User-worked with stop lights level crossing on the Central route (ELR DCL).
| 01:30 | 4O97 | 🚛 | LEEDFLT → SOTOMCT | → from Banbury | no show |
| 01:36 | 4O67 | 🚛 | TRFDEUT → SOTOEWS | → from Banbury | -46 min |
| 01:43 | 5U79 | 🚃 | OXFD → BNBRDPT | ← from Oxford | active |
On today’s timetable, Somerton crossing is predicted to be closed for about 1 h 49 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 75 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: 0.7 min (00:40–00:40, 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 10:50–11:50 in the morning and around 19:14–20:14 in the evening. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Somerton is a user-worked with stop lights crossing (UWCMSL) on the Oxford–Banbury line (Central route · ELR DCL). 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 8 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.0% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±19s (9 in 10 within 86s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.