Sarnau level crossing

CCTV-monitored manual barrier level crossing on the Wales route (ELR SWM2).

predicted
OPEN
for 21 min

Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.

next: 🚧 in 25 min · 8 min late

Next 30 min

OPEN 02:11–02:32 21m
CLOSED 02:32–02:36 5m
OPEN 02:36–04:11+ 1h+
Under the hood
Mon 07 Sep · 02:11
Today Tomorrow

Trains in window

02:36 🚧 6F03 Westbury Down T.C.Clunderwen Down (E → W) +8 min
🚧Engineering
now 02:11:13 · 68 avg · 1 in window
live observation: 1 up · 0 down
timetable cif full+upd 2026-09-06..2026-09-08
fetched 02:08:15
trust 48,282 active · 21,043 delays · 2,870 cancelled · 0 reconnects
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About this crossing

How often it closes

On today’s timetable, Sarnau crossing is predicted to be closed for about 3 h 13 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 47 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 5 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 (00:28–00:32, 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.

Worst times to cross today

Closures cluster around 09:59–10:59 in the morning and around 15:47–16:47 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.

About this crossing

Sarnau is a cctv-monitored manual barrier crossing (CCTV) on the Carmarthen–Whitland line (Wales route · ELR SWM2). 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.

How accurate is this forecast?

We score this page against what actually happened on the railway — over the last 7 days that covered 196 trains through this crossing.

100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.2% of the warnings we could verify came true.

Typical timing error was ±13s (9 in 10 within 117s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.

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