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.
| 07:13 | 🚄 1J03 | Leeds → Manchester Victoria Up (NE → SW) | +3 min |
| 07:13 | 🚄 1J02 | Manchester Victoria → Leeds Down (SW → NE) | +1 min |
| 07:21 | 🚆 2N91 | Wigan Wallgate → Blackburn Down (SW → NE) | passed |
| 07:26 | 🚆 2K62 | Blackburn → Headbolt Lane Up (NE → SW) | approaching |
| 07:30 | 🚆 2I04 | Leeds → Wigan Wallgate Up (NE → SW) | on time |
| 07:48 | 🚄 1D71 | Leeds → Chester Up (NE → SW) | +5 min |
| 07:50 | 🚄 1E50 | Chester → Leeds Down (SW → NE) | +13 min |
On today’s timetable, Smithy Bridge crossing is predicted to be closed for about 8 h 43 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: 7.0 min (00:18–00:25, 2 trains), 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.
The crossing is on Smithybridge Road in Smithy Bridge, Greater Manchester, next to the station.
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 1,245 trains through this crossing.
99.9% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.5% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±9s (9 in 10 within 349s). This scores when trains pass: barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.