Miniature warning light level crossing on the North West route (ELR WBS3).
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On today’s timetable, Shaws UWCmwl crossing is predicted to be closed for about 4 h 18 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 60 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 8 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 (00:02–00:05, 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 06:28–07:28 in the morning and around 12:42–13:42 in the middle of the day. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Shaws UWCmwl is a miniature warning light crossing (MWLG) on the Wigan Wallgate C.S.–Southport line (North West route · ELR WBS3). 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 75 trains through this crossing.
93.3% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 98.2% of the warnings we could verify came true.