Manually-controlled barrier level crossing on the North West route (ELR FHR6).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 07:25 | 🚄 1B16 | Blackpool North → York Down (NW → SE) | approaching |
| 07:40 | 🚆 2K63 | Blackburn → Headbolt Lane Down (NW → SE) | active |
| 07:45 | 🚆 2N91 | Wigan Wallgate → Blackburn Up (SE → NW) | on time |
| 07:48 | 🚛 6E78 | Leyland Sidings GBRF → Doncaster Down Decoy GBRF Down (NW → SE) | no show |
On today’s timetable, Towneley crossing is predicted to be closed for about 4 h 16 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 52 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 7 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 (06:21–06:25, 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 06:00–07:00 in the morning and around 12:36–13:36 in the middle of the day. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Towneley is a manually-controlled barrier crossing (MCB/MB) on the Blackburn–Hebden Bridge line (North West route · ELR FHR6). A signaller monitors the crossing, confirms it is clear, and lowers the barriers ahead of each train. 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 484 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 100.0% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±2s (9 in 10 within 6s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.