Manually-controlled barrier with obstacle detection level crossing on the North West route (ELR MVN2).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 02:15 | 🚄 1T03 | Manchester Airport → Huddersfield Down (SW → NE) | standing 44 min |
On today’s timetable, Smithy Bridge crossing is predicted to be closed for about 8 h 46 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 117 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 9 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 (00:16–00:19, 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 06:38–07:38 in the morning and around 14:41–15:41 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Smithy Bridge is a manually-controlled barrier with obstacle detection crossing (MCBOD) on the Rochdale–Todmorden line (North West route · ELR MVN2). An obstacle-detection system scans the crossing and confirms it is clear before the barriers lower automatically. 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 1,095 trains through this crossing.
99.9% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.8% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±6s (9 in 10 within 125s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.