West route · ELR FCO). 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.
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