User-worked with stop lights level crossing on the Wessex route (ELR RDG1).
| 02:06 | 3Z14 | 🚧 | EFNGSHD → EFNGSHD | ← from Ascot | approaching |
On today’s timetable, Smiths crossing is predicted to be closed for about 3 h 49 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 120 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 2 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: 0.6 min (23:59–00:00, 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 08:47–09:47 in the morning and around 13:57–14:57 in the middle of the day. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Smiths is a user-worked with stop lights crossing (UWCMSL) on the Ascot–Reading Platforms 4A/4B line (Wessex route · ELR RDG1). 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 255 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 98.5% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±50s (9 in 10 within 99s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.